CD Video: The Compact Disc/Laserdisc Hybrid and the Laserdisc Format Relaunch - The Soundtracker

[@AfterBurnerTeirusu]

Gotta love the fire alarm beeping in the background...

[@onceuponanacount]

Learned about disc rot recently, and how it was more prevalent on Laserdiscs. I remembered I had a very unusual format of a Queen concert stashed with my vinyls, mostly because it's Queen and it seemed so unusual that it would have been a shame to not keep it (hey, gifted horse!). When I read the articles about disc rot, I didn't need to see photos before I recognised the same odd darkening happening around said Queen disc. I went to check it today and I realised it was *not* a Laserdisc after all but a CD Video! But the rot is there xD I did a quick search and found your video, which was a very interesting watch! I have no player for my CD Video, so I can't check how damaged the information is, but I will keep on holding on to this little piece of history. It's not every day that something as intriguing and rare as a CD Video comes into your hands for free! Anyway, thanks for the informative video! Learned a lot more than expected haha

[@freakywayne8790]

My TV’s was hooked up to my stereo in the late 80’s on because I bought an Emerson Hi-fi vcr with MTS decoder so I was watching everything that broadcast in stereo in stereo as well as vhs movies.

[@henrypoole]

6:02 That's beautiful! I wonder how they made that art on the outer ring!

[@OfficialSoundtracker]

I love that etching, I've been looking for more discs with holograms on them, and would like to know as well how they managed that, but every time I Google hologram, it brings up either the same technology in a different form or a separate format. My best guess is a laser etching to refract the light in a specific way, but I need to find more info. Hopefully someone out there knows!

[@TheMediaHoarder]

Another pain with PAL laserdiscs is that when they were re-launched with digital sound, the players could not play the analog tracks on older discs so you’d just get silence! I found that out the hard way with one player, tracked down another one that plays both tracks, analog support was added back to later players after complaints. Many of my PAL discs are rotted but I’m just glad I can play them, I have one PAL CDV disc also which is a bit rotted.

[@OfficialSoundtracker]

That is incredible to me. I'm so used to my discs and players being backwards compatible that I'm annoyed with that player on your behalf. I wonder how long it was before word got back around to anyone who could do something g about it, because if thst was the case, I imagine some would have been going to the market to pick up a discounted player a d found out about the disappointment when they got home. And hopefully the rot isn't too severe, I hope you are able to get some more enjoyment out of them.

[@TheMediaHoarder]

@@OfficialSoundtracker I think it was because laserdisc was off the market there for a while and re-tooled with digital sound, so they figured nobody would care about being able to play the older discs. For me the older stuff is always more fun though. I'm glad US players kept backwards compatibility with the old discs, there was a place here that rented them- I got my first player in 1993 and enjoyed renting old discs going back to Discovision. What's really annoyed me is how VHS Hi-Fi machines largely won't play the linear track in stereo. We got our first VCR in 1985, one of the first that could record TV in stereo, and I was pissed when we rented tapes with no Hi-Fi tracks and only being able to play them in mono. As Hi-Fi on VHS had been out only about a year, we could only watch the very newest tapes in stereo. I've since solved that problem but don't take the ability to play linear stereo for granted. I even have a Beta that can play the linear track in stereo which is very rare, only a handful of prerecorded tapes have the linear tracks recorded in stereo; most of them are in mono while checking later VHS tapes those had stereo linear tracks up to the end. (All of the old TV stuff I've uploaded has been played back on stereo-capable equipment whether recorded in stereo or not, except for two obscure old formats I have- Quasar VX and Sanyo V-Cord, which never had stereo at all.)

[@dischiesoda6955]

@@TheMediaHoarder it was because Pal system has more video resolution lines than the american NTSC and needs more bandwidth, so when they put digital audio there were no space to accomodate the old analog sound too...that's why they changed the name, to initially avoid people from believeing they could use old analog lasedriscs too on the new machines or the new cdvideo discs on the old laservision machines

[@sterlinsilver]

Very interesting video! I've never seen one of these in person. all those songs were bangers! Also you should probably change the batteries in your smoke detectors.

[@OfficialSoundtracker]

Thanks, I appreciate it! It's a pretty neat format, but I wish they had had some better quality control. I got lucky with some of the purchases, several of them came in lots and the previous owners had great taste in music! It's funny, that's the second time I've seen this, and I've since changed the batteries in the detectors, which part of the video is the chirping in? I must have glossed over it in editing.

[@sterlinsilver]

@@OfficialSoundtracker the chirping is all through the entire video actually- not enough to make me stop watching the video though!

[@keancv]

An interesting video. I'm uk based. players here played NTSC on local PAL TV. Many USS studios like Disney where NTSC only

[@joepesch240]

I bought Rush's The Big Money CD-V when it was released back in the day. Though I've never played the video portion.

[@OfficialSoundtracker]

Ah, hey Joe! I see you quite a bit in Rush forums on Facebook, glad to see you here. The cdv for the big money is a good press, one of the few thst doesn't have rot, so if you have an LD player, give it a whirl. Also I'm curious, does your copy also have a slight glitch in the audio on Red Sector A live? During the line "a heart that cannot feel" my disc has some digital garble in the audio.

[@tonygroenewoud-powell53]

They were more common in Europe but not that much as everyone was confused by the format and the LD players were not cheap!

[@OfficialSoundtracker]

I gotcha, honestly any time I see any 12" discs with the CD Video brand in the US, everyone just refers to it as a laserdisc because it functions the same. Ebay listings, Facebook listings, if it looks and feels like a laserdisc, it's a laserdisc. It's just odd that despite having a different brand everyone still treats them the same here.

[@jp980-]

😎💿📺

[@strictlysega]

if u plan on watching laserdiscs on your laserdisc player, rmemebering it was an analog video format, the later 90s players absolutely shit over the 80s players ,, cept for 1 or 2 instances. As someone who has fixed way to many laserdisc players my best tip when looking for a player is two things,: 1: autoflip... saves getting up after an hour or sometimes only 20 mins to flip the disc, 2: after 1994, even pioneer hadn't mastered the laserdisc player till then, and players get WAY easier to fix after the 1994 models . fun vid, nice collection of cdv's you have there.. i went down the laserjuke route when it came to music on laserdisc. I also avoid PAL discs like that dude in the doctors coughing up a lung in the waiting room.

[@OfficialSoundtracker]

For sure, I totally get this. I have several players in my collection, most of them do auto flip and it's one of my favorite features. I've been lucky that most of the players I've gotten don't have issues with play back, but I have done a ton of belt replacements. I tend to show off the CLD mostly because it loads quick and the display is great, shows off exactly what the disc is doing when I need to narrate. I haven't done any video quality tests between machines yet but I'm curious what would happen given most of my machines are late 80s and 90s machines. What players have you had to work on? Aw, I would love to hear about that, ive seen a few laserjuke machines but never been able to use one! Do you have a changer cabinet? I've seen a few similar to Laser Karaoke. I haven't been able to play any pal discs but I hear that aside from rot, some of them also have a video frame speedup from the conversion in video signals. I heard something like they play about 4% faster because PAL video has 25 frames a second instead of 24, and that wasn't taken into account for transfers?

[@punknerd9747]

so jealous of the Rush one

[@jameslaidler2152]

They so could have made these double sided like a regular laserdisc. CD Videoon one side, CD on the other. Also, CHANGE YOUR SMOKE DETECTOR BATTERY!!!!!

[@slotec]

I had my VCR hooked up to my stereo,so I could record yo mtv raps and Copy the music to tape,it was mono but it worked.i always had the latest hits 😁

[@OfficialSoundtracker]

Ah, that's awesome! 😁 Curious, do you still have some tapes around?

[@pukalo]

You might want to change the battery in your smoke detector.

[@mateuszorlinski7334]

Ripping the CDV part of the disc is impossible, a ADC converter would be necesary to do that

[@Watcher3223]

Well, you'd just copy the video and audio like you would if you were digitizing playback from a VCR or a LaserDisc player. It's not "ripping," per se, but you would accomplish the intent nonetheless.

[@mateuszorlinski7334]

​@@Watcher3223 What I've ment is ripping the disc in a CD drive. Furthermore, I forgot about the Domesday Duplicator, which rips the analog data stream from the disc. So ripping a CDV is possible, but with a suitable LD player.