Yeah, I have a few. My favorite is "No Quarter" the Page/Plant concert.
I've looked several times, but haven't been able to find this on BluRay. Unfortunately the LaserDisc player has started to have alittle difficulty switching sides of the disc. It would be great if Jimmy Page would release this concert on BluRay someday, I'm sure theres a market for it.
I still have a couple hundred discs. Haven't watched one in years.
I'm not sure if "most coveted" means one I like the most, or disc someone else is most likely to envy. At one point, the Japanese import of Song of the South was the most valuable discs I owned, and I paid a stupid amount of money for it only to discover that I don't particularly like the movie. I'm not sure if its value still holds up today with the proliferation of bootleg DVDs.
Some of my favorite discs that I'm glad to keep around as collector's items include:
Star Wars Definitive Collection (box set)
Nightmare Before Christmas (box set)
Tron (box set)
Pulp Fiction (Criterion box set)
Se7en (Criterion box set)
Most of my best ones are Japanese imports:
Dune (box set)
Aladdin (box set)
Twin Peaks (three box sets)
Indiana Jones Trilogy (box set)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (box set)
Neon Genesis Evangelion (three box sets)
Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death and Rebirth / The End of Evangelion (box set)
The End of Evangelion box set is a massive thing that contains books and toys inside.
Almost all of these have been supplanted by DVD or Blu-ray editions with superior video/audio quality (and no burned-in subtitles), but I like keeping the LDs around on my shelf.
I collect CED Videodiscs and have a couple of players -- and although the sound from my stereo players is wonderfully rich, I actually enjoy watching movies on my mono player better. Go figure. Wonderful format with a very distinct picture quality that I really enjoy.
I miss the Dolby and DTS intros that they used to have before playing the movie on LaserDisc. I wish they would do this more on DVDs.
My two favorite Dolby LaserDisc intros:
I still have a few LDs. Sold the majority eons ago. Dug out and dusted off my player about a year ago. Put in my Star Wars LD to watch Greedo shoot first. Then back into storage it went.
Not one, rather a box set/collection - now don't LAUGH, but I collected the entire Sailor Moon series including all of the movies and Memorial discs when I lived in Japan, and brought them home with me. Hey, I hear you laughing....
I have a box of them and some were those special editions at over $100 and often 3-5 discs. These days I balk at paying more than $20 for anything. The player sits nearby to the TV but the new 4K TV doesn't have S-Video input so will look for an S-Video to HDMI converter as I don't think composite would be very satisfying though I might try it. When I watched laserdiscs it was on a TV with S-Video in.
The player sits nearby to the TV but the new 4K TV doesn't have S-Video input so will look for an S-Video to HDMI converter as I don't think composite would be very satisfying though I might try it. When I watched laserdiscs it was on a TV with S-Video in.
You're actually likely to get better results using the Composite connection. Laserdisc video is encoded on disc in Composite format. In order to display an image, that Composite signal has to be run through a comb filter. The RCA Composite Video output is a direct connection from the player to your TV, upon which the TV will send it through a comb filter.
If you use an LD player's S-video output, you rely on the comb filter inside the player. The last Laserdisc player was designed over 20 years ago. The chips inside them are antiquated, compared to what even a low-end TV today will have.
I recently took about 50 of them to the local landfill. Could I have sold them? Probably. Did I care to? Apparently not. After so many years they were just in the way. I was happy to be rid of them, though I do admit I had a rush of memories as I threw them to the ground with extreme prejudice. No tears of regret shed as of yet.
Yeah all 3 star wars movies are in thier original analog format on Videodisc also but I notice PART 2 is 120Mins (Max time for a standard speed videodisc) -- That movie (Empire strikes back) is A LITTLE MORE THEN 120 so what did they cut out to make it 120 on the record??
I suppose they could have cut the credits @ the end and begginging to barely achieve 120 mins..... (All 3 are over 120)
Star wars - 121Mins
Empire Strikes back - 124Mins
Return of the Jedi - 131Mins
I have a copy of the shining on VHS and they did that on this particular copy I have...... It starts with him driving to the hotel (Opening credits) and the tapes stops exactly @ the end of the ending credits. As soon as you see "THE END" appear on the screen,the tape stops and starts to rewind.....
It says its a T-140 on the tape and it does stretch every min on that tape!!
also but I notice PART 2 is 120Mins (Max time for a standard speed videodisc) -- That movie (Empire strikes back) is A LITTLE MORE THEN 120 so what did they cut out to make it 120 on the record??
Early Laserdisc copies of The Empire Strikes Back from CBS/Fox Home Video were time-compressed to fit on a single disc. No footage was cut, but the whole movie was sped up so it would not need to extend to a second disc.
Those copies were also pan-and-scan, but I'm sure you believe that's somehow a good thing anyway.
Later Laserdisc editions did not have these problems.
Thank you... I assume they are sped up on videodisc also then? (I wouldnt want them then)
No later laserdiscs were done in SLP mode (Extended play) so no then they could fit the whole movie on 1 side...... (Videodiscs didnt ever have an SLP mode however)
You're talking about CED? I don't know, probably. Who cares? Does anyone still have one of those players? The CEDs were pan-and-scan and less than VHS quality anyway.
Oh, wait, I almost forgot you're the guy who thinks VHS is the pinnacle of home video.
No later laserdiscs were done in SLP mode (Extended play) so no then they could fit the whole movie on 1 side...... (Videodiscs didnt ever have an SLP mode however)
There were two types of Laserdiscs: CAV got 30 minutes per side, and CLV got 60 minutes per side. It was not possible to fit a two-hour movie onto one side of a Laserdisc.
Early copies of The Empire Strikes Back were time-compressed to reduce the movie's running time to 120 minutes so that it would fit onto a single (two-sided) disc.
Later copies ran at the correct speed and spread the movie to three disc sides, with side breaks placed earlier in the movie to split it up more uniformly (approx. 50 minutes on sides 1 and 2, and 25 minutes on side 3).
The Star Wars Definitive Collection was entirely in CAV format. Each movie was spread across 5 disc sides.
Early copies of The Empire Strikes Back were time-compressed to reduce the movie's running time to 120 minutes so that it would fit onto a single (two-sided) disc.
I wanted to share this with you Josh...... I dont wanna make ya mad buddy but here is someone showing THE SHINING on thier videodisc player AND IT LOOKS QUITE GOOD! (Just like VHS) and this is on 1 of those flat screen display devices......
It doesn't surprise me that you think the ghastly colors, painfully overblown contast, and huge horizontal bands of tracking noise look terrific to you.
"Flat screen thing," eh? You're still watching everything on a TV from the '80s, aren't you?
I collect CED Videodiscs and have a couple of players -- and although the sound from my stereo players is wonderfully rich, I actually enjoy watching movies on my mono player better. Go figure. Wonderful format with a very distinct picture quality that I really enjoy.
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