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.

But the game had problems from the get-go -- chief among them was the unreliable home-use Pioneer PR-7820 laserdisc player and later, the LD-V1000. Fast-forward 30 years and this is where the ...

Despite LaserDisc players being hard to come by, the format is experiencing a bit of resurgence. Collectors are trying to track down some of the rarer LaserDiscs, and you might even have some.

Released in 1978, Magnavision 8000 was the first consumer player of the format you know as Laserdisc. This 1981 spot for the Maganvision 8000 was one Leonard Nimoy’s better roles, if you ask me.

Well, Pioneer has done nothing to discourage this thought by announcing that it is to cease production of Laserdisc players. Yes, that's right those LP-shaped movie carriers that we all thought ...

Some of these benefits included its sharper picture resolution and the ability to use both analog and digital audio, plus Pioneer's VP-1000 LaserDisc player made it much easier to skip to specific ...

and checks the LaserDisc hit spots with the shots fired by the player, and if the coordinates correspond, it instructs the LaserDisc player to display an explosion sequence. For sections where the ...

Because of this LaserDisc format, movement had to happen in a split-second. The game jumped between scenes depending on the success or failure of the player. It was an impressive feat for the time ...