The Laserdisc player.
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I loved the laser disc player when I was younger and I have a lot of nostalgia for it. I find it interesting that bonus features that some movies on a laserdisc had never made it to DVD.
I've thought about buying a Laserdisc and a few movies just for the sake of nostalgia.
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For real nostalgia, why not get a 16mm projector? I remember when these were everywhere. At school all the educational films were actually shown on film. Yeah, the 9 minutes per reel was a pain, and the sound was crap, but the picture was awesome.
That's how I first saw The Devil and Daniel Mouse, Disney's Sleepy Hollow, and tons of the Three Stooges shorts.
That's how I first saw The Devil and Daniel Mouse, Disney's Sleepy Hollow, and tons of the Three Stooges shorts.
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There's no reason to keep one unless there's something that's only been released on LD and not on DVD. While back in the 90's when it was the premium format vs analog tapes (when players were actually affordable), it's completely obsolete now.
You don't even get a marginal difference in output quality. I understand that vinyl is annoying to deal with, but take Dave Brubeck's "Time Out" (original EDR pressing) and put that on my granite plate turn table, and it sounds better than any digital version of that album in existence. You don't have the same with laserdiscs. Unlike DVD's, LD's were analog video signals encoded into a metal plate. It's not digital, as in a signal that has been quantized and encoded into discrete 1's and 0's. I think the audio layer was probably digital, like in CD's and DTS, but the video is still analog. You're just reading off of a medium that doesn't degrade over time like magnetic tapes.
My thoughts, having owned a LD player in the 90's and mostly rented LD, good riddance. When watching a movie, you had to flip the disc. Having only an SD TV back then, you don't get much out of having the extra hardware, with the possible exception that you can watch your favorite movie, or episode of ST-TNG a hundred times with no degradation.
As for a film projector. Problems are getting the reels to watch anything, and if something breaks, you're going to need to know where to get parts for it.
You don't even get a marginal difference in output quality. I understand that vinyl is annoying to deal with, but take Dave Brubeck's "Time Out" (original EDR pressing) and put that on my granite plate turn table, and it sounds better than any digital version of that album in existence. You don't have the same with laserdiscs. Unlike DVD's, LD's were analog video signals encoded into a metal plate. It's not digital, as in a signal that has been quantized and encoded into discrete 1's and 0's. I think the audio layer was probably digital, like in CD's and DTS, but the video is still analog. You're just reading off of a medium that doesn't degrade over time like magnetic tapes.
My thoughts, having owned a LD player in the 90's and mostly rented LD, good riddance. When watching a movie, you had to flip the disc. Having only an SD TV back then, you don't get much out of having the extra hardware, with the possible exception that you can watch your favorite movie, or episode of ST-TNG a hundred times with no degradation.
As for a film projector. Problems are getting the reels to watch anything, and if something breaks, you're going to need to know where to get parts for it.
Ornette wrote:There's no reason to keep one unless there's something that's only been released on LD and not on DVD.
THIS. Sadly that's the case with Edward Yang's films (apart from Yi Yi) - and the LD releases are Taiwanese. So, yeah, life sucks.
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This. A bunch of friends and I were trying to do that Dark Side of the Moon with The Wizard of Oz sync at this guy's house, seeing as he had a huge ass projector. Unfortunately, it was on laser disc, and it threw everything off when we had to switch the disc. It had been working quite well up to that point.
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My dad has a somewhat large collection of laserdisks. Compared to DVD, the picture quality is worse, but the audio quality is better. Plus, if you have a shitload of movies on laserdisk, what's the point of wasting your money to rebuy them all on a new format? Just rebuy the ones you love and watch over and over again. We had a player that would automatically switch sides, so we didn't need to get up and flip the disk. The change only took about 10-15 seconds, and wasn't all that jarring to the movie watching experience.
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