In the early to mid-1990s, a typical home cinema in the United States would have a LaserDisc or VHS player fed to a large rear-projection television set.

Home theater designs and layouts are a personal choice, and the minimum set of requirements for a home theater are: a television set or video projector CRT ( no new models sold in U. S .), LCD, DLP, plasma display, organic light-emitting diode ( OLED ), SXRD, Laser TV, rear-projection TV, video projector, SDTV, HDTV, or 3DTV at least 27 " inches measured diagonally, an AV receiver or preamp ( surround processor ) and amplifier combination capable of at least stereo sound but preferably 5. 1 Channel Dolby Digital and DTS audio, and something that plays or broadcasts movies in at least stereo sound such as a VHS HI-FI VCR or LaserDisc player ( no new stand-alone models of either are available ; VHS VCRs are usually bundled in combo decks with DVD players ), a DVD player and / or a Blu-ray Disc player, cable or satellite receiver, video game console, etc.

High quality movie media format such as example Blu-ray Disc are normally preferred, though they often also include a DVD, VHS, Or LaserDisc player and / or video game console systems.

In the early to mid-1990s, a typical home cinema would have a LaserDisc or VHS player fed to a large screen: rear projection for the more-affordable setups, and LCD or CRT front-projection in the more-elaborate systems.

In addition to being the first LaserDisc player to use a laser diode, the Pioneer LD-700 was also the first player ever to have the aforementioned " tilt " servo, which was arguably one of the greatest advances in LaserDisc players, providing superior tracking.

For the 1980 launch of the first Universal-Pioneer player, the VP-1000, the name became Laser Disc ( with a ' rainbow ' type logo joining the two words ); in 1981, the space was eliminated and the intercap " LaserDisc " became the final and common brand name for the format, although the official name was LaserVision ( as seen at the beginning of many LaserDisc releases just before the start of the film ).

A 1984 Ray Charles ad for the LD-700 player bore the term " Pioneer LaserDisc brand videodisc player ".

* A LaserDisc player appears briefly in the 1989 Bond film, Licence to Kill in Felix Leiter's study as well as in a number of other scenes.

A consumer application of the red HeNe laser is the LaserDisc player, made by Pioneer.

These inputs allowed owners to easily connect a stereo audio / video source, like a Video Cassette Recorder, LaserDisc player, or with use of an RCA SelectaVision CED videodisc players to the television.

Although there were official releases in the late 1980s of Betty Boop compilation VHS and LaserDisc box sets by Live Entertainment, and select Superman cartoons by Warner Home Video ( as part of separate VHS and LaserDisc collections of episodes from The Adventures of Superman TV series of the 1950s ), it would take longer for any official DVD releases of the Fleischer cartoons due to Republic's ownership and video license changes, the potential film and / or digital restoration costs, and the financial viability as the result of releasing restored versions.

The first " official " home video releases of the series were by Warner Home Video in 1987 and 1988, in a series of VHS and LaserDisc packages called TV's Best Adventures Of Superman.

In 1987 and 1988, coinciding with the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Superman comic book character that year, Warner Home Video released selected episodes of the series to VHS and LaserDisc, under the TV's Best Adventures of Superman title, with four volumes released in total.

The series list below is annotated with the Book numbers as they appeared in the US release on VHS ; the Japanese LaserDisc and UK VHS ( PAL ) releases are indicated with volume numbers.

The series was originally released by Bandai Visual on VHS and LaserDisc from 1992 to 1998.

The series was released on VHS ( by BMG ) and LaserDisc ( by Image Entertainment ) and later re-released on DVD ( by the now-defunct Simitar Entertainment ).

Although simply called " Ultraman " in the original Australian version, the series was titled Ultraman Great for its Japanese release ; the 13-episode show was originally featured on home video and LaserDisc there on 25 September 1990, and was later broadcast on Tokyo Broadcasting System from 8 July to 30 September 1995.

* In the U. S. sitcom Friends, Ross suggests to the others that they have a " LaserDisc marathon " in the episode " The One Without The Ski Trip " ( 1997 ).

Later, Pioneer Electronics purchased the majority stake in the format and marketed it as both LaserVision ( format name ) and LaserDisc ( brand name ) in 1980, with some releases unofficially referring to the medium as " Laser Videodisc ".

A letter appears in the line below to which the player must add the existing letters to find a solution.

After a further time limit expires, an additional invincible enemy appears for each player, actively chasing them using only vertical and horizontal movements.

Only one duck appears on screen at a time, and the player has three shots to hit it.

While Duck Hunt does not have a traditional multiplayer mode, the manual states that a second player may plug in a standard NES controller in the other controller port and control the duck that appears.

The core gameplay involves the player stepping his or her feet to correspond with the arrows that appears on screen and the beat.

However, if the player uses the " all weapons " cheat code from Doom, a message appears warning the player against cheating and takes away all of his weapons, leaving him with only a quarterstaff.

The placing of " soft " subtitles within the picture or matte varies according to the DVD player being used, though it appears to be dependent on the movie for Blu-ray disc.

A similar concept appears, although much less developed, in the game Quake 4, where the player can drive Mechs as well as other vehicles while the game is still primarily focused on ground based human combat.

As in Quake, it is possible to customize the way in which the player appears to other people in multiplayer games.

It is at its least powerful when it first appears, but increases in power whenever the player collects a new weapon power-up.

From chat logs dated 4 November 1999 and 25 November 1999, it appears that " the nomad " carried through the reverse engineering process on a Xing player, which he characterized as illegal.

The first player lays down his top card face up, and the opponent plays his top card on it, and this goes on alternately as long as no ace or face card ( King, Queen, or Jack ) appears.

* A similar gun to the one in Half-Life 2, called the " Uplink ", appears in TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, available to the player beginning with the second mission.

Although he almost never physically appears he appears during the planning stage, during which the player can get a briefing from him.

Match officials will be obliged to stop play if any player at any level appears on the field of play without the necessary standard of equipment.

After the menu appears, the player then selects one of these icons for the desired interaction.

Items vary in scarcity ; for example, 1-up mushrooms, which give the player an extra attempt to play after the character dies, are abundant, while the " magic whistle ", which enables the player to bypass certain worlds, only appears three times in the game.

Artemis ( to whom the Ceryneian Hind was said to have been sacred, causing her to draw an arrow at Hercules, just like the constellation Sagittarius appears to be doing ), is a key player in the myth discussing the origin of Scorpio and death of Orion, and so has an association with this area of sky.

Wart, as he appears in Super Mario Bros. 2, spitting bubbles at the player.

Cartman also appears in four South Park-related video games: In South Park, Cartman is controlled by the player through the first person shooter mode who attempts to ward off enemies from terrorizing the town of South Park.

The invincibility star from the previous game appears, with a player needing to collect five pairs of cherries to acquire it.

Then following the rotation of the outstretch arm, the ball is moved in a circular motion, moving from the front towards the back, and then slammed through the rim ( from the profile view of a player facing the basket, the windmill motion appears clockwise ).