Showing posts with label Laserdisc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laserdisc. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

From The Archives of Rex Saigon: The Age of Video (1988)

Another journey back in time, to the halcyon days of 1988 with this 10th Anniversary of Home Video feature from the pages of the now-defunct home tech magazine VIDEO. What was hot, what was not, and what (they thought) was to come . . .

(turn pages included at the end)
























Thursday, September 17, 2009

From The Archives of Rex Saigon: Lost In Video Limbo (1990)

From the 1990 "Tape & Disc Annual" edition of Video Review's Movie Guide comes Bruce Eder's special report about popular movies that were still unavailable on VHS or laserdisc. DVD has become home to most of the titles Eder investigates, but there may yet be holdouts. Read on:







Tuesday, September 15, 2009

From The Archives of Rex Saigon: Buy Now Play Later - Warner Laserdisc (1990)

Found this in an old Video Review Magazine from 1990, back when you could build a library of your favourite movies on disc from only $24.98. SUPERMAN IV? Sign me up!

Saturday, September 5, 2009

From the Archives of Rex Saigon: LASER DAZE (1991)

From an issue of Entertainment Weekly, dated 1991, an era when optical home entertainment discs were incredibly large, not unlike the egos of people who owned and collected them.