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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 80. Chapters: Intel 8086, X86, Synclavier, Magnavox Odyssey, TRIPOS, Laserdisc, Phillie Phanatic, Speak & Spell, Action Park, Steyr AUG, Communicating sequential processes, Lego minifigure, Rainbow flag, Technics SL-1200, Bee-Line Bus System, 2-XL, Simon, Original Chicken Sandwich, Nelson's taxonomic arrangement of Adenanthos, 781 series, Roland Jupiter-4, The Sorcerer's Cave, Roland CR-78, Merlin, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Choshi Electric Railway 700 series, Casio FX-502P series, Evian, Cessna 425, Whatchamacallit, ITC Benguiat, Andhra Pradesh Express, Huggies, Meitetsu 100 series, Vigipirate, Reese's Pieces, Coleco Telstar Marksman, Coors Light, Hull Executive, Trapper Keeper, Navjivan Express, MTV-1, Lauren, Electronic Quarterback. Excerpt: The LaserDisc (LD) was a home video disc format, and was the first commercial optical disc storage medium. Initially marketed as Discovision in 1978, the technology was licensed and sold as Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Videodisc, Laservision, Disco-Vision, DiscoVision, and MCA DiscoVision until Pioneer Electronics purchased the majority stake in the format and marketed it as LaserDisc in 1983. While the format itself produced a consistently higher quality image than its rivals, the VHS and Betamax systems, it was poorly received in North America. In Europe and Australia, it also remained largely an obscure format. It was, however, much more popular in Japan and in the more affluent regions of South East Asia, such as Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. Laserdisc was the prevalent rental video medium in Hong Kong during the 1990s. The technology and concepts provided with the Laserdisc would become the forerunner to Compact Discs and DVDs. Laserdisc technology, using a transparent disc, was invented by David Paul Gregg in 1958 (and patented in 1961 and 1990). By 1969, Philips had develop...
