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He manages to play a LaserDisc using just a microscope
Shelby Jueden, a retro tech enthusiast who runs the YouTube channel Tech Tangents, has just demonstrated that a simple digital microscope can be used to make out the video content recorded on a LaserDisc. The analog encoding of the format makes the data directly visible under magnification, whereas this doesn't work at all with a CD. But how does it work? For those of you who are less familiar with this technology, a quick refresher is in order. The LaserDisc is an analog video format commercialized as early as the late 1970s, well before DVDs or Blu-rays.