I always thought CEDs looked so cool. What I really want to see is how they're created though, and what they'd sound like on a turntable...
The Doomed Effort to Make Videos Go Vinyl
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Re: The Doomed Effort to Make Videos Go Vinyl
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eh, I think the success of the DVD and now Blu-ray formats show recording isn't essential. As the article notes, this format, and I'll note another format in Japan using a stylus over a bunch of holes, failed in the face of VHS and Laserdiscs. Cassettes won in part because they were a lot smaller and could eventually play stereo, and 8-track tapes are a terrible, fragile kludge (my family used to make them back when…
I would guess that recording was essential for VHS's success. By the time DVD became successful, ca. 2000, there was a infrastructure of video rentals available and hard disk recording of movies became possible/was just around the corner. So the killer app for VHS was recoding TV, while the killer app for DvD was rentals and somewhat ambitious home video creators would go digital.
I guess it depends on how much of a success you consider Laserdisc to be. It wasn't a blowout success like DVD, but it was a healthy niche.
I got the strong impression that DVDs were sell-through, a market I think Disney pioneered. So maybe video rental wasn't so important for DVDs, but I don't know.
You are of course right that recording was a killer app for VHS, lots of time shifting ... although, hasn't VHS died without most people replacing it with recording to hard disks? I'm not sure TiVo got big enough, but I don't know.
As brudgers points out in his reply in this subthread, recording got big enough to worry the content holders such that they imposed DRM on DVDs and Blu-ray, but it's not clear their fears are realistic. Certainly the cracking of DVD DRM didn't stop production of them.
Re: The Doomed Effort to Make Videos Go Vinyl
#13Video on audio tapes was a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL-2000