Personal Devices · Recorded milestone
LaserDisc player
Recorded year1978
A player reads films from a shiny disc with a laser, giving sharper pictures and sound than videotape and jumping straight to any scene.
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- Compact discRecorded · 1982enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.