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Oh, I certainly remember laserdiscs. I actually started out with the RCA videodisc system, but switched to laserdiscs when the handwriting was on the wall. I had a pretty good collection, too, including 1776, Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World, and a Japanese pressing of Song of the South. Much of it I ordered from Ken Crane's (remember them? Gone.) Out of spite, my ex-wife refused to return the collection to me, even though the court ordered her to do so (and she had zero interest in any of it). Oh, well... water under the bridge. It would be nice if the extended cuts of 1776 and IAMMMMW would grace blu-ray one of these days.
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Oh, I certainly remember laserdiscs. I actually started out with the RCA videodisc system, but switched to laserdiscs when the handwriting was on the wall. I had a pretty good collection, too, including 1776, Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World, and a Japanese pressing of Song of the South. Much of it I ordered from Ken Crane's (remember them? Gone.) Out of spite, my ex-wife refused to return the collection to me, even though the court ordered her to do so (and she had zero interest in any of it). Oh, well... water under the bridge. It would be nice if the extended cuts of 1776 and IAMMMMW would grace blu-ray one of these days. Ken Crane's is where I purchased most of my laserdiscs. For a brief period, I purchased them at Incredible Universe (remember them?!)
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Lost Horizon comes immediately to mind.
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Of course, better versions of HAWAII, STAR!, 1776 are all on laserdisc. I had a friend who had the RCA videodisc player. I recall watching VIVA LAS VEGAS on it, prior to catching Ann-Margret at the old Sands Hotel, in Atlantic City.
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. . . and a Japanese pressing of Song of the South. Much of it I ordered from Ken Crane's (remember them? Gone.)" Ken Crane's morphed into DVD Planet at the end of the laserdisc period. They're still there in Huntington Beach, California, just down the street from their original store on Beach Blvd. I have a couple of hundred lasers yet. I have two back-up machines, all Pioneer, that work beautifully still. When viewed on my old Pioneer Elite 71" rear screen projection big black box (and the 1st tv that had a rectangular screen), they look as good as the day I bought them. The usual problem with my discs is that the glue that holds the sides together seeps out over time.
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Mar 26, 2011 - 2:00 PM
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riotengine
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I've been a home theater enthusiast for years, starting with laserdiscs in 1991. They were around for a long time but never made it big. They were very good for their day, but I moved on to dvd and now Blu-ray. Did you guys have laserdiscs, and what did you think of them? Oh, BTW, some of my favorite laserdisc titles were JURASSIC PARK and the STAR WARS movies. I bought my first LD player back in the mid-eighties. It was a Pioneer 660, top loader. It cost me about (I think?) $600. the first LD I bought with it was Superman II. I couldn't wait to get it home and get it hooked up to my stereo system so I could crank up those main titles. I did my research and borrowed two different Selectavision players from friends and very quickly realized how much that format sucked. Nearly every disc I played skipped. It was horrible. I was already in love with the *idea* of laserdiscs, but I wanted to see what the other format was like. At my peak, I think I had close to 600 laserdiscs. Now, I have roughly about 20, and I still have three working players. The stuff I've kept are things like the three recalled Criterion Bond films, The widescreen LD of One Eyed Jacks, The Alamo director's cut box, It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World box. The Don Siegel double feature, (Madigan /Charley Varrick) Bullfighter And The Lady, Kung Fu, (pilot movie) Moontrap, Mighty Joe Young, (Image issue, with commentary) Airwolf: The Movie, (Japan Import) Happy Anniversary 007, (Japan Import) ect. Greg Espinoza
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I have an early Pioneer player, which sucks because I have zero access to the additional audio tracks on AMADEUS. I think I have about 20 discs, including the deluxe versions of the first 2 ALIEN movies, and a smattering of B&W Fred Astaires.
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I am glad I was patient. I am glad I wasn't stupid enough to invest in a feeble technology. I saved so much dough....
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In 2002, a friend bought me my first DVD player for my birthday. I got a Blu Ray player in 2007 that cost me $175.00. I feel sorry for LASERDISC Fools.
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I am glad I was patient. I am glad I wasn't stupid enough to invest in a feeble technology. I saved so much dough.... That makes two of us. Even though I used to oggle through this stuff at the video stores, I simply could not afford any of it at the time. Those RCA video discs were really expensive. BETA came and went before I could blink. Laser discs were really expensive. Pre-recorded VHS tapes were to unreliable and too expensive for a fragile media. I did purchase blank vhs tapes and recorded hundreds of movies (on the SLOW speed - slp) from Cinemax, The Movie Channel, Encore, TCM, etc. But I never purchased movies until DVDs came along. Besides, during the 80's and 90's I was too busy partying, spending all my money on booze and broads. Den It pays to spend one's dough on things that matter.
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