Does anyone here remember the LASERDISC movie format?

Because I was in the Consumer Electronics business, not only do I remember laserdiscs, I owned two laserdisc players, although not at the same time.
My first was the standard laserdic player from Pioneer, the type where you had to turn the disc over in order to play the other side.
This could get quite annoying since the maximum amount of time on each side was one hour. Thus every film I watched on that machine had to be stopped so that the disc could be turned over.
That laserdisc player was replaced by a dual sided player, also by Pioneer. This second player had two laserdisc "readers" in it, one for the top side and one for the bottom. As a result, it was a much larger player than the first.
Of course the advantage the second player had over the first was that you no longer had to turn the disc over while watching a movie.
However, if the film was longer than two hours, it would take two discs to contain the entire film. Thus you still had to get off your ass and go to the player in order to change the disc to watch the rest of the film.

I found both the picture and sound quality to be superior to that of video tape. That being said, it was quite expensive to buy a movie on laserdisc, although I did buy a few. Fortunately however, a video store near me had a decent inventory of films to rent on laserdisc, this for the same price as renting a film on videotape. So that was a plus. And of course, there was no need to "Be Kind and Rewind" afterwards.

i missed this

Yes. I watched ONE film on that rather clumsy format: Braveheart at a friend's house. She had to change the disc in the middle of the movie. I thought to myself "You have got to be kidding!"

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PS Come to think of it, since it has been abandoned, the discs will probably eventually become valuable, if they haven't already become so.