{"id":1116,"date":"2014-01-11T18:42:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T18:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2014-01-11T18:44:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T18:44:40","slug":"so-for-now-dont-give-up-your-vcr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;So for now, don&#8217;t give up your VCR&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Laserdisc_a.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1117\" alt=\"Laserdisc_a\" src=\"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Laserdisc_a.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1992, Buffalo&#8217;s WGRZ aired a piece on the return of the laserdisc which had won a small war against rival disc format <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc\" target=\"_blank\">CED<\/a>, but lost out to VHS and Betamax because of the latter&#8217;s recording capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>With material sourced from Consumers Reports, the news piece goes through laserdisc&#8217;s pros &amp; cons, but suggests it may not be the new big thing. History proved them right &#8211; it didn&#8217;t exceed tape because of an inability to record and the higher prices of discs &#8211; but laserdisc is directly responsible for cultivating and refining the concept of special editions, and was the first real push to present films with robust audio, and in widescreen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZOJ5h0EC9Nc\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2001 I remember we had a demo, if you will, for complainers of &#8216;those annoying black bars.&#8217; Like a card, when opened it, you saw a mounted widescreen image from James Cameron&#8217;s <strong>The Abyss<\/strong> (1989), and when the card was closed, the matted border re-framed the image to full screen, chopping off the picture to a relative square.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how a few at a time learned the pros of letterboxing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Back in 1992, Buffalo&#8217;s WGRZ aired a piece on the return of the laserdisc which had won a small war against rival disc format CED, but lost out to VHS and Betamax because of the latter&#8217;s recording capabilities. With material sourced from Consumers Reports, the news piece goes through laserdisc&#8217;s pros &amp; cons, but suggests it may not be the new big thing. History proved them right &#8211; it didn&#8217;t exceed tape because of an inability to record and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[221,35],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-pick","tag-laserdisc","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}