About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 75. Chapters: Royal Ulster Constabulary, Laserdisc, Trojan Room coffee pot, WAAKE-UP!, Blyth Power Station, American Comedy Awards, Memorial Stadium, Johnie's Broiler, Lakehurst Mall, First Union Corporation, Rawlings government, Billy's Topless, Cabinet of Poul Nyrup Rasmussen IV, Rotorua Branch, British Railways Board, Windows on the World, Dick Simon Racing, Weiner's, Caravan of Dreams, PowWow, Paradox Press, Canada-United States Automotive Products Agreement, UnCommonCon, Main Mall, Carolina Circle Mall, London Greenpeace, Florida Board of Regents, Agnes, Tampa Bay Center, St. Mary's Parish, Bridgeton, Missouri, Scottish Court in the Netherlands, Infoseek, Brown & Wood, Disney's River Country, Portland Speedway, Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work, W. Alton Jones Foundation, Planet Movies by AMC, 6 World Trade Center, Daily Radar, Greenwich District Hospital, Playoffs to the Norwegian First Division, McCormack Motorsports, Senate of Senegal, Riley & Scott, Wetlands Preserve, Common Course, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, OK Hotel, Dexter Award, Valley Road Estate, Rotamah Island Bird Observatory, Lansing Engine Plant, Yuen Long Estate, Cleveland Ballet, AT&T at the Movies, Cincinnati Public Theatre, Meighen Demers. 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...
