Thumbs Up For Laser Discs

November, 1991

I have a built-in resistance to new technological marvels, inspired by my laziness to learn how to use them, so I wasn't very receptive that day five years ago in Tower Video on Sunset Strip when the guy asked me how come I was looking at the video tapes instead of the laser discs.I mumbled something about how I thought laser discs were an obsolete format, and he chuckled patronizingly, saying I had them confused with the old video-disc system that was so crude it played movies with a needle. No...