Here at RetroRGB, we’ve talked previously about the importance of preservation, especially with LaserDisc formats, which are super susceptible to disc rot. This is on top of the machine’s complicated mechanisms slowly breaking down over time. One way people in the community were preserving this media, was the LD-Decode that was featured on our site […]
Simon Inns of the Domesday Duplicator project has just posted a video that shows the original 1989 “Visual Almanac” working on an old Mac. The system works by connecting a compatible LaserDisc player to a Mac via a serial cable, then using the installed software to control the Laserdisc player’s output to a TV. It […]
Simon Inns has just posted a sample of his Doomsday Duplicator in action! As previously reported, this device captures the raw RF output of a Laserdisc player and using the ld-decode software is able to create a high-quality digitization of the video. Hopefully I’ll be able to try this myself soon! Seems a while since […]
