Laserdisc may be obsolete, but it still stands for one practical reason: high quality preservation of old movies. I have two cherished movies that will never see DVD: Gold Diggers: Secret Of Bear Mountain& Leaving Normal. Now I could've used VHS, but we all know it SUCKS!!! So I bought mint condition discs and a year later acquired the CLD-S104! I transferred em to DVDs.

I showed them to a non-videophile friend on an analog TV set. Guess what? She couldn't tell the difference from real DVD quality.

Isn't it amazing the power LD gives us today?

Isn't it amazing the power LD gives us today?


If you say so.....:confused:

I guess nobody got the message. I never started playing around with LD until this year. Why? Because I wanted high quality preservations as explained before. I think it's awesome that I can do what VHS never could. This wouldn't be so significant if I could get to the studio masters :-)

Hi CLD-D704,
Welcome to the world of laserdiscs! We're a small group at this late date, but have fond memories of our LD collections. I never bought videocassettes back in the day, only LDs if I wanted to own a film. There are still some rare gems out there only on laserdisc, or with unique supplemental features that will not likely be available again. Enjoy your collecting; I hope your player lasts as long as you need it. I'm a D704 owner as well. Had mine serviced twice last year, so I hope that is the last repair it will need before I copy them over to DVD-R to preserve the collection.