We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Once considered to be a serious player in the physical media market, LaserDiscs have since fallen by the wayside, but they still hold value ...

Back before DVDs, before Blu-ray, before MP3s, and before CDs, there were Laserdiscs. First released way back in 1978, the Laserdisc media format offered high-quality video and laid the foundation for ...

When you think of the home video format of choice in decades past, what comes to mind first? For many, it's the bulky, plastic VHS tapes that dominated video rental store shelves for years. VHS tapes ...

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 ...

The latest format war is all the rage these days as things really start to heat up. Everyone loves to compare it to Beta vs VHS, but what about the last Video Disc format war? No this isn't the first ...

In the early 1980s, the arcade was still the place to play the newest and best video games. Sure, consoles existed, and were just starting to give arcades a run for their money -- and were even ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Before DVDs and streaming, there was the ...

The relentless march of technological development means once cutting edge inventions are continually being relegated to the scrapheap, or at least the musty bottom drawer. From what might have been to ...

Here in the year 2025, it’s not every day that a classic gaming console from the 20th century becomes playable via emulation for the first time. But that’s just what happened last week with the ...