In the 1980s there was a video player that played movies that looked like record albums. What was it called?

Question

There were vhs tapes and tapes called beta but I can't remember what the disc player was called. The disks were big like a record album and they didn't catch on for long because they would skip easily.

Answer 1

Laser discs. You can still find those old players around on ebay and stuff.
A rental place just down the street from me still rents those bad boys.

Answer 2

Russell, Yes I still have a VHS tape recorder/player plus I have a DVD recorder/player. I usually the use the DVD player on my 17" laptop to watch movies as I find it does not hang up a much as my DVD player attached to the LCD TV. Modern technology has too many bugs in it yet and the R&D division and quality control isn't done on the production lines in Japan and China. Slap a sticker on it and let is move on down the road. Slap on 2 stickers and get an extra bowl of rice at lunchtime. :))

Answer 3

RCA video discs there were kind of the beta max of video discs. they lost the format war to laser disk

Answer 4

Was it a Laser Disc player?? That's what I remember anyway.

Answer 5

LaserDisc