In the early 90s, it's how it would of had to work.
By the late 90s, it would be cheaper and much lower maintenance to replace the robot laserdisc library and banks of players with a large array of HDDs and a hardware MPEG 1/2 decoder chip per viewer.
By the late 90s, it would be cheaper and much lower maintenance to replace the robot laserdisc library and banks of players with a large array of HDDs and a hardware MPEG 1/2 decoder chip per viewer.