The first laser videodisc players cost $1,000. The first CD players cost $1,000. The cost of viewing near-perfect pictures and listening to stunning sound was a steep $2,000. Then Pioneer, savior of ...

When the hit movie ”Ghost” is released for home viewing on March 22, it will sell for about $100 on tape videocassette and about $29.95 on laser videodisc. That`s an amazing difference, the laserdisc ...

The home-video landscape sure has changed. No one still buys discs, right? Well, wrong — mostly. A surge in the sales of Blu-ray discs actually pushed home-entertainment spending up in the third ...

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Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. In an alternate universe, movie buffs have Citizen Kane on vinyl. In that ...

This year is shaping up to be a year of technology battles-Microsoft vs. Google, iPhone vs. Android-but just last month, we saw the end to a momentous tech showdown. On Feb. 19, the high-definition ...