It would be great to be able to pay with cryptocurrencies or just anything that doesn't involve PayPal, Stripe, Transferwise, Google etc.
It's up to the buyer and seller to agree. I used bank transfers before (SEPA), cash in an envelop or local cash payment/pick up.
But, with cryptos, if you pay and are not happy with the delivery, you can't claim anything back if the sellers stop responding. No proof of payment except your account IDs, no customer services, no cancellation.
It's an interesting request anyway, I will try to think about a "find duplicates" by filtering only unique titles found more than 1 times in Collection.
The request came back again so...
Find all Duplicates (in my own collection) => https://www.lddb.com/collection.php?action=list&duplicate=true
I would recommend to follow a basic pecking order:
1/ Sell great individual titles separately (the ones above $500) 2/ Sell the Criterion Collection as a lot 3/ Sell the DTS collection as a lot 4/ Sell the AC3 as a lot 5/ Sell the rest at a more reasonable/practical price
I can't imagine someone ready to spend $125K who doesn't already have some/most of these titles and buying them all to have to resell a good chunk will deter many.
It's a little more work but it increases the chances of finding a buyer + cash starts coming in without having to find a buyer for the whole lot.
For $125K, even though I LOVE LDs, I'd look at real estate. I could buy a 25m2 studio in Tokyo that yields a 6~8% return for that amount.
1) I see SRD and ANA next to some releases. As far as I can tell, the ones with just ANA have stereo analog tracks. SRD seems to stand for Spectral Recording Digital and I take it that it's just some kind of stereo PCM track that can fit on one mono side (left) where the original stereo analog track was stored. Looking into that further, it seems like when digital audio entered the picture, the left analog channel was sacrificed for the stereo digital track and the right analog track became a plain mono backup of sorts. Is all of that information correct?
I can't remember when but it will become public domain very soon, possibly even now????
Disney made sure to extend the Copyright laws (the Mickey Mouse Protection Act ) beyond the original 50, then 75, then 95 (publication) or 120 (creation) years.
SOTS would then fall in the 95 years rule and be protected until 2041, unless Disney re-extends the law again.
There's another trick to keep Disney movies under copyright in countries where the law is 50 years: re-release them with a new dub and start a new copyright cycle ;-) A LOT of Disney classic movies were re-dubbed and re-released in France in the 90's because they were due to expire.
Thanks for the correction. Based on your suggestion I did try loading a CD, but the result was the same. The tray closes, the clamp shuts on the disc, but the disc does not spin and a mechanical whine is heard. Then the CD is ejected.
That sounds like a bad optical block or out of focus maybe?
At least we have both User and Service manuals for this device:
Just remembered yesterday (when I sold my Elton John: In Central Park (1980) (Uncut) [MP026-25DO] ) that the first round of commercial Pioneer LD releases in Japan happened on October 9th, 1981 .
One week to go but, amazingly, except for an an Analog-CX soundtrack a little harsh when the microphones saturate, it is still playing fine with no laser rot!!
Good luck playing VHS tapes or even DVDs 40 years after their relesases. I'm not even mentioning HD DVD (for obvious reasons). If we have the birth date, we also know the retirement date: January 14th, 2009
It's actually his Technology Connextras sub channel and he announced a few days ago that he would be focusing more on SOUNDS following a request from blind audience to make the experience more interesting to them as well.
And LD Players clearly deliver in the "interesting operating noises" department!
Anyway when I think back WTF did you really do with these computers anyway?
At that time, on my Amiga 500, then 1200:
Music sampling (8-bit!), noise/protracking for demos Running MacOS apps (ShapeShifter) and Unix (FreeBSD) 2D painting for websites Spreadsheets/accounting And of course gaming!
I miss the ARexx port that made it easy to automate almost any app from scripts. I used to miss CED (CygnusED) but UltraEdit is a great replacement.
They are still making megademos for Amiga in 2021... and they still look great!
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