ALCHEMY
 
Artist Dire Straits
Release date 1990
Recording Hammersmith Odeon, London, UK, 23rd July 1983
Format 12 inch LaserDisc
Label Videoarts
Cat.no. VALP-3256
Tracks side A
  1. Title sequence - Saturday night at the movies
  2. Once upon a time in the west
  3. Expresso love
  4. Romeo and juliet
  5. Private investigations
  6. Sultans of swing
Tracks side B
  1. Two young lovers
  2. Tunnel of love
  3. Telegraph road
  4. Solid rock
  5. Going home
Front & back cover     
Obi
Additional comments
Concert registration of the last show from the Love over gold world tour. 12 inch LaserDisc, NTSC format, Japanese edition including separate info-sheet and Obi. The Obi on this version is a sticker on the plastic sheet that protects the cover.
 
Laserdisc information The LaserDisc (LD) is an obsolete home video disc format, and was the first commercial optical disc storage medium. Initially marketed as Discovision in 1978, the technology was licensed and sold as Reflective Optical Videodisc, Laser Videodisc, Laservision, Disco-Vision, DiscoVision, and MCA DiscoVision until Pioneer Electronics purchased the majority stake in the format and marketed LaserDisc in the mid to late 1980's. While LaserDisc produced a consistently higher quality image than its rivals, the VHS and Betamax systems, the laserdisc never obtained more than a niche market with videophiles in America. In Europe, it remained largely an obscure format. It was, however, much more popular in Japan and in the more affluent regions of South East Asia, such as Hong Kong and Singapore. Laserdisc was the prevalent rental video medium in Hong Kong during the 1990's. The technology and concepts provided with the Laserdisc would become the forerunner to Compact Discs and DVDs.