__1981: __RCA's long-awaited videodisc system, essentially a vinyl record that plays video, hits stores in the United States. The company spent 15 years and $200 million developing it, only for the ...
Starting in the 1960s, RCA spent many years and a reported $600 million trying to develop a physical media format it called the VideoDisc, essentially an LP-sized black plastic disc capable of holding ...
The first optical videodisc player looked a lot like an old-fashioned turntable without a tone arm. It brought the laser from science fiction into the home. Philips, its inventor, called the system ...