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Originally Posted by electronicskip
I wouldn't actually say that Laserdisc was a complete flop, it was sold from about 1978 until the early 2000s when the last players left Japan and whilst it never was a huge hit in Europe and USA , in Japan they were in approximately 10% of households and Pioneer were the major player in Laserdisc ,even producing a unit with a built in DVD Player near the end.
I still have quite a few myself and 100s of discs on various LD formats.
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It's easy to overlook the fact that we're a subset of the World marketplace. We weren't the sole focus of Philips, or indeed of other manufacturers who went the same way.