this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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BlueRay came out in 2006, there are Teens that have probably never seen a CD or DVD.
Blockbuster died around 2010, apple stopped shipping optical drives in the last of their computers around 2013, Streaming became the norm, there might be teens that haven't used "Discs" for video and have streamed everything.
Got one living with me who falls into this category. She about lost her mind when I showed her a laser disc; thought it was some kind of special record. Yes, that's the world we live in, now: kids collect records and cassettes, but have never seen a blu-ray.
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I mean technically it's kind of like a laser record haha
Even more so when you realize they aren't even digital, they use analog NTSC, PAL signal modulation / encoding.
Wait, they do? I always assumed they were digital..
Edit: well damn yeah they're just shiny records.. from Wikipedia "The surface of the disc is covered with small holes that are read by a laser."
Well, there was something like that. CED: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc