What Happens When You Put a LaserDisc Under a Microscope?

It turns out you can quite literally see an analog signal if the conditions are right—and you look closely enough.

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@bielsubob Neat as heck, but it makes sense really.

That bit at the end doesn't though... Storing data in a digitally encoded and compressed format is not at all comparable to this. It literally has to be interpreted from the format it's stored in to become the video data we know. You'd never be able to see it — not just because it's ones and zeros but because those ones and zeroes don't even directly represent an image, but instead how to build one in context.