Why were LaserDiscs so big?

So you could put your ding-dong through the hole.

They weren't digital, they stored an analog video signal which took up more physical space.

for you

It is like a plate for my egg dinner

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Manlytears?

3m makes everything, because the management was having trouble with the quality of the minerals they could acquire that they needed for the grinding wheels they were then manufacturing.
The management rather ghan giving up, encouraged the workers to innovate, and come up with new products and new uses for the materials they processed.
This created a wide variety of products they could market, limiting setbacks from any one market, due to competition, or other problems.

I unironically collect laserdiscs

so is 3M a cool guy corporation or another evil megasized group that buys out any competiton?

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They are big because the encoding is analog.

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mind posting some more user? that looks based

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>manly tears gamecube collection

What are the odds, just last night I watched this delightfully dated informative video with Leonard Nimoy talking about how Laserdisc works: youtube.com/watch?v=s4pBk3-fduU

3M still makes a lot of stuff in the USA.
This includes abtasives of all different tupes.
adhesives.
Bandages such as Nexcare.
Etc.
They seem to be one of the “Good” IS manufacturers.

I'm well jell

They're great for collecting, even if you don't play them the LP sized coverart is brilliant.