Well I had a fun day today!

These are unaltered direct photos (other than mirroring) of a CED and a Laserdisc where using diffraction grating I was able to VISIBLY SEE video physically encoded on the disc!

I will be editing a video about this process but also did a quick write up about it on my wiki here with the direct sample images:

https://wiki.techtangents.net/wiki/Seeing_Media

And here's the video on this if you want to see it in action!
https://youtu.be/qZuR-772cks
Microscopes can See Video on a LaserDisc - Andonstar AD246S-P

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@TechTangents just watched it, great fun!
@TechTangents I just reached the point where you said that in the vod, spooky :D
@TechTangents Ooooh, I've been looking forward to this! ​
Watching now!