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Nocheez posted:My brother had Tombstone (which was 2 discs) and it had all kinds of extras and deleted scenes. I was beyond pissed when I plunked down $25 for the DVD when it first came out (in 1998/1999 dollars, mind you) and it was just the movie - no extras, nothing. They had the files! All they had to do was put them on the disc, dammit! Wait, people actually watch DVD extras?
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Sweevo posted:Wait, people actually watch DVD extras? It was more of a fall asleep with the DVD running and subconsciously absorb the extras and commentary tracks.
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Sep 23, 2020 13:57
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Sweevo posted:Wait, people actually watch DVD extras? When I was young with lots more free time I did.
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Sep 23, 2020 14:54
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Humphreys posted:Criterion are known for being some of the best versions of a movie on LD. I have 1 and it's wasted on Chasing Amy. Except the Taxi Driver I have in the post but I can't judge that yet. It is indeed the Criterion version. I haven't watched it in a long time, so maybe it's time to try the commentary track.
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Sep 23, 2020 14:55
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How badly are LDs affected by bit rot?
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So, I mentioned earlier that I was told there were Laserdiscs at a local flea market. Turns out, it wasn’t LD but CED disks. “The Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) is an analog video disc playback system developed by RCA, in which video and audio could be played back on a TV set using a special needle and high-density groove system similar to phonograph records.” Thy were an analog system. Movies on vinyl records. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc RCA hosed around and sat on this format for 17 years before releasing it. It was obsolete before it even launched.
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Sep 23, 2020 15:16
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Johnny Aztec posted:So, I mentioned earlier that I was told there were Laserdiscs at a local flea market. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnpX8d8zRIA
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Sep 23, 2020 15:31
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Laserdisc is analogue too 
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Sep 23, 2020 15:35
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Pretty good posted:Laserdisc is analogue too I said analog but I meant “ uses a physical connection”. As opposed to the Laserdiscs optical laser.
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Sep 23, 2020 15:39
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Pretty good posted:Laserdisc is analogue too with digital audio!
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Sep 23, 2020 15:41
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Johnny Aztec posted:So, I mentioned earlier that I was told there were Laserdiscs at a local flea market. I bought a CED version of The Wrath of Khan because it's awesome having cover art in some biggish format like that. I knew exactly what it was with zero intent of ever attempting to watch it.
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Sep 23, 2020 16:07
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Explosionface posted:I bought a CED version of The Wrath of Khan because it's awesome having cover art in some biggish format like that. I knew exactly what it was with zero intent of ever attempting to watch it. A local "trendy" pizza place has the wall opposite the bathrooms plastered,floor to ceiling, with CEDs.
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Sep 23, 2020 16:13
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I bought my Laserdisc player simply for this box set: Though I did end up getting the box set of Natural Born Killers as it had a Nine Inch Nails video on it (Perfect Drug, I think).
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Sep 23, 2020 16:35
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Yeah for a stupidly long time the laserdisc was the best home version of Star Wars without the Special Edition crap. Might still be, I dunno, I watch fan edited  like 4K77.
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Sep 23, 2020 17:26
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Sweevo posted:Wait, people actually watch DVD extras? When I was younger, had more free time, and there was less content to consume, I would watch all the extras for my favorite movies.
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Sep 23, 2020 17:28
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Imagined posted:How badly are LDs affected by bit rot? It depends who manufactured them. The early Discovision stuff is bad for rot, and some plants like DADC were notorious for making rotters. I think most of the Pioneer made discs are fine. I have plenty with no issues, even ones from the mid 80s. Out of about 400 discs, I think maybe 5 are bad and have maybe another 20 where I can pick up some light visual noise
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Sep 23, 2020 17:44
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Moo the cow posted:with digital audio! Not necessarily, plenty of laserdiscs had analog soundtracks.
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CEDs are tough to keep in good shape. You have to make drat sure to keep them vertical, and I dont think the prior owners of mine did. Otherwise, if you stack them horizontally, they're so loving heavy that the thin caddy walls will give way and scuff the discs. Most, if not all of my discs are afflicted to some extent.
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Sep 23, 2020 18:09
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SLOSifl posted:Technology Connections 5 part series on CED: I remember a long-closed video store in Lincoln, California that had a big painted sign explaining how they rented out every format in the world. It must've been painted in the early-80s because it listed CED and I never knew what that meant until I stumbled across a website about the drat things.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Song of the South  Isn’t that the last/best available version? Edit•you win. https://www.ebay.com/itm/293682825173 Remulak has a new favorite as of 18:29 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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Sep 23, 2020 18:27
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Remulak posted:
Holy gently caress, I'm pretty sure I have two copies of that. Who's buying these? Obsessive Disney collectors? Racists? The Venn diagram intersection of those two? I'm seeing that these sell for $200 or so pretty regularly, now I have to decide if I want to keep it because Disney wants to memory-hole it so badly, or if I should sell it because I don't want to be "that guy with the racist movies on Laserdisc", or what.
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Sep 23, 2020 19:09
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Sell it, the movie isn't good anyway.
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Pham Nuwen posted:Holy gently caress, I'm pretty sure I have two copies of that. Who's buying these? Obsessive Disney collectors? Racists? The Venn diagram intersection of those two? keep it and burn DVDs of it for people at $100 a pop
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Pham Nuwen posted:Holy gently caress, I'm pretty sure I have two copies of that. Who's buying these? Obsessive Disney collectors? Racists? The Venn diagram intersection of those two? I'd not worry too much about being "that guy with the racist movies on Laserdisc" if I were you. I'd be willing to bet that most people who know that Song of The South is racist also know that having a physical copy of it is interesting.
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Turns out I have one copy of Song of the South, and two of Bambi. Still don't know why a person would want two copies of Bambi. Eliminates the "keep one, sell one" option. edit: it definitely looks like there are UFOs in the sky on that cover, those are some funky clouds. Pham Nuwen has a new favorite as of 19:20 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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Sep 23, 2020 19:17
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. NVM everyone else said something before I refreshed. Wasabi the J has a new favorite as of 19:24 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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Sep 23, 2020 19:22
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It's really odd, but I was sold duplicate CEDs as well
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Pham Nuwen posted:Holy gently caress, I'm pretty sure I have two copies of that. Who's buying these? Obsessive Disney collectors? Racists? The Venn diagram intersection of those two? I bought my copy back in 1991 or so for $90. I also paid that for the Criterion Blade Runner.
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Yea, the Criterion LDs can have some great extras. Look at what is included on my Bram Stoker's Dracula:quote:Exclusive new digital film-to-tape transfer, presented entirely in the full-feature CAV standard play format I buy promotional LDs off eBay and have had some bad luck with disc rot. Opening sealed Chevrolet dealership discs and having them skip and stutter a lot toward the end of sides, for example. But overall, I don't mind that and I kind of like the glitched experience anyway.
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Pham Nuwen posted:edit: it definitely looks like there are UFOs in the sky on that cover, those are some funky clouds. All clouds are UFOs until someone tells you about clouds.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:All clouds are UFOs until someone tells you about clouds.
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SLOSifl posted:I used to think this. When I was a kid my uncle was abducted by aliens. His name was Rich and he married my mom’s sister Janet. I was at their wedding in 1986 but I was only a few years old so I don’t remember the ceremony very well. He was my first aunt that got married to. When he was abducted I was in 3rd grade and I remember when I got home from school, after I fed my hamster Steven, that my mom told me that my uncle Rich was abducted. I always fed him when I got home from school, which in retrospect was something my mom asked me to do so that I could build up a habit. At the time it was presented in a way that implied I simply had to do that in order to be allowed to go adopt a hamster (which turned out to be Steven). Later they found my uncle Rich in a lake. I guess they dropped him there after the abduction, anyway your cloud remark reminded me of some of the thoughts I had when they found him. And then your sister did that thing with her hair, which made her enjoy the time in the lake?
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3D Megadoodoo posted:And then your sister did that thing with her hair, which made her enjoy the time in the lake? edit: went next door and he said no too, sorry man
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SLOSifl posted:I used to think this. When I was a kid my uncle was abducted by aliens. His name was Rich and he married my mom’s sister Janet. I was at their wedding in 1986 but I was only a few years old so I don’t remember the ceremony very well. He was my first aunt that got married to. When he was abducted I was in 3rd grade and I remember when I got home from school, after I fed my hamster Steven, that my mom told me that my uncle Rich was abducted. I always fed him when I got home from school, which in retrospect was something my mom asked me to do so that I could build up a habit. At the time it was presented in a way that implied I simply had to do that in order to be allowed to go adopt a hamster (which turned out to be Steven). Later they found my uncle Rich in a lake. I guess they dropped him there after the abduction, anyway your cloud remark reminded me of some of the thoughts I had when they found him. But did they fall in love with life and drink it from the fountain that is pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain?
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spookygonk posted:I bought my Laserdisc player simply for this box set: It's for Burn:  And lol at this quote:  Obviously my order arrived today and they are all in very good condition! Pity about the poo poo cover art on Judge Dredd  Gotta love that trope of 'action guy with gun pointing lower rightl. Who woulda thought so many were left handed?
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Johnny Aztec posted:So, I mentioned earlier that I was told there were Laserdiscs at a local flea market. Those were hilariously stupid. My friends folks bought a player when they came out thinking that it was the next big thing. If they ever got in the sun, they warped and became unplayable. You also had to flip them like a record. Long movies would be multi disc. When I was a kid, the library had a big selection of them as if they were going to become a big deal. Then they didn't become a big deal and no-one had a player anyway. Then you get Laser Disc players that no-one bought except for schools. Then you had the VCD format that was pathetic. MediaPlay used to sell movies in VCD format. I bought one once. It was terrible quality and it took 2 discs to fit a movie. Then finally DVD.
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Also there very much is disc-rot on LDs. A few of the brains-trusts on LDDB and LDA are looking into correlations between releases people find rot and which pressing plants they came from. EDIT: The Lion King I got must have been from a collector as all the discs are still sealed up inside the main box. Then I went through the rest of the paperwork internally and musta been someone in the industry as this pre-release 'ticket' was inside a pamphlet : 
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 So, this isn't my picture, but I have a beta player of this model. It's branded Zenith, but the internet tells me they are all just rebranded Sony models. That there is a 1979 model, in all it's glory. Maybe I'll get around to it before the year is out and get it cleaned up, and plugged in. I got a big box full of recorded Beta tapes.
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Humphreys posted:It's for Burn: Replace the BGM folder of VtM: Bloodlines with the soundtrack of Lost Highway.
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spookygonk posted:I bought my Laserdisc player simply for this box set: It took me a couple of years to get that at a decent price. Here's a few of my LDs: 
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