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Originally Posted by pdurrant
This reminds me of the BBC Domesday Project from 1986. Done for the 900th anniversary of the book compiled by/for William the Conqueror. There have been preservation efforts, but none have been simple or wholly successful. |
They chose a crazy format. Some people at the time thought so. Interactive Laser Disc was doomed before it was even released.
It was obvious by 1983 that it was doomed. An analogue system and very large disk. CD was a success by 1986 (Audio CD demo 1982)
By 1988, CD sales in the United States surpassed those of vinyl LPs.
CD-ROM was released in 1985, though home writeable CD-ROMs about 1988. But the Laserdisc used with the interactive system were factory produced from other media sent in.
No doubt the BBC didn't keep that, as they were run by bean counters and erased £85 tapes that had cost £10,000 to produce to save money from the 1970s.
Almost no BBC episodes of anything were lost. They burnt 16mm film to save on storage costs and re-used the 2″ video tapes.
By 1972 it was known that analogue Laserdisc was a dead end and Philips established a digital lab in 1977.