[Richard_FM]

I've normally done well with Philips products over the years.

Laserdisc ended up mostly a niche product for film buffs, even having a last lease of life when home cinema became popular in the mid 1990s.

Originally it was thought that video recorders would be for just for recording & pre-recorded tapes would be too expensive to mass produce compared to discs, which could be stamped out rather than bulk recorded.

Things didn't work out that way, probably because people were reluctant to buy 2 expensive devices when even buying TVs was only just becoming common.