abstract:LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium initially licensed, sold, and marketed as MCA DiscoVision (also known as simply "DiscoVision") in North America in 1978.
In the technologymarket, making the jump fromearlyadoptionto the mainstreamis the difference betweenbecoming the nextiPadand becoming the next Laserdisc.