The Database now has a total of 52,000 LaserDisc releases! Next stop - 60,000!


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I was wondering if someone would notice

Julien

Aaaaaaaaaaaand I have 300 or so. I have quite a ways to go.

Julien,

Of course this makes my attempt of at least one copy of every release that much harder, but I did get my first batch of PAL releases today from the Netherlands.



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Mark

are there that many titles
i thought there were only 50,000 or around that

There are still 80 or so titles being added every two weeks or so, with no slowing in sight. I think we can hit 60,000. Especially when factoring in the huge number of NTSC releases.

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So, of that 52,000, are they all unique movie titles, or are there individual movie titles released in several different LD options, and each option is counted as one of the 52,000?

For example, Hitchcock's The Birds shows three LD submissions for three different releases, would that count as three or as one, being one movie title?

52,000 releases. So "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" (1991), which had (I believe) more LaserDisc releases worldwide than any other movie - 27 releases, would count as 27 releases. But many films released by Image Entertainment only had one release, some of them LaserDisc exclusives. Many titles released in the final 2 years of the format's life only had one release. In fact, many Discovision ('78-80) releases were never rereleased on LaserDisc, such as "Bustin' Loose" with Richard Pryor.

I own three different releases of "Blade Runner," and each version was cut differently.

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I think you should stop listing LDs when you get to 54,000--the number of frames on a side of a CAV disc

Nice one, although I disagree that 54,000 should be the limit.

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That reminds me, I think I have at least one LD not in the DB. I'll have to figure out which one it was.

Yes, please do. I've added several myself.

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Just 50.500 to go.

After all these years I still have hair on my head, maybe when it reaches 60,000 i'll lose some hair.

I just submitted two myself, a couple of Hong Kong karaoke discs I noticed in a bookstore & wrote down the information for.

I've got a few that are not in the Database I will get to adding, but some of them scenery discs and all Japanese on the cover, so I don't know what the English name of the LD is being I can't read Japanese. Because you need a title name to submit it?

So how is the best way to do those ones? Take pics of the covers and submit them that way.

damn 49,788 to go!

There are a bunch of duplicate listings, and in fact titles that actually do not exist. Right off the top of my head, I know that the German editions of the various "Star Trek" pilots were not released as individual titles, but only as part of "The Pilots" box set, yet the individual titles and box set are all listed. Additionally, the titles "Harriet the Spy" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things" have two entries each for US release and there is only 1 edition of both.

Are there rules for listing out box sets? Most of the entries here list only the major box, not the individual titles contained within.

Is there a way to flag and remove the duplicate entries?

This works for me:
Go to Google's advance search page: http://www.google.com/advanced_search
Enter the LD reference number in the second search box.
Pick "Japanese" from the language drop down menu.
Enter "http://artist.cdjournal.com" into the site/domain box.
Click on "advanced search"

If you didn't get any good results, move the LD reference number from the second search box to the top search box and try again.

Once you do get a hit from the cdjournal site, then go there and note the release date of the LD. Copy the appropriate Kanji which matches the largest font on your LD cover and/or obi. Open a new browser window and paste your selected Kanji into google translate: http://translate.google.com/. As needed, make editorial changes to the translated result to make the title even more English friendly.

When entering the title to LDDb, use English as the "International Title" and copy/paste the kanji into the "Cover Title" field. That way your end result will show both English and Kanji.

Thank's that works great. I submitted 2 of them.