LaserDisc

1978-2001

The LaserDisc was released just a few years after the hugely popular video cassette recorders. This futuristic media format offered much better video quality than the VCR. However, there were many disadvantages: the discs were heavy, fragile and non-recordable, and the players were expensive and noisy. The LaserDiscs also had to be turned over in the middle of a film because they only had 60 minutes of video per side.

Additional info:

Wikipedia

Medium - Why the Futuristic LaserDisc Failed

Dead Media Archive - Laserdisc

Leonard Nimoy better known as Star Trek's Spock presents the future of video:

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