Laserdisc (LD) was the first commercial optical disc storage medium, and was
used primarily for movies for home viewing.
During its development, MCA, which owned the technology, referred to it as the
Reflective Optical Videodisc System; changing the name to
Disco-Vision and then to DiscoVision .
Pioneer Electronics manufactured players and printed discs under the name
Laser Videodisc. For 1980 the name was compressed into LaserDisc and in
1981"Laserdisc" became the final and common name for the format,
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