The first laser videodisc players cost $1,000. The first CD players cost $1,000. The cost of viewing near-perfect pictures and listening to stunning sound was a steep $2,000. Then Pioneer, savior of ...

Remember Laserdiscs? Those large-size video mediums almost no one outside Japan bought in the 1980s and 1990s? I never thought I would write another post on LDs after the one in January this year in ...

...but its not in 100% working order. Allow me to explain. The unit does play discs, and when it plays them, it plays them well. However, I have had a few problems with the unit. First off, sometimes ...

Just for the fun of it, let’s dive off that runaway wagon train of technology. Let’s put off DVD — hey, it already put us off for more than a year — and all those new big-screen TVs and all those new ...

There are lots of wonderful products out there beckoning me to buy them. I’d love to own a Lamborghini Countach, a Rolex President, or a Pioneer LD-S2. They all reside at the pinnacle in their ...

It was estimated that in 1998, LaserDisc players were in approximately 2% of U.S. households (roughly two million). By comparison, in 1999, players were in 10% of Japanese households and a total of ...

MILPITAS, Calif - Dec. 12, 2005 - Sigma Designs today announced it will work with Pioneer Corporation on the joint development of a full-featured Blu-ray DVD player using Sigma Designs' SMP8630 family ...

Those were the days: The Pioneer LaserActive, a quirky '90s console that fused Sega, PC Engine, and LaserDisc tech, has finally been emulated after 16 years of painstaking effort. This breakthrough ...

I have inherited a fairly large collection of Laserdiscs, and an elderly Pioneer Laserdisc player. <BR><BR>The collection includes the Star-wars boxed set which is presented in a way better format ...

Using know-how gained by making laserdiscs of yesteryear, Pioneer is developing a 3D LIDAR (light detection and ranging) sensor that could be a fraction of the cost of current systems. The company ...

Today at CEDIA we caught a sneak peak at Pioneer's forthcoming Blu-Ray DVD player. The model on display, which is not due to be shipped until Spring of 2007, was functional and provided excellent ...