Question: What video problems on a LaserDisc can be caused by dust or scratches?
Answer: glitches, streaks, bursts of static, or momentary picture interruptions

Question: Which format used in DVDs has built-in error correction?
Answer: digital MPEG-2

Question: What type of encoding, analog or digital, causes LaserDiscs to be succeptable to damages?
Answer: analog

Question: When does "crosstalk" occur?
Answer: when the laser optical pickup assembly within the player is out of alignment or because the disc is damaged or excessively warped

Question: What problem can be caused by a player becoming out of alignment?
Answer: "crosstalk"

Question: How does "crosstalk" appear to the viewer?
Answer: swirling "barber poles" or rolling lines of static

Question: In which format does crosstalk generally not occur?
Answer: CAV

Question: Why does the CAV format prevent crosstalk?
Answer: the rotational speed never varies

Question: What happens during "laser lock"?
Answer: the player reads the same two fields for a given frame over and over again, causing the picture to look frozen

Question: Is LaserDisc quality consistent or inconsistent between player brands? 
Answer: inconsistency

Question: What is LaserDisc playback quality dependent on?
Answer: hardware quality

Question: How cheaply could an older LaserDisc player be purchased in the 1990s?
Answer: $25

Question: What range of prices were high-end LaserDisc players in the 1990s?
Answer: US$200 to well over $1,000

Question: What substandard product was used in LD manufacturing that caused "laser rot"?
Answer: adhesive

Question: What was the internal name for "laser rot" within LD processing plants?
Answer: "color flash"

Question: What problems could occur with laser rot?
Answer: black spots that looked like mold or burned plastic which cause the disc to skip and the movie to exhibit excessive speckling noise

Question: Why didn't LaserDiscs become popular in North America?
Answer: high cost of the players and discs

Question: By 1990, how many American homes were estimated to use LD?
Answer: nearly one million

Question: Why were LaserDiscs more popular in Japan?
Answer: prices were kept low to ensure adoption

Question: Which format was more popular in high humidity areas such as Singapore?
Answer: LaserDiscs

Question: How much did a LD cost in Hong Kong in the 1990s?
Answer: USD100

Question: Broadcast in Hong Kong used which standard formatting?
Answer: PAL standard

Question: In contrast to broadcast, which format did consumers use in Hong Kong?
Answer: NTSC

Question: By what year had DVD taken over the LaserDisc market?
Answer: late 1990s

Question: Which collector group highly values LaserDisc for their rareness?
Answer: movie enthusiasts

Question: Until the end of what year were movies released in VHS, LD, and DVD in Japan?
Answer: 2001

Question: What country was the only to receive a LD release of Disney's Song of the South?
Answer: Japan

Question: In what decade did Philips produce a "professional" LD model for computer?
Answer: early 1980s

Question: In what year were LD jukeboxes created?
Answer: 1985

Question: Who created LD Jukeboxes in 1985?
Answer: Jasmine Multimedia

Question: Which musical artists were featured on LD Jukeboxes in 1985?
Answer: Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, and Cyndi Lauper

Question: How many EditDroid systems were ever built?
Answer: 24

Question: Were EditDroid discs single or multi-sided?
Answer: single-sided

Question: Which production company engineered the EditDroid machines in the 1980s?
Answer: Lucasfilm

Question: In what year did the Doomsday project occur?
Answer: 1986

Question: Which equipment was used for the Doomsday Project?
Answer: a SCSI-equipped LaserDisc player attached to a BBC Master computer

Question: What does LV-ROM stand for?
Answer: LaserVision Read Only Memory

Question: The Doomsday Project discs used which formatting?
Answer: CAV

Question: Which of Apple's programming languages allowed users to ceatively manipulate LaserDiscs?
Answer: HyperCard

Question: What did LaserStacks software enable Mac users to do?
Answer: play specific content from the disc

Question: Where were "stacks" created with the LaserStack software used?
Answer: in education

Question: Which commercial company was LaserStack's most successful distributor?
Answer: Voyager

Question: A combination computer/LD player was comissioned by what government entity?
Answer: the U.S. Military

Question: How much did Matrox's computer/LD combo weigh?
Answer: 43 lb (20 kg)

Question: How could Matrox's computer unconventionally be controlled?
Answer: removing the ribbon cable and connecting a serial cable directly from the computer's serial port to the port on the LaserDisc player

Question: What quality made LDs a consideration for videogames in the 1980s and 1990s?
Answer: instant-access capability

Question: What was the first game to use LaserDiscs?
Answer: Sega's Astron Belt

Question: In what year was Sega's AStron Belt released?
Answer: 1983

Question: With what operating ratio would MUSE Discs operate?
Answer: 5:3

Question: What benefits did the MUSE narrow wavelength red laser have?
Answer: capable of reading through disc defects such as scratches and even mild disc rot that would cause most other players to stop, stutter or drop-out

Question: In addition to scratches and rot, what other common LaserDisc issue was to be eliminated by MUSE discs?
Answer: Crosstalk

Question: How many years did it take Blu-ray and HD-DVD players to duplicate MUSE technology?
Answer: almost 15 years

Question: What was the price for early HDTVs?
Answer: US$10,000

Question: Did MUSE have a large or small target market, even in Japan?
Answer: tiny

Question: What were some movies that were released on MUSE LaserDiscs?
Answer: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Lawrence of Arabia, A League of Their Own, Bugsy, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Chaplin

Question: What were "Squeeze LDs"?
Answer: enhanced 16:9-ratio widescreen LaserDiscs

Question: With what aspect ratio did Squeeze LDs operate?
Answer: 16:9-ratio widescreen

Question: Why did Squeeze LDs have a very limited market?
Answer: very few people owned 16:9 displays

Question: Could the 16:9 aspect ratio be easily resized by a normal LD player, or was the image significantly distorted?
Answer: distorted

Question: What percent vertical resolution increase did Squeeze LDs feature over regular widescreen LDs?
Answer: 33%

Question: Which movie was released twice on Squeeze LD?
Answer: Terminator 2

Question: What improvement was added to Terminator 2's second Squeeze LD release?
Answer: THX certified

Question: What Warner Brothers films were available in 16:9 aspect ratio Squeeze LDs?
Answer: Unforgiven, Grumpy Old Men, The Fugitive, and Free Willy

Question: What films were available for Japanese market Squeeze LDs?
Answer: Basic Instinct, Stargate, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Showgirls, Cutthroat Island, and Cliffhanger

Question: What does the acronym RLV stand for?
Answer: Recordable LaserVision disc

Question: Which company originally developed and marketed the RLV?
Answer: Optical Disc Corporation (ODC, now ODC Nimbus)

Question: In what year did ODC develop the Recordable LaserVision Disc?
Answer: 1984.

Question: What is the difference in appearance between an RLV disc and a regular LD?
Answer: reflective purple-violet (or blue with some RLV discs) color

Question: Why do RLV discs have a blue or purple reflective color?
Answer: to make it recordable, as opposed to the silver mirror appearance of regular LDs

Question: For what purpose were RLVs popular?
Answer: making short-run quantities of LaserDiscs for specialized applications such as interactive kiosks and flight simulators

Question: What color were regular LaserDiscs, in contrast to RLVs blueish purple hues?
Answer: silver mirror

Question: In contrast to large LD disks, what is the size of a standard CD?
Answer: 12 cm (4.7 in)