Oh you thought they've been dead. Well they're definitely dead now that Pioneer have stopped all laser disc player productions as of January 14, 2009. Laser Discs were the predecessor of DVD Players. These were heavy duty machines that uses 12 inch discs. Those babies were priced at over $1300.00 MSRP and people were buying these like mad crazy.We can hear all Asian people screaming "NOOOOOOO!!!!"
Pioneer is stopping the production of their LD players, the DVL-919, DVK-900, CLD-R5 and DVL-K888. Pioneer sold over 3.6 Million LD players in Japan from 1981 to 2002.
Sources:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/01/14/all-laserdisc-player.html
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_details.php?id=17346
http://i.gizmodo.com/5130944/pioneer-stops-making-new-laserdisc-players-finally-concedes-to-vhs
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