1984 Pioneer Laserdisc demo with Devo

This is from an in-store demo disc featuring Devo explaining the benefits of laserdisc over tape. I had this uploaded before, but this time nothing has been cut out and the picture and sound quality are a lot better. Parts of this were included on the "Complete Truth About De-Evolution" laserdisc and its subsequent DVD release. Ray Charles did a number of TV and radio commercials for laserdisc- the deal on them was that he was blind, but the sound on laserdisc was so good he loved it just for that. This was before digital sound on laserdisc had come out. In 1981, Optical Programming Associates put out a concert of his shot in Canada, which you can see part of here and has been reissued on DVD. Don't know the model number of the player shown here, but it's a front-loading model with a non-motorized tray, so you have to manually push it back in.