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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The early 1980s were a watershed moment for digital technology. Aside from the imminent personal computing revolution, it was clear that video recording could change the way we did everything from ...

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 ...