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yourusername 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc

That's Video CD. It existed before DVD but survived alongside it (mainly in Asia) as a cheaper alternative.

a-dub 6 months ago [–]

no, apparently there was both. i was familiar with video cd which was mpeg-1 on a cd-rom (with some weird partitioning scheme). cd video is apparently a very obscure hybrid format with an analog video section and a digital audio section. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Video

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