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It worked by having the laser shine through one side of the disc to a receiving sensor on the other side, where the beam of the laser would be interrupted by a spiral of small dots on the disc.
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This would in turn modulate the laser beam to represent the video and audio information, which was then interpreted by the receiving sensor receiving the beam on the other side.
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The Laserfilm format was originally based on an earlier videodisc format called ARDEV, developed by a company of the same name which was originally a subsidiary of
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At that time, ARDEV and all of its videodisc technologies were acquired by McDonnell-Douglas.
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basis to McDonnell-Douglas' specifications and branded with their
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Laserfilm players were chiefly manufactured in Japan by
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McDonnell-Douglas
laser
LaserDisc
reflective
photographic film
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VHD
Sansui
OEM
logotype
flight simulators
Atlantic Richfield
The Dead Media Project's note about Laserfilm
Total Rewind - The Virtual Museum of Vintage Video
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Video storage formats

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