It began with a new job, spare time, and a penchant for impractical archaic media formats. After joining the Daily.co engineering team earlier this year, I had been eager to find a reason to try out our RTMP streaming feature. But what is worthy of a live stream from my apartment? That was the question I was pondering when I tripped over a milk crate of laserdiscs in my living room. Of course it is possible to live stream a laserdisc, but why would anyone do it? This idea tickled me and thus the personal project to see if I could achieve what no one asked for was born. I had the laserdisc player, the aforementioned milk crate, and more cables than you can shake a stick at. I have since come into possession of no fewer than four capture cards and converters, a few of which have made it possible to capture audio and video from a laserdisc copy of the 1995 feature film, “The Net” and stream said audio and video live via a toy app using Daily & Mux. Some issues remain. Will I figure out how to fix the picture overscanning? Did I really need a separate audio capture device or will I try again to add gain to the hdmi signal? Watch this talk to find out the answers to these questions and more. If nothing else, you’ll learn fun party facts like laserdiscs store analog video and both analog & digital audio. And while I cannot say this talk will be better than other laserdisc focused talks, I can say it benefits from being virtual, as the risibly complex laserdisc player to laptop setup can only be demonstrated from the comfort of home. It’s the talk you didn’t know you wanted to see. Presented at Demuxed 2020.