What's your favorite obsolete video format?

for me is beta

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I still have my laserdisc player set up

Formerly Applechuck

Can’t believe they thought it would catch on

holdin a gameboy disc there lil fella?

Its the only format to watch Star Wars on

For me, it's VHD.

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>literally call yourself a beta and expect to win
what were they thinking?

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Any good laserdisc only releases, or content that never made it to DVD?

>Gba video. 10fps at 112p, great times
still looks better than that phantom menace trailer I streamed on realmedia player

Star Wars Original Trilogy Theatrical Versions

for me, it's bluray

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Sony didn't, it's just their status quo as proprietary jewry with portables

>tfw i had that external HD-DVD player for my Xbox 360

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For yours truly, it's mini DVD

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hahahahaha retard

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no

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They were a cute.

I bought one of these from a yard sale with a stack of films for $20 when i was a kid thought it was a laser disk. still have Friday the 13th for it but dont have a player anymore

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>my gamecube copy of Prince of Persia has mold growing on it

feels bad man.

youtube

psp was shit garbage

B-BLUERAY IS 2SLOW
NOBODY WILL WANT TO INSTALL GAMES THATS A GIMMICK
J-JUST PUT IT ON MORE DISKS HAHA
HD-DVD IS FASTER B-BAKA

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bog and sexy and smooth with great packaging. dvd ain't the same, I got about 200 from my uncle

Um, what?

Aren't those pretty rare nowadays? Hang on to it user, might be worth something in a few years.

for myself? its gameboy advance cartridges
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The video player on the PSP was the shit.
Slow-mo, loop A to B, closed captions, it seemed incredibly sophisticated to 2005 era me.

Great for porn too, downloading straight from the internet browser was also super cool.

Ah yes well done Nintendo, amazing idea

I bought a player last year because there's loads of those old computer animation compilations that haven't been released on DVD.

Juice box media player

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I bought both a dead leaves and a cowboy bebop volume 1 umd's. Mostly for novelty, i hope the quality isn't shit

Ah-bloo-hoo-hooh!
AH-BLAH-BLAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This, I remember my mum got me the dark knight thinking it was a game, I was mad at first but I still watched it like 5 times.

There's a Tex Avery animation boxset which only got released on Laserdisc

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The only home formats of Song of the South ever released were on VHS in Europe and Laserdisc in Japan

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It was released on DVD in 2006.
And now we have unofficial releases that surpass it in every way.

for me its those gameboy cartridges that had like 5 episodes of spongebob on them in 120p

Does UHD Blu Ray count?

Niche format != Obsolete format

This has always intrigued me. Essentially they were vinyl records read by a needle but the grooves were much smaller resulting in greater density. Apparently you could also store sound on it like a record too. Much larger capacity for it. Movies came in caddies to protect discs from scratches

>Two thumbs way up

Not him but my GameCube copy of Mario Sunshine also has what looks like mold on it. But my games always had a lot of dry cum on them because my younger brother had a really bad chronic masturbation habit and got it all over everything in the room where our games and computer were.

I doubt it would play anymore if he had it. those discs had an absurd defect rate.

Quality is terrible though even for a laserdisc. BBC screened a standard def version over a decade ago that was used to source the PAL VHS and looks better than the LD. It’s PAL though. The laserdisc version is essentially VHS quality

>practically never skipped
>recordable
>portable
>nearly impossible to scratch
The MiniDisc should have been the go-to format after audio cassettes were phased out. CDs were a mistake

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i thought the xbox 360 had blu-ray? wtf

Does anyone remember HDDVD

There's also a Hong Kong Laserdisc which is the one that commands the insanely high prices because unlike the Japanese LD, it has no subtitles at all, not even during the songs, which makes it an ideal source for a raw capture.

You think 100 dollars for the JP LD is a lot? Try four grand.

That was PS3, Sony invented Blu Rays and Microsoft backed HD-DVD, Blu Ray won because

1) They had porn
2) You didn't have to buy an add-on for the console to play them

Thanks YIFY!

lol

all those animes that you would find in cd bins at computer fares

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Japan had HD movies on LaserDisc all the way back in 1993.

the glue holding the layers together dissipated after 3-4 year on most of these

>tfw being 10 and spending a comfy weekend marathoning Pokemon: Indigo League and Orange Islands on VCD

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as for me?

plastic little
legend of the overfiend

12 year old me with basically hentai in a dial up world, the cd's came with peoples shitty websites as a selling point

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D-VHS, obviously

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That is such a comfy video.

the players cost to much and mp3 and napster took over

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Why are obsolete media formats so comfy? I could read about them for hours.

>1:43

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Same, when the UMD disk player stopped working it was still useful for watching/downloading movies and porn. it was also a great mobile shit posting machine

Came to post this. Had one with the spongebob episode about April fools and a fairly odd parents one that I barely remember.

>Discs are supplied in a vacuum-sealed package and after opening the bonding resin holding the inner and outer layers together reacts to oxygen and turns from clear to black in about 48 hours

Times where different back then. Literal wasting resources

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I fucking love it, what a decadent age we live in.

came here to post this.
Based sony shitshow poster

>mfw that twist

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this can't be real

>manlytears holds a gamecube disc

It's real, I've read about it

It's also probably why it failed so hard.

I had this bigass machine that I'd put this big square into to watch a short movie. I had benji and some charlie brown stuff. There were others but I don't remember what they were

I've seen them before in blockbuster. 5 bux was too much for a rental like that though. new releases back then were at most 3 dollars in my area which was still a lot.

my favorite placed had a 5-5-5 deal. 5 movies 5 days 5 dollars. even applied to games. shit was cash for a poorfag

Should have come up with a snappier name to appeal to the plebs. If they called it V2K I bet it would have sold better.

I owned this

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The version of Gunbuster with the full-frontal scene

based but bullshit, no gameboy cart could hold that many eps: 2 max

There were 3 Spongebob cartridges and each had 4 episodes. You could get full movies on them, 4 20 minute episodes of cartoons is no problem.

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what the fuck? I had a cart that I swear only had one spongekino and one episode of some other show. maybe I got ripped off. I had it for my gameboy advance so maybe those versions had lower capacity

it was the one with KRUSTY KRAB PIZZA so that’s all I needed though

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Woah, a glitch in the Matrix.

I don't understand how they thought plebs would ever accept buying a DVD that basically self-destructed.

Like, I get it in theory. It's a limited time rental that you just threw away instead of returning. But people were conditioned to attribute value to physical media so making an intentionally worthless variation was always going to rustle peoples' jimmies even if its worthlessness was the whole point.

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That would have been pic related, your mind probably blocked out Rugrats All Grown Up because nobody likes that trash, especially next to Spongekino and Fairly Odd Kino.

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cant believe i had to scroll this far down

Well mini-discs were very popular in Japan for a long time at least.

pretty pissed at teenage me for trading them all in desu

>he's not a cartrivision chad

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>imagine being the type of person who looks forward to this

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so all you had to do was turn your den into a vacuum to watch them indefinitely

When will you manlets fucking learn?

damn that is hi res as fuck, i suppose the monitor would bethe limitation witht his tech

>shit quality
>Same episodes
>Already had a VHS player and TV's installed in my car
You can already imagine the insincere "t-thanks, grandma" that I had to muster up when I got one of these for Christmas.

i had ONE movie for my psp back in the day, cost me $25, watched it over and over again...

it was the bench warmers. I figured out how to load .mp4s onto after that

Betacam won in the pro space though.

I appreciated this

I had a sin city and superbad umd for my PSP. God that PSP got me through a lot of hard times as a kid

>Recently cleaned out a storage locker of mine from years ago
>Found my old Mini Disk player
>O shi I remember this from high school years ago
>Nostalgia hits
>Decide to give them a listen
>Still listen to every song on them
>Matter of fact I listened to a couple of them earlier that day
>MFW I haven't changed musical tastes since high school

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For me, it's HitClips

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kek

actually it wasn't the cost of the player they were no more expensive than most cd players. the problem was it was another sony proprietary format and sony refused to allow mp3 mini disc players to use minidisc as data discs instead of just audio.

If Sony hadn't been dicks about it they would've been the go to format for mp3 players. By the time they finally did adopt the data disc option with mp3 support the rio had already come out and the ipod was right around the corner. Fucking Sony kills another of their formats again over their own stupidity.

the 90s really were the best decade

lel I loved this shit even though I had a CD player. The novelty was just too great. Annoyed the shit out of my parents and siblings singing the same 30 sec of a song on repeat non stop for hours on road trips.

there needs to be a post apocalyptic movie where a guy uses hitclips for his music in the future cause thats all that survived.

Some guy wanted to record my band on this back in the day.

why? is it true that this format captures dna so you replicate the singers in the lab elsewhere?

I loved my minidisc player in high school. I was a massive weeb and only got it because of its popularity in Japan. Most people in my school had first and second generation iPods or discmans.

The PSP is one of my favourite handhelds of all time.
Not only was it ahead of it's time for being a multimedia device but the technology in it was really amazing, especially for 2004 (it almost handled PS2-tier graphics and can play PS1 games almost perfectly).
It also had a ton of great games such as Portable Ops, Crisis Core, Dissidia and Peace Walker.
I had a ton of UMD Video discs there such as The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Advent Children, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and a whole lot more.

>tfw VCD is still going on in Asia but some studios discontinued it
>Disney's last VCD was The Force Awakens
>Studio Ghibli's last VCD was Arrietty
>Fox's last live action VCD was (500) Days of Summer (they still do VCDs for animated films and family films)

i can just imagine japanese girls shoving these in their panties in the 90's. fucking crazy.

weird how the psp failed and sony stopped making handhelds. everyone thought nintendo would die out but it turns out that nope.

What did he mean by this?

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Wait, wait, wait. There were JAV movies on UMD???? Literally porn on a video game console?

It probably has to do with the DS being more casual-friendly (it became the highest-grossing handheld) and Western third-parties focusing more on the DS and home consoles.
In Japan, however, the PSP was really huge but as we all know, Sony wanted to focus on the Western audience instead.
The PSP was worth it for Crisis Core, Portable Ops and Peace Walker (at least until it had the HD Edition treatment) alone.

UMD Videos weren't regulated by CERO/Sony, so they were allowed to make porn for the PSP, as long as it's video-only.

I still play my PSP I bought off craigslist almost 10 years ago

Fucking boomers literally making useless trash

Japan has all sorts of cool stuff

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What was the fucking point of that? Didn't even played the whole song.
Jesus, it feels like every kind of shitty product could get aproval in the 90's

Now that's something cool that deserves to be a collection.
you are a retard for losing your collection

They were still struggling with naming conventions in general. For example, the first laserdisc player was called Magnavision, but the discs were called Discovision, and then when third party players came out, they had to call themselves Laservision. Likewise, Video 2000 was actually what the decks were called, the actual media was called VCC (Video Compact Cassette). Confused? So was everyone else.

Cool. What games do you have for it?
I am currently replaying Peace Walker and I love the Transfarring feature it has where you can transfer save data between the PSP version and the HD Edition on PS3.
The Japanese release of Peace Walker: HD Edition on PS3 even had a download code for the PSP version.

fucking newfag summer children....

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I like to buy my movies on vinyl.

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Underrated

based 'cube bro

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And to think people were crying when that format died fucking kek