For those of you that don't know and/or are too lazy to look it up on Google yourself, a LaserDisc (LD) is the precursor to the DVD standard we have now. See, back in the early 1990s when audio and gaming CDs started to take off, some companies produced this item for showing movies in theater-like environment. The only drawback was they had to do a double-sided burn. LDs couldn't hold the data of the film on one small disc either like today's modern DVDs. ID4, for example, came in 2 LDs with 3 sides of data. The compression technology back then was so bad that LDs were seen as giant CDs averaging about the size of the old vinal albums back in the record era of my parents. You know, the things those DJs scratch? That's about the average size of a LD. Since then, compression technology has become so advanced that LDs are considered old-hat and way to hokey. Kind of like those 5 inch floppy disks for computers.
Anyway, now that that lesson is over. Let me introduce you to James Duval!
He was in ID4.
Just a side note. The only reason I bring him up is because he was the very first guy back during puberty that I thought was attractive. Little triva there. Still, he is cute, no? Not really my type, but eh...
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