__1981: __RCA's long-awaited videodisc system, essentially a vinyl record that plays video, hits stores in the United States. The company spent 15 years and $200 million developing it, only for the ...

Starting in the 1960s, RCA spent many years and a reported $600 million trying to develop a physical media format it called the VideoDisc, essentially an LP-sized black plastic disc capable of holding ...

Physical media is dead. Well, at least that's the saying. Tens of millions of units of physical music titles still move each year, with even CDs selling respectably despite more vinyl records being ...

In 1984, the materials in this collection were photographed for reproduction on NASM Archival Videodisc 2. The "videodisc frame capture" images reproduced in this section are small 100 ppi RGB JPEG ...