doubleofive said:
The fact that "laser"disc is analog still baffles me.Harmy said:
Don't you mean analog? :-)
Try to think of the laser in an LD player acting like the needle in a record player.
(One noticeable difference is that repeated plays of an LD don't cause the LD to wear out.)
Here's what LDs and CDs look like under an electron microscope: http://www.modeemi.fi/~leopold/AV/HowLDsLookLike.html