The big discs like the vinyl ones are the LD ( Laser Discs ), I didn't even buy one of those because I thought DVD's were less of a trouble to keep since they were smaller. The first time I watched a LD was back in 1998, the movies was Waterworld. At the time I was pretty much blown out by the quality of video and sound, but still I refused to buy them since there were the DVD's already. Why would I buy something that bigger if I could get them as a small DVD, that's just what I thought at the time. I won't call it a war but LD tried to be a DVD competitor, at least here in Japan, but it just flunked!
