Leonard Nimoy wasn’t only Spock on Star Trek. He was a celebrated stage actor and director of many successful films like Three Men and a Baby. But he would also willingly cash in on his good name as a ...

Pioneer announced this week that it was halting the production of its line of Laserdisc players. If you are shocked that the electronics giant was still making Laserdisc players, you are not alone.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nimoy is in full Spock mode in this video, minus the trademarked pointed ears, of course. His inquisitive reactions to watching an ...

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So, was at the local Salvation Army today poking around, and what do I find? LaserDiscs! Mostly ho-hum stuff, but then I find Young Frankenstein! So I bought it. For $1.50. No clue what I'm going to ...

The first laser-videodisc players cost $1,000. The first CD players cost $1,000. The cost of viewing near-perfect pictures and listening to stunning sound was a steep $2,000. Then the Pioneer people ...

Just for the fun of it, let’s dive off that runaway wagon train of technology. Let’s put off DVD — hey, it already put us off for more than a year — and all those new big-screen TVs and all those new ...

The relentless march of technological development means once cutting edge inventions are continually being relegated to the scrapheap, or at least the musty bottom drawer. From what might have been to ...

The Magnavox Magnavision Model 8000 DiscoVision Videodisc Player was a “record player that produces beautiful sound and pictures” through your TV. Released in 1978, Magnavision 8000 was the first ...

Back before DVDs, before Blu-ray, before MP3s, and before CDs, there were Laserdiscs. First released way back in 1978, the Laserdisc media format offered high-quality video and laid the foundation for ...