Warner Bros. began to branch out into the videodisc market, licensing titles to MCA DiscoVision and RCA's SelectaVision videodisc formats, allowing both companies to market and distribute the films under their labels.

A popular theory was that the rights were " lost " as a result of the collapse of the failed CED or SelectaVision videodisc format – to promote the adoption of the format, RCA reportedly purchased exclusive rights to Urgh!

* MCA Inc. unveiled Disco-Vision, a videodisc system to rival RCA's SelectaVision.

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.

RCA produced a system called CED under the brand SelectaVision in 1981.

The name " SelectaVision " was RCA's brand name for the CED system.

Each disc is stored in a caddy — like the rival SelectaVision system from RCA, also known as CED, the user never handled the disc directly.

RCA had initially planned a home video format around 1974, to be called " SelectaVision MagTape ," but canceled it after hearing rumors about Sony's Betamax format, and was considering Sony as an OEM for an RCA-branded VCR.

* RCA SelectaVision VideoDisc FAQ — also contains some DiscoVision history

When Thomson Electronics acquired RCA, SelectaVision was a dead issue for them.

* Television Electronic Disc, an early videodisc system from Telefunken

This device went through many incarnations from a rudimentary computer using paper tape ( with illustrations and text ) to a system that manipulated a videodisc containing mostly still images and narration.

* A Pockels Cell was used by MCA Disco-Vision ( DiscoVision ) engineers in the optical videodisc mastering system.

Light from an Argon-Ion laser was passed through the Pockels Cell to create pulse modulations corresponding to the original FM video and audio signals to be recorded on the master videodisc.

These two functions had to be programmed into the master tape from which the videodisc was made, along with the two-frame freeze frame function.

The first use of letterbox appeared with the RCA videodisc ( CED ) format.

When MGM ( which acquired the rights to United Artists's catalog after its demise ) released Heaven's Gate on VHS and videodisc in the 1980s, it released Cimino's 219-minute cut with the tagline " Heaven's Gate … The Legendary Uncut Version.

The format was commonly known as " videodisc ", leading to much confusion with the contemporary Laserdisc format.

They also found a simple method to extend the analog videodisc standard with digital sound.

Technology Center-equipped with computers, cable access Internet, CDs, laser videodisc, television, VCR, SIRS, and print research material

Instead of 3D computer graphics an interactive image flow is created using premade video clips, often produced by overlaying computer-generated material with 12-inch videodisc images ( where the setup is known as " level III " interactive video, to distinguish it from " level I " or videodisc-only, and " level II " requiring specially made videodisc players that support handheld-remote-based interactivity without using an external computer setup ).

The compilation movie version of Yōtōden was cut together by MTV Japan and released cinematically, premiering at Ikebukuro Theater on May 27, 1989, with VHS and videodisc home releases coming out the following month in August.

RCA began videodisc research in 1964, in an attempt to produce a phonograph-like method of reproducing video.

In 1996, Acer expanded into consumer electronics, introducing many new, inexpensive videodisc players, video telephones, and other devices to boost global market share, and in 1997 extended its laptop efforts by buying Texas Instruments ' mobile PC division.

By 1969, Philips had developed a videodisc in reflective mode, which has advantages over the transparent mode.

Laserfilm, a videodisc format developed by McDonnell Douglas was released in ( 1984?

) Both Docent and MetaDocent were first developed for the videodisc medium.

* Television Electronic Disc ( abbreviated as TeD ), unsuccessful videodisc format developed by Telefunken in 1975

After Discovision Associates shut down in early 1982, Universal Studio's videodisc software label, called MCA Videodisc until 1984, began reissuing many DiscoVision titles.

With the advent of the videodisc player, Dyer realized he could consolidate onto one medium the audio and visual content, which was called The Fantasy Machine.

Letterboxing is used as an alternative to a full-screen, pan-and-scan transfer of a widescreen film image to videotape or videodisc.

Around 1976, Philips and Sony showed prototypes of digital audio disc players, which were based on optical videodisc technology.

Early optical recording technology, which forms the physical basis of videodisc, CD and DVD technology, was first published / filed by Gregg in 1958 and Philips researchers, Kramer and Compaan, in 1969.

The film was released on VHS in 1995 and was the first release on RCA's defunct Capacitance Electronic Disc, also known as videodisc.

The videodisc material was created quarterly by ByVideo at Florsheim's direction, in ByVideo's state-of-the-art video production facility in CA.

The series was released in three episodes from 1987 to 1988 in Japan only on VHS and videodisc formats ; a laserdisc version was also released in 1990.

Video High Density ( VHD ) was a videodisc format which was marketed predominantly in Japan by JVC.

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

However, the band did produce at least one collection of music videos, which were issued on the 1982 Pioneer Artists laserdisc " The Tubes Video " ( this videodisc contained versions of twelve of the band's hits, including " White Punks on Dope ", " Mondo Bondage ", " Talk to Ya Later ", and several others from yet-to-be-completed " The Completion Backwards Principle " album, in slickly produced music videos based on the group's stage shows ).

* Clay, Peter, Surrogate travel via optical videodisc, Thesis Urb. Stud 1978 B. S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

* Lippman, Andrew, " Movie-maps: An application of the optical videodisc to computer graphics ," Proceedings of the 7th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques, Seattle, Washington, United States, 1980, pp. 32 – 42.

Thomson exited the videodisc market in 1981.

MCA used the Pockels Cell in videodisc mastering until the sale to Pioneer Electronics.