I heard some people say theyre the same thing, but others are adamant that they have different meanings. Which is it?

  • tea@lemmy.today
    2·
    12 days ago

    For the optical media side of things, the name was coined by Phillips while they were consorting with Sony to develop the standard and named it the “Compact Disc” to compliment their already existing “Compact Cassette” product. They developed an official logo for the format which spelled it “disc.” That’s been with us ever since.

    Didn’t LaserDisc predate Compact Discs?

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
      3·
      12 days ago

      It did. That may have influenced the naming convention. The LaserDisc was actually originally conceived as the “DiscoVision.” And if that name isn’t a veritable time capsule of its era, I don’t know what is.