In the late 2006, Digital Leisure released " Dragon's Lair HD ", which features an all-new High-Definition transfer from the original negatives ( as opposed to just sourcing the laserdisc ).

) and Turner Broadcasting System ( which owned the color cartoons released prior to 8 / 1 / 1948, and the remaining Harman / Ising Merrie Melodies ; most of these cartoons had been released as part of The Golden Age of Looney Tunes laserdisc series ), along with the subsequent transfer of video rights to the Turner library from MGM Home Entertainment to Warner Home Video.

In 1999, a DVD of the film's original laserdisc transfer was released, including a cast and crew reunion and a commentary track by Hill.

However, a number of them ( of varying quality ) were shown the following year on the Paramount Comedy Channel in the UK ; it has not been disclosed how these scenes were saved or where they came from ; possibly the source was the Criterion laserdisc.

This version was subsequently released on laserdisc and VHS, but has not been released on DVD or Blu-ray.

The film has been released on video in its entirety in various European, Latin American, and Asian countries — in the UK it was released on PAL VHS tape in 1982 and again in 1991, and in Japan ( where under Japanese copyright law it is in the public domain ) it appeared on NTSC VHS, BETA and laserdisc with subtitles, while a NTSC laserdisc was bootlegged in Hong Kong from the UK PAL videotape.

Despite the Hong Kong laserdisc being NTSC, it has a 4 % faster running time due to its PAL source, and thus also suffers from " frame ghosting ".

While recently released on DVD by Toei Video in Japan ( the entire series was previously issued on laserdisc in the 1990s ), the complete series has yet to be released on Region 1 DVD ; only ten episodes ( some out of broadcast order ) had been released on videocassette by Orion Home Video in the United States, which have long since gone out of print.

Pony Canyon has released the entire series on DVD and laserdisc, while Geneon released it in two DVD boxsets on April 22 and June 24, 2004 in Japan.

However, due to an interest in restoring IAMMMMW to its original length, Roberts ' brief role has seen life again in versions made for laserdisc and extended-length DVDs.

It was released on VHS and laserdisc in 1992 ; it has not been released on DVD, and is now rare.

Turner has released eight VHS, two laserdisc, and thirteen DVD episodes ; reruns have appeared on Toonami, CNX, and other Cartoon Network formats.

House of Dark Shadows has been released on VHS, and as a two-sided laserdisc ( the laserdisc packaged with Night of Dark Shadows, which is out of print ).

A laserdisc release was also available in the USA and Japan but this has also been discontinued.

Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown has also been released on laserdisc.

It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown has also been released on laserdisc.

Prototypes for a 300 baud modem and a speech synthesizer are known to have been made, and a laserdisc interface was planned to allow even more advanced games.

Additionally, bootleg copies of the film in NTSC format, converted either from the UK PAL videotape or from a Dutch version based on the laserdisc, with subtitles made by amateurs, are widely available and have been sold in the United States at retail outlets and on online auctions with no legal action being taken by The Walt Disney Company.

Honō no Tenkōsei was released to laserdisc only, instead of to both VHS and laserdisc, as had been the usual custom with OVAs.

All eventually fell into the public domain, due to National failing to renew their copyrights ; thus, they have been widely distributed on VHS, laserdisc, and DVD.

Deitch's Tom and Jerry shorts have seen limited release outside of Europe and Asia ; all thirteen shorts are currently available in Japan, where they have been ported to the Tom and Jerry & Droopy laserdisc and VHS, and the United Kingdom, where the shorts are available on the B-side of the Tom and Jerry: Classic Collection volume 5 DVD.

As of August 2009, 87 of the 373 titles ( 23 percent ) constituting the list of Criterion Collection laserdisc releases, have been re-released.

The film was made available on VHS and laserdisc in the 1980s by Lorimar Home Video, both of which have been out of print.

On the side of the 7800 was an expansion port, reportedly for a planned connection with a laserdisc player.

* The 7800 included an expansion port which would have allowed for the addition of a planned computer keyboard, connection to laserdisc players and other peripherals.

* A boxed set of the complete series on laserdisc was released for the US market in 1990, then re-released in 1997.

The Criterion Collection laserdisc and DVD editions were released for North America ; however, the DVD was quickly withdrawn because of licensing conflicts with Pasolini's estate.

Seeing the technology already in use for laserdisc classic arcade, and even a few titles on the PC Engine, video seemed to be the best choice at the time.

In November 1994, Fox Video released Speed on VHS and laserdisc formats for the very first time.

In 1998, Spielberg recut Close Encounters again for what would become the " Collector's Edition ," to be released on home video and laserdisc.

The special features for the DVD do not vary from the laserdisc features.

" Clearly audible on the Criterion laserdisc, this line is obscured on the new DVD because the director, while remastering the sound for the new release, thought the character should be whispering the line to himself rather than yelling it, as it was on the Criterion laserdisc.

Note: The Criterion laserdisc release also moved a few seconds of Howard Shore's score for its last side break so as to keep the entire music cue intact.

Under contract from the U. S. Military, Matrox produced a combination computer laserdisc player for instructional purposes.

Similarly, the Pioneer Laseractive and Halcyon were introduced as home video game consoles that used laserdisc media for their software.

There were no anamorphic laserdisc titles available in the US except for promotional purposes.

Many people were involved in the production, most notably: Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the Architecture Machine Group, who found support for the project from the Cybernetics Technology Office of DARPA ; Andrew Lippman, principal investigator ; Bob Mohl, who designed the map overlay system and ran user studies of the efficacy of the system for his PhD thesis ; Richard Leacock ( Ricky ), who headed the MIT Film / Video section and shot along with MS student Marek Zalewski the Cinéma vérité interviews placed behind the facades of key buildings ; John Borden, of Peace River Films in Cambridge, MA, who designed the stabilization rig ; Kristina Hooper of UCSC ; Rebecca Allen ; Scott Fisher, who matched the photos of Aspen in the silver-mining days from the historical society to the same scenes in Aspen in 1978 and who experiment with anamorphic imaging of the city ( using a Volpe lens ); Walter Bender, who designed and built the interface, the client / server model, and the animation system ; Steve Gregory ; Stan Sasaki, who built much of the electronics ; Steve Yelick, who worked on the laserdisc interface and anamorphic rendering ; Eric " Smokehouse " Brown, who built the metadata encoder / decoder ; Paul Heckbert worked on the animation system ; Mark Shirley and Paul Trevithick, who also worked on the animation ; Ken Carson ; Howard Eglowstein ; and Michael Naimark, who was at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and was responsible for the cinematography design and production.

DAPHNE, an emulator for laserdisc based games, can emulate the original 1983 version.

Alternatively, an MPEG-2 video stream and Ogg Vorbis audio stream can be substituted for the laserdisc.

In 1995, a new edition of the film was issued on VHS and laserdisc, for which Prokofiev's score was entirely re-recorded in hi-fi digital stereo by Yuri Temirkanov conducting the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, although the dialogue portions of the soundtrack were left unchanged.

" If I Could Go Back ", " Where Knowledge Ends ( Faith Begins )", and " I Come To You " were cut, but restored for the laserdisc release of the film.

It was videotaped for a BBC TV special and subsequently released on home video and laserdisc.