stackyFACTSImagine a disc the size of a dinner plate that weighed enough to double as a throwing weapon. Despite reading the media with a complex laser, the video signal stored in those microscopic pits was entirely analog, combining the massive inconvenience of vinyl with the delicate fragility of optical media.
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