The laserdisc came out in the late 70's and was advertised as offering better quality video viewing abilities. At the time these advertisements were true. The laserdisc was just an over sized cd as we would see it today. The product was to rival VHS and betamax videocassette systems. The reason for the flop was because it just didn't attract many people in the United States. It seemed to become popular in Japan but was irrelevant in Europe and Australia. People believed it was too expense for the product and then to buy all the different laserdisc in order to use it. This product was not accepted by the majority of people and fell out of favor fast. Another reason as to why people didn't buy it was because half way through the movie, you had to flip the disc over to continue to the last half. Why do that when a VHS had all of the material on one cassette?
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