DiscoVision bumpers and dead side

This is a clip with two versions of the DiscoVision bumper, one without the copyright and the other with.
This also contains the end of side bumper, side 2 bumper, a static pattern bumper found in the DiscoVision title "The Choirboys", and the Disco-Vision blue screen dead side.

[@danielslade9485]

The spinning spirograph was likely an animation they made after making the animated logo.

[@fixman88]

I really like watching the spinning snowflake at the beginning! I dragged the scrubber and caught a square with lines drawn through it and a star with a small star and lines going to it; I think I also saw a triangle! I'm sure on the actual disc you could use frame-by-frame advance and see everything (assuming the disc was CAV).

[@Musicradio77Network]

These bumpers were taken from the first batch of Disney films were released on Laserdiscs in 1978 under MCA's DiscoVision such as "At Home With Donald Duck", "On Vacation With Mickey and Friends", "Coyote's Lament", "Kidnapped", "The Misadventures of Chip & Dale", "Kids Is Kids", and others. This was before Walt Disney Home Video was started 2 years later in 1980 with the very first home video release of "Pete's Dragon".

[@betamax52]

The Discovision music was also used by the british company CIC Video in the early 80s, over their warning screen.

[@MemeMeme-to4ht]

Can we just talk about how beautiful the music is?

[@danielslade9485]

Sounds like something straight from either the 1930s or 1960s.

[@ChuckD79]

I agree...so classy/majestic, as if to signify that this was intended to be a very special home viewing experience!

[@cessnaace]

Being the owner of several DiscoVision discs, I've seen these, although the beginning of the intro is usually clipped. STAY AWESOME! :)

[@turtlecatpurrz]

What made the "DiscoVision Discs problematic on certain laser disc players? The history of this stuff fascinates me, but I don't know anything. Also thanks for posting these. What fun.

[@RyanSchweitzer77]

@Watcher3223 "The need for a clean room environment was identified by engineers but, in an effort to keep manufacturing costs low, was never implemented by MCA." I always wondered why they were so lax as far as keeping the manufacturing environment clean, I always assumed that it was something they hadn't realized to do, considering the infancy of the format then....

[@dannytovar138]

1:32 - 1:46 discovision.exe has stopped working, LOL

[@jadsi]

No sleep tonight 😨

[@RyanSchweitzer77]

@Watcher3223 Yes, I heard someone mention on the internet somewhere that the laserdisc was basically the Edison Cylinder of optical formats. It definitely put laser-read optical storage technology on the map....

[@tarahjicheatham2141]

The music gives me future funk vibes

[@Jac2Mac]

They should have done a version of this logo for MCA Videocassette back in 1980 instead of the boring one, don't you think so?

[@stewartlynch1284]

The animated spirographs look like some foreign TV station's ident.

[@TheMediaHoarder]

@Watcher3223 The more modern players skip over the opening logo on DiscoVision discs and the side bumpers, since the frames don't start numbering til they're done. I have a couple discs that let you scan all the way to the beginning anyways.

[@TheMediaHoarder]

And I now have the Pioneer service remote which will let you view any part of any disc!

[@gregorkrause]

0:04-1:46 cool #spyrograph like designs.

[@angelpichu1]

@Watcher3223 don't forget the fact that the turtle is really cute!

[@JeterSwisherFan88]

I noticed the closing DiscoVision bumper has darker texture than the opening one.

[@JeterSwisherFan88]

I noticed the slightly different texture between the opening and closing bumpers.

[@Swampert384]

I read somewhere that many early discs could have hair, dead bugs, etc. trapped in the discs because they didn't press them in "Clean Rooms". Is this correct?

[@marioalexanderski9598]

If that's true, the decomposition of the bug corpses may have contributed to the faster degradation and rot of the early MCA Discovision discs.

[@Watcher3223]

@@marioalexanderski9598 These two videos pretty much show you the difference between how MCA approached disc replication and pretty much everyone else, starting with Pioneer. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pInGemSHpKmDqrM kzbin.info/www/bejne/noimYnqvnpdphqM

[@generalBlasto]

Do you remember the dead side one with the turtle on it's back?

[@und4287]

That was on Laserdiscs.

[@Joyousmicor]

@@und4287 On LaserDiscs, made by Pioneer

[@thepirategamerboy12]

So, my CLD-V2600 will probably miss the spiral animation, but it will play the part with the logo and music?

[@CrowTRobot-ni7zu]

thepirategamerboy12 Maybe. It depends on the disc. I have the same model player, and the one discovision era disc I have has frame 0 encoded after the opening animation ends, so you don’t see it at all.

[@zookeeper2872]

Was this spiral animation and disco Vision logo made by Pixar? But seriously how the heck did they make that back then?

[@danielslade9485]

I think it was made by MCA with non-video Scanimate effects that were later stored on film and that film was taped on the disc.

[@KelvintoKind3]

Does a DiscoVision disc play on your DVL-700 flawlessly?

[@FlashMaster659]

the first half of the logo reminds me of the 1962 nbc laramie peacock

[@RMStudios2021]

1:05 Star

[@everyonelovesbutters]

VERY impressive site mate.. keep up the good work.. would love to see more info about the original disco vision,, have u seen the leonard nimoy vid, with the talking rock?

[@kargaroc386]

he means like record the audio alone, and make it as a WAV or AIFF file.

[@princessdaisysvideoheap3710]

You didn't record the Side 3, 4 or 5 bumpers.

[@Watcher3223]

Yes, but it wasn't really necessary to; you get the idea of what it would look with all the other numbers with the side 2 bumper, though I probably should have just for the sake of completion.

[@shuleichannel2448]

0:11 Star!

[@VectorOmega]

Is the spirograph animation here some kind of loading screen/animation?

[@somedeerboi]

VectorOmega No. It's the indicator that the side is over.

[@und4287]

It's the end-of-side and start-of-side-2 indicator. For more capacity and structural integrity, the discs had 2 sides

[@phsycospacezilla]

Do you have a video of a discvision title played on a non Discovision player? im curious as to what it looks like as I heard it skips the word crawl.

[@und4287]

The bumpers start in the middle in that case.

[@everyonelovesbutters]

lol.. on the same site,,, not feeling very clever atm,, yeh i checked out that vid like jan this year i think. Thank you for contributing so much to my education of ced/ld/and VHD mate.

[@randalltonbrewster]

WHAT TURTLE IS EVERYONE TALKING ABOUT!? >:(

[@Watcher3223]

Pioneer used a graphic of a turtle on its back along with a message indicating that the other side of the disc contains program material. This was used on discs that Pioneer mastered and manufactured where the content was only on one side. The following link is an example. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3WthaaomdSdfZI

[@kargaroc386]

but they are loss-less.

[@Swampert384]

What's the point of making something like this if most systems just skip over it?

[@tamacat2001]

ForrestTheBoar The same is true for logos on VHS tapes too.

[@TheMediaHoarder]

The earlier players didn’t skip over it.

[@TheRobert2254]

predasisser to the cd player and dvd player

[@RMStudios2021]

0:11 1:05

[@firefish4418]

HP,

[@firefish4418]

J,,,,