My very first videodisc, c. 1989. What a beauty! Thanks to @suba23 for gifting it. It's for Macintosh. Know anyone local with a working player @apple2europlus @helix_nrg ?pic.twitter.com/jPgWekzTeH
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1/ In case you're not in the loop, the DdD is *the* method for archival-quality LD rips nowadays; it more or less involves tapping the laser pickup directly, and flinging data at 40 million samples/sec over a USB3 link, 220 gigs for a one-hour CAV disc, but there are advantages.
2/ The opportunities for healing laser dropouts are immense, and doing the actual decode in software enables a whole host of other tricks to improve quality beyond a capture card. Incidentally, here's a partial decode of the Visual Almanac via the DdD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AMUIq1s8QM …
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