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I'm guessing the answer is "yes," since the silly thing doesn't work anymore.
Luckily I only have about 2 dozen laser discs that will be out of commission, but I'm not crying any real tears (except maybe for the BROADWAY MELODY OF 193-something with Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell).
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Apr 11, 2016 - 12:00 PM
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Ado
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I'm guessing the answer is "yes," since the silly thing doesn't work anymore.
Luckily I only have about 2 dozen laser discs that will be out of commission, but I'm not crying any real tears (except maybe for the BROADWAY MELODY OF 193-something with Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell).
David,
Yes, but..
I have hung onto mine for years since it stopped working. I have since replaced all of the LD titles with probably both a DVD and a Blu Ray. But I have the gorgeous large box set of Lawrence of Arabia, and the even more gorgeous big box of Fantasia, and the pretty terrific large box 2001 A Space Odyssey.
I have no reason to hold on to the LD other than a misplaced love for old technology, and the lovely memories I have of playing Star Trek The Motion Picture and Bladerunner and all that, even silly nostalgia for flipping the discs. I recall watching that stuff on VHS for years, and finally playing it on LD, and my jaw hitting the floor.
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Apr 11, 2016 - 12:33 PM
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It's funny for me you two say your LD players don't work anymore. From the late '80s through to the early '2000s, I owned four LD players, the last being a Pioneer Elite player that held two discs with automatic side changing. It's cost me close to $1000. Yet, there wasn't one damn LD player that didn't eventually break and not run. It was the constant strain of spinning those big discs that did each in, and even when I had them repaired, they'd just break again. I can't recall how many LDs I bought over that decade, but it was at least 250 including several of the big boxed sets. I used to love LDs and get so excited about an upcoming release. I hung on to my broken players and LDs for many years after I got into DVDs, but when I finally had to move to another state to start a new job, I just couldn't see dragging those LDs with me. You know, a stack of them was as heavy as a stack of books. I didn't have time to try and sell them, and this was the end of 2006, so I didn't figure anyone would be interested. The best an LD can offer in the age of 16X9 HD TVs is 480i, and even though the TV will upscale it, it still looks pretty soft, and if it's a letterboxed transfer, as most of the movies I collected on LD were, the zooming in to fill the 16X9 TV makes it look even worse. Anyway, all my LDs ended up going into a dumpster and I guess are now rotting in a landfill someplace. I saved things out of the big boxed sets, books, scripts, even a soundtrack CD for THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, but everything else gone and pretty much long forgotten (until I come across a thread like this). I'm just glad I didn't spend more on LDs. I knew a guy who had two to three thousand LDs. Thankfully I had enough sense not to get too crazy with the collecting of them, and if I'd known how short the lifespan of the format would be, I'd have never gotten into them beyond a few "must-have" movies.
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I haven't posted in a long time, but I just had to jump in the old LD discussion! I still have a good stack of movies that we still watch! Back in December, we had a good old fashioned Star Wars Party - and my friends all insisted that we watch the original Star Wars - and I mean the 'original'! LD the only way to go these days! My player has been repaired x2, but it keeps on going - I fire it up occasionally to keep the gremlins out! But, I do believe it may be time to move on! Good luck with the decision!
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I still have a Pioneer LD player and maybe 40-50 discs. I saw Delta Force 3 killing Game about a year ago on it and the player worked OK. I usually have my Laserdiscs as signing objects.
David Carradine (Lone Wolf McQuade), Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th part 8), Robert Englund (Elmstreet 1 "Elite"), David Warner (Time after time), Chris Sarandon (Fright night), Marc Singer (Beastmaster), Billy Dee Williams (Nighthawks), Doug Bradley (Hellraiser 3), Gunnar Hansen (TCM "Elite") and acouple of others signed
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Apr 11, 2016 - 7:54 PM
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My laserdisc player crapped-out years ago, but I made sure to keep my CAV versions of "Dr. No", "From Russia With Love" and "Goldfinger" on Criterion. I don't know if they're really worth anything, but they're neat to have, as those discs disappeared so quickly, and I love James Bond.
Obviously, I also kept my "Star Wars" discs. Also kept "1776" (longer cut), "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (Japanese Import with alternate ending + an American box set), "Jaws" (box set), "JFK" (theatrical cut, unavailable on DVD), "King Kong" (CAV Criterion) and "The Man Who Fell To Earth" (Criterion).
The Story of the demise of my LD Player is gross: Its innards turned to a blackish-green "goo", that ruined one of my discs one day, out of the blue. That thing went in the trash immediately....
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I was once a LaserDisc collector. I owned three LD players, and over 300 movies on LD.
One at a time, my players failed, and (just as it was said here earlier) could not be fully repaired.
I threw my LD players in the garbage, and sold ALL of my LaserDisc movies via eBAY and Craigslist. I earned most of my money back!
If you investigate eBAY, you'll find that there is still a healthy market for used LaserDiscs!
SELL 'EM!!!
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It's funny for me you two say your LD players don't work anymore. From the late '80s through to the early '2000s, I owned four LD players, the last being .......
I like your posts, so please Rory, do us the favor of using smaller paragraphs in these long posts. Thanks.
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I'm not seeing much in favor of keeping the player, so.....
Probably the only discs I have that are "loaded" are probably
AMADEUS
ALIEN
ALIENS
But I think the ALIEN extras were programmed into the dvd extras, so that's a loss....
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