Pioneer has announced that they will halt production of laserdisk players once the production of the last 3000 units has finished.
My my, Laserdisks was introduced in the 1980’s and I actually thought that production of players had stopped long ago as laserdisks (the media) was no longer being produced.
I sadly never owned one which is a bit of a shame as the quality was supposed to be better than DVD, but with the introduction of HD, I guess time finally caught up with the aging Laserdisk.
Anyway if you just have to have a Laserdisk player then this is the last call unless you are Ebay’ing, or maybe you should join the new millinium and try on Blueray.
RIP Laserdisk 🙂Ever tried to load a site in your browser just to end up with nothing yet still thinking “is this a local problem” or IS the site REALLY down?
Well I just stumbled over a site that will assist you in your debugging;
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
Here you enter the site you wish checked, and the server checks if the site is loadable from its end. Yes I know this is a very basic check, however it may come in handy some day.
So the storyline from all those SciFi films are one step closer to fulfillment, it would seem that scienstists have optimized earlier effords in this field to provide a even better version of their ‘cloak’.
The technology is complex, but the basics are that you on the one side of an object capture the light and on the otherside re-emits this light, a little like having a camera on the one side and a monitor on the other just in a much larger scale (many small cameras and small monitors).
Read more;
http://news.cnet.com….