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Old 12-11-2016, 16:57   #33
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Re: BBC4 to recreate the first night of television.

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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
Do you mean laser disc?

If so, yes, as something needs to turn the laser disc round.....
And the laser LED and photo detector itself is in a moving mount with a voice coil to enable it to track the movements of the "groove" on the disk.

It seems to me that with the rapid increase in the size and compactness of solid state storage devices that these will become pre-eminent in the future and displace all optical mechanical systems such as Blu_ray and DVD.
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