Hey everyone,
so after beeing active for I guess about two months I wanted to give you guys a short introduction.
I got into Laserdisc only two or three months ago by accident.
My father and myself were watching a movie. We do this occasionally and when we both find the time he comes over as I am the nerd with the better equipment.
We both love "older" movies especially from ~ 1985 - 2005. Most things released after just dont get me that exited. Of course there are exeptions.
I love the art of stop motion and if I would have been born earlier that would have been my passion / profession for sure.
But I digress...
We were watching Demolition Man and the character played by Sandra Bullock said something like "you are even better in real than on Laserdisc".
I always though this to be a joke and some futuristic term used in the movie for some archive disc.
This time however I checked the internet and was shocked / straight in love with the hardware, the quality and the discs itself.
I like old technology that was ahead of its time.
The best quote I found was "10% of Japanese people owned a LD player, while only 1% of Germans even knew what a LD was".
I fully agree with that.
I also like to fiddle with older electronics (collecting pinballs as well which is a rather rare hobby in Germany).
So after a lot of research here I bought myself a CLD-2950 which is in rather good shape I guess.
And after that I, of course, had to start building up a small collection.
So here I am. Yet another useless and expensive hobby. I love it!
Thanks to everyone here for all the posted advise that helped my out a lot!
Cheers,
Markus