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BodaciousSpacePirate
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Both formats will play in VLC, so you should be covered if you ever want to take a look. |
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Theodore Relic
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I still have a couple of those old MovieCDs around here, though unfortunately no anime. They are SNL: The Best of Gilda Radner and Monterey Pop (on 3 cds). I remember trying them in my old Windows 3.1 PC but could never get them to work in Win 95.
Great, now I need to keep an eye out for anime MovieCDs 
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PurpleWarrior13
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I had a VideoNow player when I was a kid, but all I had were Spongebob and Fairly Odd Parents episodes, and the movie A Boy Named Charlie Brown (which took up 3 discs). This was like 2004, and it was good for traveling, but it sucked batteries dry quickly, and it was obviously before tablets, smartphones, and digital downloads. I still have it somewhere.
I know they had Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network shows, but I think the only anime they had was Beyblade and maybe Bakugan. I remember seeing an episode of Dragon Ball GT on Game Boy Video. It was the compilation episode that FUNimation did, summarizing the first 15 episodes. Might be a decent collector's item. |
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Puniyo
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VCD had a very short-lived life span in the UK and Europe too. Only in the UK we got anime on them I think (I still have an old pokemon dub VCD).
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Primus
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VideoNow was kind of successful for Hasbro. You've got to remember, this was the early 00s and even iPods, which were almost exclusively music players at the time, were considered expensive.
It even spawned an imitator. In 2004 (a year after Hasbro launched VideoNow), Mattel released JuiceBox, a Linux powered kids media player that used proprietary cartridges. While it was discontinued after that holiday season, 4Kids had licensed some of their shows for release on it, so there's some anime: 
It had a whooping 240×160 screen. I owned one and let me tell you, it's a sight to behold. Apparently Funimation released episodes of Dragon Ball GT, Sonic X, and Yu-Gi-Oh! on 3-inch DVD. |
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MarshalBanana
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rizuchan
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Lots of DVD/BD players still have trays (I assume that's what you mean?) but I'm not sure whether or not they still have the smaller indention for mini discs. But anyway, at least some of the motorized slots do accept mini discs (the Wii, for example). I have a small collection of anime mini CDs from the 90s and I tried them on various CD players out of curiosity... nearly lost Mezase Pokemon Master inside my 5 disc stereo system. Speaking of Mini CDs though, my strangest ones are the Digimon Adventure 02 character CDs, which I guess you would call mini CDs with a built in adapter? Basically, a full sized CD's worth of plastic but only the center had data on it, like this. I just find it hard to believe that it was cheaper to make them like this than just use a full sized CD, but what do I know. |
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Garforian
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How about CED, Capacitance Electronic Disc
Essentally a vinyl record that held analogue video, twenty seconds of "research" on google says they had jack and the beanstalk and the wizard of oz, and that's all the anime on the format. For more info here's techmoan with his run down of the format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LrPe0rwXOU |
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Kadmos1
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For simplicity sake, one could categorize the various mediums under the umbrella terms "video cassette" or "video disc".
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Alan45
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I still have a couple of the Software Sculptors screensaver sets around here somewhere. The Ranma 1/2 and Bubblegum Crisis ones. They weren't much when they were new.
There was a time back in the 1990s when computer screensavers were a big deal with a number of companies offering them for Windows. |
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Greed1914
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When PSP video discs came out, I had to wonder who they were for. It seemed unlikely that someone with a PSP wouldn't have access to some type of DVD player. Plus, if I recall correctly, Geneon put two episodes on those discs, so you'd have to buy twice as many. That might explain why they ended up doing one or two of them for Samurai Champloo.
I hope that the plastic shell of the Super VHS was yellow instead of the standard black. (Glowing aura optional)
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pajmo9
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I didn't know about that one. The ones I was thinking of are Gundam Thunderbolt and Giant Robo and I'm not even totally sure about the Giant Robo release. |
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QuarkboySam
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Don't forget the bestselling 4K bluray of all time, your name. (Actually I have no idea if it's the bestselling 4k bluray of all time but it wouldn't surprise me) |
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Stampeed Valkyrie
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lol I also have the BGC Screen Savers discs somewhere.
Also Have VCDs of DYRL and Endless Waltz. Still sitting on my shelf where I left them the last time I watched them.. lol |
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Zin5ki
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It is strange to consider that there was once a market for software designed to only operate in the (presumed) absence of any user. It would be akin to owning a T-shirt with a custom logo on its rear side, but never wearing it out of doors. |
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