@Moon No but LaserDisc was always a niche format for videophiles.

@Moon @xianc78 I wouldn't exactly call them "niche", considering they were basically mainstream in Japan all the way up to when DVDs really started taking off there.

@allison @Moon I think VCDs were also popular there. I heard that VHS didn't take off in many parts of Asia because the humidity levels would deteriorate them faster.

@xianc78 @Moon VCDs are southeast asia's thing

@xianc78 @allison VCDs were popular in poor Asia, I don't recall seeing many in Japan but I could be wrong. I saw commercial movies on 8mm tape though lol

@Moon @allison The Japanese Saturn supported them through an add-on.

@xianc78 @allison I think almost every CD-ROM attachment had an addon for it, I even saw them in the USA where there were zero VCDs

@Moon @xianc78 @allison I don't think I ever saw an actual, physical VCD; just torrents for them.

@djsumdog @xianc78 @allison the quality is dog shit, significantly worse than VHS.

I have a VCD bootleg of Star Wars: Phantom Menace, from Turkey. It looks almost-official, the only things that tip you off are the Mortal Kombat logo next to the VCD logo, and when the intro crawl starts you can hear the theater audience cheer.