233: My Wife Is a LaserDisc Guy

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🗓️ 5 May 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

We're embarking on a two-part rundown of home video formats this week, with part one focusing on analog video up through the mid-1990s and covering biggies like VHS and LaserDisc, plus also-rans like Betamax, Video8, and the truly strange CED. Tune in for plenty of fun trivia, like myths and misconceptions about the first major format war, Sony's ahead-of-its-time analog HD video system, why a video format patterned after a record player isn't a great idea, and a bunch more! (There are some drops in Brad's recording this week due to an infestation of audio gremlins which we're working to exterminate. Apologies for any inconvenience.)

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0:00.0	Okay, something magical has happened in Mr. Land.
0:02.4	Ooh, I love magical stuff.
0:04.3	Let me guess.
0:05.3	If you send a note and a self-addressed stamped envelope, then the Mr. People will send you a free mister of your choice with your choice of add-ons for the next 10 days only.
0:17.6	Self-addressed stamped envelope is not a phrase I've heard since probably the mid-90s. You don't work in the realm of days only. Self-addressed, stamped envelope is not a phrase I've heard since probably
0:21.4	the mid-90s. You don't work in the realm of S-A-S-E's anymore? Not buying a lot of cereal. It gives
0:28.5	away action figures anymore. You didn't have to set, I guess you did have to send a, you have to
0:33.1	send a sassy for those sometimes. Yeah, well, maybe not for packaged goods.
0:38.3	What was the best action figure you got for free?
0:41.5	Oh, I don't know if I ever sent off or anything.
0:43.1	I probably did.
0:44.0	I got a yak face from Return of the Jedi.
0:47.0	Yakface.
0:47.8	Yeah, he was one of the Jabba's Palace aliens.
0:51.2	I got him.
0:51.8	I got an emperor, I think.
0:53.4	Jackface.com serving Star Wars Collect worldwide says, oh, there's way too many action
0:58.9	figures in here.
0:59.9	Anyway.
1:00.1	There were a ton that you could mail off for.
1:01.8	Yeah.
1:02.1	Like BobaFet was a mail-off one at first.
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