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Posted: 06 Apr 2017, 18:00 

Update: With the exception of a few packaging variations, I now have at least one good copy of every title (that we know of!) released by MCA for consumers under the DiscoVision name. :clap:

Right now I'm working on finding non-GM industrial titles. I recently purchased a crazy disc from our own user " cjm " on which a Library of Congress training program (for LoC employees) occupies side A and a Medical Radiology tutorial occupies side B.

I'm also going through the 600 or so discs-without-covers I received along with the Charles Shishkevish collection and have run across many sides from unreleased titles including one that hasn't been found elsewhere: Solo (1972) on the back of side 5 of Coal Miner's Daughter.

… and I surprisingly have no fewer than five copies of side 3 of the unreleased " The Monkey's Uncle ". :crazy:

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Posted: 06 Apr 2017, 18:02 

happycube wrote:
Cool :) How well does it play? (31-32dB isn't that great for a handpicked disk, but I guess it was acceptable to them then)

I purchased this from cjm and can report that it looks much, much better than what you'd expect from 31-32dB VSNR.

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Posted: 07 Mar 2019, 21:32 


I think we will go outside and enjoy the world or find a good clean hobby that we can enjoy
like playing golf in random parks as forper does :lol:

Try it, the green fees are really reasonable. Look forward to a lot of golden moments, like when a junkie walking his dog offers you advice on your swing. Or a crow flies away with your ball. It's the greatest scenery/arthouse LD ever made, in analogue Super MUSE EYE Vision.

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 Post subject: HACK ATTEMPT on LDDb.com
Posted: 02 Jan 2020, 05:08 

Thanks to blam1 for pointing out that the Global Shop sub-categories was sending back " Wrong country code, sorry "

The country code itself (ALL) was correct, it's what came after that wasn't!

Ex: %20%27-6863%20union%20all%20select%201,CONCAT(0x3a6f79753a,IFnull(CAST(COUNT(*)%20AS%20CHAR),0x20),0x3a70687a3a)%20FROM%20lddb_search._search_2008#&cat=video&key=3

Google for the first CONCAT Hex code and you'll see that quite many websites have also been infected:

https://www.google.com/search?q=0x3a6f79753a

It's not the database, admin account hasn't been compromised but somehow they found a way to poison/compromise the memcached data .

I invalidated all data to start from fresh again, but will monitor if they ever try again.

Julien

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Posted: 23 Jan 2020, 17:06 

Got this thing in a lot off of eBay not long ago, and decided to digitize and upload the thing since I thought it was neat. The disk came in a 3M sleeve, and one side was just white plastic, the whole thing played pretty well for how scuffed up it was though.

If anyone has any more information or possible pictures of the Kiosk, it would be appreciated.

Audio starts at the 1:55 mark, but I enjoy the flight shots leading up to it :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2yU6zEJKws

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Posted: 12 Apr 2020, 17:28 

I never realized until now that the catalog numbers for these releases are really widescreen: 16 9 #0x

Unforgiven (1992) [16901]
16902 - skipped
Free Willy (1993) [16903]
Fugitive, The (1993) [16904]
Grumpy Old Men (1993) [16905]

I can't believe this is a coincidence :-)

Julien

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Posted: 24 Apr 2020, 07:49 

Finally got to digitizing my Ford Laserdiscs to mixed results as the majority of them were rotted like crazy. I managed to get about 4 of them recorded, but even those tended to not play all the way through without hitting the jogwheel a few times to skip past the damage.

-1983 Ford Ranger
-1983 Car and Light Truck Technical Highlights
-1983 Ford Ranger (Español)
-1981 M.C.U System
-1981 Cylinder Head Service (Side 1)
-1981 Cylinder Head Service (Side 2)
-1982 Vehicle Emission Controls
-1988 1/2 Ford Escort
-1983 The Selling Process
-1984 Overhauling Diesel Engines
-1989 Probe
-1988 Electronic Fuel Injection (Side 1)
-1988 Electronic Fuel Injection (Side 2)
-1984 The People Factor
-1980 Prospecting For Sales Success
-1982 Manual 5-Speed Transaxle (Side 1)
-1982 Manual 5-Speed Transaxle (Side 2)
-1986 Driveability Diagnosis - Intermittent Faults
To not spam the site, I'll just comment the future ones on this thread.

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 Post subject: Re: A Cure of Laserlock
Posted: 06 May 2020, 23:38 

So the mystery disc is from ... Alf!

I remember that I made a rip of the disc when I initially got them. Pulled up the recording I made and its only 20 min. This newer one I got 7 more mins. I think there's a few more mins left on it. If you wanna take a crack at ripping it with a HLD player, hit me up.

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Posted: 08 May 2020, 20:42 

I watched The Killing Fields this week. Oh my God. This film is so good. The actor who played the Cambodian journalist actually survived this crazy period in Cambodian history himself.
This was such an impressive film. It made you feel like you were actually there. How could anyone come up with a plan ? How can one kill one quarter of the entire population in a period of less
than four years ? How crazy is that ? They would kill anyone who would speak French or wear glasses. There is a scene where the leader in one of the camps asks the protagonist in French whether he would like
to have a cigarette and he pretends he doesn't understand. Knowing that he understands French would have been his death sentence.
The four years of Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia are such a fascinating topic that we actually know so little of. The country did not have a real government, only a bunch of communists called the Angka that would
rule the country. There were hardly and foreigners who visited the country in those four years. I think I should read the book because I am certain the film omits of a lot of intersting stuff that can be found in the book
itself.

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 Post subject: Multi-Audio
Posted: 21 May 2020, 15:10 

Hello!

I finally decided to tackle the "Multi-Audio" issue. This was not treated differently since the beginning.

The hardest part is to split Digital Tracks into Digital Left and Digital Right.
It's been like this from Day 1 for Analog tracks (because it had CX encoding implications) but never done for Digital further than "Bilingual".

I'm working it it now and this is how it will look like when finished.

Giant Robo: vol.1 (1967) [LSTD01036]
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Frédéric Back: Le fleuve aux grandes eaux (1993) [PILA-1293]
Before 3.png
After 4.png

Same rule will apply for submit/update: do ONLY set Digital Right to the non-default value IF the right track is completely different from the left track.

Will also try to improve the visuals when a disc is belonging to the KARAOKE family to make tracks with or without the singer a little more obvious.

Julien

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Posted: 25 May 2020, 07:26 

Finally found the time to write updates for LaserActive!

The "Video/Compatibility" initially called LD-ROM will be kept and new MEGA-LD & LD-ROM2 will be added.

That means that all previous LD-ROM entries will need to be updated like MEGA-LD (PEAS*) and LD-ROM2 (PEAN*) .

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If a game can be played without a PAC on CLD-A100 then let's just use NTSC or PAL as usual.

Julien

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 Post subject: Hello LD Fans!
Posted: 23 Jun 2020, 17:52 

Hi Everyone,

I've been here before to seek your kind help on the player purchased from eBay earlier this year... so not my first time.

anyway, a couple of eBay failures later - I have finally purchased working Pioneer CLD-R7G 2 months back and couldn't be happier! Only upon adding all my current collection to LDDB I realised - it is already over whooping 160 discs! Mostly anime and all released in Japan. This made motivated to keep sending missing info updates/covers and get to know the community.

I've always been into vintage formats and as a kid from the early 90s I've looked up at technology I could never afford back then. Laserdiscs initially attract with their sleek and colourful oversized covers and booklets, specials that I can't find on any of the current DVD/Blu Ray releases! Also not that long ago I realised how good the analogue picture can look like (no compression artefacts right?) with a proper setup although still struggling to get a proper deinterlacer in accessible price :think: so using one of those Amazon under £99... always a space for improvement.

I'm into mainly 80s/90s Anime and that's majority of my collection although recently I started picking up more and more classic cinema and live music LDs.

Great to be here with like minded people. Fantastic job to all you guys for maintaining and archiving such a huge database even now 20 years (or just under?) after last LD release ever.

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Posted: 24 Jul 2020, 00:13 

Ladies and Gentleman it is with regret that I have to announce that I heard off laserfanhld-gb earlier today.with some news.

During a second exhibition run of Earthquake at his gaf, he wrecked his cinema rig. His bowels unplugged and fell out of his arse while his entire skeleton shattered akin to a festive birthday piñata swaddled in a blanket of riotous Sensurround bass around 6 minutes in to chapter 21 on the discs.

From what I understand the police called to his gaf only to find a carcass that used to house a skeleton amid the smouldering rubble of his home cinema.

If his soul logs on at any stage it may fill you in on his Sensurround adventure.

:thumbup:

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Posted: 01 Sep 2020, 09:24 

Hello!

Took me a while to find copies online to confirm the specs, prices and reference numbers but eventually I solved the mystery of the overpriced Bogyduard -- found in an official Pioneer Japan catalog -- that was bugging me for a long time.

Bodyguard, The: English Conversation Series (1992) [YSL-12591]

I found 2 more:

Anne of Green Gables: English Conversation Series vol.1 (1986) [PILW-1112]
Anne of Green Gables - Anne of Avonlea: English Conversation Series vol.2 (1988) [PILW-1131]

These were expensive, educational releases (about $120 each) with bilingual EN/JP soundtracks, extra studying material with listening understanding question books, etc.

There might be more but I only found 3 so far.

https://www.lddb.com/cover/ld/59401-59500/thumb/59495.jpg https://www.lddb.com/cover/ld/59501-59600/thumb/59511.jpg https://www.lddb.com/cover/ld/59501-59600/thumb/59513.jpg

Julien

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Posted: 03 Sep 2020, 12:36 

Just find out what country the spammers are from since they're presumably not bots if they can get past a captcha.

Like if they're from England, have them tick a box that says "agree" on "Poland is greater than Great Britain" or something

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 Post subject: Bum, Gob and Tea...
Posted: 22 Sep 2020, 16:18 

So while doing some research about the Imagination Laserdisc I received yesterday, I happened upon a music magazine archive. Lot's of great archives to search there and really nicely arranged information reproduced from vintage melody rags. :thumbup:

Anyway, check out this absolute beaut of an 'article' from the November 1983 issue of One Two, Testing magazine (with Kajagoogoo on the cover no less!). You'd never get away with it today. :crazy:

http://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/bum-gob-and-tea/4751

http://www.muzines.co.uk/images_mag/covers/12T_nov_1983_large.JPG

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Posted: 23 Sep 2020, 15:18 

It has been a little more than 3.5 years since the last upgrade (see https://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6849) and the hardware is not really an issue... but the Operating System is (Debian 8: not maintained anymore since June).

Updating the whole OS from Debian 8 to 9 or 10 on the main server is quite scary.
Doing a parallel validation and switching to the new server when ready is much, much more recommended.
It just requires to pay for both during the migration preparation time, some of the donations will be used for that.

=> http://163.172.34.149/

For most users the difference will only be a 4~24h downtime while the DNS get refreshed.
But for me, it will be several busy evenings and weekends :-P

Julien

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Posted: 29 Sep 2020, 19:23 

Never have anything to do with reality TV people. They are all desperate and underpaid and just want to get their first “real” job so they will say or do anything to get though a days work. If you loan them stuff expect to never get it back the same way again, be it possessions or even real estate.

One year Belle Isle Park paddock area (very in demand) was loaned out to a crappy TV show that liked to smash cars and stuff. It took many hours of SCCA members community service to get all the minute tire shredding debris cleared away...from a paddock area of a f-ing race track.

Read Kurt’s account of the Information Society episode of Bands Reunited. That one is a hoot.

And then there’s all the house flipping propaganda that basically destroyed the economy once already but won’t stop.

And the magnetar level depressing stuff like “I Ate My Own Head”, etc.

Best thing about anyone’s LD collection? There’s no “reality TV” section.

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Posted: 30 Sep 2020, 14:43 

WOWZERS!

First off, on a personal note, I cannot believe I missed this announcement back in late 2019. Anyway, it seems Grindhouse Releasing have pulled off a major coup and are going to be releasing the legendary, and until 2015 presumed lost forever, It Happened One Sunday (to give it one of it's 97,000 different names). The now infamous and legendary masterpiece batshit crazy self-important film by notorious conman and utter lunatic Palmer Rockey! :crazy:

Grindhouse have put up a teaser on YouTube (not sure why the quality is so hokey) which seems to have the title card Love Is Deep Inside, one of the films later titles. Meaning the reels found in Los Angeles back in 2015 are probably from a later 1980 cut of the film and not the 1974 original but it's better than nothing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkIiCC8s8GU

EDIT: Grindhouse released a cleaned up 4K restoration clip just 4 months ago! Rockey's on his way!!! :mrgreen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5cU8oYglEM

If you have no idea who this bloke is, have a read of the book his ex-wife wrote (available from Jeff and other places). It's unreal what an eejit this lad was. Yer wan funded the film basically from her post office savings. He was so convinced he was a megastar that he hired a limo to drive him to the screening of the film that he put on himself!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOvnkTZDM2c

I bought the soundtrack album a few years ago. It was re-issued on CD as the vinyl original from 1974 is beyond hyper rare. Even if you traveled to other galaxies no one would have a copy of it (EDIT: I tell a lie, there's 2 'PR-2-LP' copies on Discogs for $275 and $450 respectively). The photo on the cover is of yer man in a rented suit in front of a bunch of locals who stood outside the theatre wondering who this lad was attending his own film! :crazy:

The YouTube clip above is, as far as I am aware, the first time in history anyone has even seen a glimpse of the film, aside from those who attended the screening back in 1974. The film is reportedly dreadful (we're talking a cavernous deep sea trench of stench that stretches TRILLIONS of miles below the benchmarks set by Battlefield Earth, Batman and Robin, Sex Lives of the Potato Men, Planet of the Pitts, Plan 9 From Outer Space and so on). Sure you can tell as much just from the video above!

Either way, this is genuinely historic as it really was thought to be destroyed and yer man died in 1994 so it may never have been found. Bring on the pre-orders!!! :D :clap: :clap: :clap:

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Posted: 08 Oct 2020, 15:09 

Stumbled across a Pioneer Laserdisc phonecard today. Do people still collect phonecards?

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Posted: 13 Nov 2020, 03:48 

DVDs are encoded in component. Therefore, component cables or component over HDMI is the "purest" signal from a dvd, and is why combo players had it.

Video game systems are inherently RGB (excluding dragon's lair and 3d0 fmv titles). Using S-video out of a video game console is better than composite because the color and luminance are never combined (and therefore not needing to be separated).

Laserdisc IS composite, so composite out is the "purest" signal from the LD player.

You can't compare video game systems to LD.

My ~2008ish plasma TV did a better job with LD than anything i have tried "in between" (for capturing). However you should just test. For me, even back in 1993, my Panasonic SuperFLAT 27" CRT did better decoding composite than my Pioneer CLD-D504. So i used composite from LD to TV, even though they both had S-Video.

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Posted: 17 Dec 2020, 09:09 

Took me identical mint marks to see that the Wagner's "Complete Ring cycle from The Metropolitan Opera" with the golden disc cover (I suppose an evocation of the ring as well as the LDs inside)...

https://www.lddb.com/cover/ld/04101-04200/thumb/04193.jpg
Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen: Metropolitan Opera (1990) [072 522-1]

... was also released separately in 4 covers that re-create the full ring:

https://www.lddb.com/cover/ld/04201-04300/thumb/04223.jpg https://www.lddb.com/cover/ld/04201-04300/thumb/04224.jpg
https://www.lddb.com/cover/ld/04101-04200/thumb/04191.jpg https://www.lddb.com/cover/ld/04101-04200/thumb/04192.jpg

Wagner: Das Rheingold: Metropolitan Opera: Levine (1990) [072 518-1]
Wagner: Die Walküre: Metropolitan Opera: Levine (1990) [072 519-1]
Richard Wagner: Siegfried: Metropolitan Opera: Levine (1990) [072 520-1]
Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung: Metropolitan Opera: Levine (1990) [072 521-1]

Pretty neat!

Julien

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Posted: 20 Dec 2020, 07:04 

Another exotic finding was sighted!

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The logo shows ULTIMEDIA which sounds weird (or maybe a contraction of ULTIMATE and MEDIA).
But it has more sense in its longer version: IBM ULTIMEDIA

It does have an IMDb entry .
And probably a reference book companion: https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/Q7KdugEACAAJ?hl=en
The company who designed the boxset still have a concept picture of it here .

IBM-Ultimedia-Columbus-Discovery-packaging-Hero-1200x714.jpg

L.A. Times gives hints that it was a PC software piloting a LD player used as picture/video storage I suppose:

The New World on a Disc : Computers: IBM is testing the waters for video-disc teaching by launching a multimedia history of Christopher Columbus.

But it had never been submitted to the database or discussed on this forum so far.

=> Columbus: Encounter, Discovery and Beyond (1992) [04G3748]

Julien

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Posted: 06 Jan 2021, 00:26 

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Watched a double feature this evening. First up was the Hitchcock film Rear Window, in 4K HDR. Then I watched Mr. T: Be Somebody Or Be Somebody's Fool! on VHS afterwards.

Starting with Rear Window, I'd never seen it before but am glad I waited for the 4K HDR release. The film looks superb and is completely captivating. What a treasure Grace Kelly was too. Gorgeous!

It's another one of those one location films I love. It's brilliant how you become.as engrossed in spying on the neighbours as James Stewart is! I also enjoyed how each neighbour in the apartment block neatly tied in their story with someone else, but also on the flip side, how neighbours in the big city can be cold and keep themselves out of anyone else's business.

The 4K edition is superb with some wonderful colour tones thanks to the HDR layer. The hot city nights look great but also sound pretty good too. The audio is a little quiet but doesn't need cranking up much. Besides, Rear Window is not a film that I think is reliant on the soundtrack but more about listening to and absorbing the dialogue. It's very much a visual experience.

Rear Window was gripping and exciting to the very end and I'm delighted I have finally seen it.

Immediately after Rear Window I fired up the VHS player and slipped on Mr. T: Be Somebody Or Be Somebody's Fool!, a 1984 educational video that, with Mr. T as the host, preaches life lessons aimed at young people.

The film is split in to sections such as Shyness, Roots, Anger, Styling and so on. It opens with Mr. T preaching to a young girl about overcoming shyness. Shyness girl is one of those typical child actors, pushed to the limits by clamouring parents desperate to extort every last cent out of their child that displays a mere hint of talent.

Shyness girl then appears in 'Roots' where she tells Mr. T about her heritage. Probably before slinking back to her trailer to curl up with a bottle of Amaretto.

There's an absolutely tremendous sequence with pop group New Edition performing a song about peer pressure while a group of kids aged about 10 are actually genuinely drinking Budweiser and chain smoking, and forcing a 6 year old to drink and smoke, while Mr. T looks on.

Yes, really.

A lot of the 'lessons' are broken up with people saying "Be Somebody" and quickly followed by a quick preach by Mr. T before he lifts something heavy, usually by taking off his shirt first or breakdancing.

The best moments come from some of the rap songs Mr. T sings, including the wonderful opening song. The songs are so expertly written that Mr. T has to extend his words to make them fit to the music.

Most impressive of all is the nostalgia overload when you realise that Mr. T must have had a neck made of palladium to carry half of Ratners around his Gregory. Unreal.

Kids today could do with watching this video, if only for the rap song Treat Your Mother Right, delivered in a manner Eminem, Jay Z and the guy from the Micro Machines adverts could only dream of. Butter smooth.

Be Somebody Or Be Somebody's Fool! is a masterpiece, and I mean that genuinely. The guy was at the peak of his popularity when this film was made. To put himself on the line and try and help children to understand and appreciate and value the good things and to do the right thing in life was a decent thing to do. Fair play to him.

Side note, I want the luminous Adidas boots Mr. T wears in the 'Workout' segment. Where can I get them?

Oh, and I watched Phantasm 2 last night. 2 down, 3 to go. It was alright, a lot of build up but the ending was a good payoff.

TRIVIA: The main song 'Be Somebody' by Mr. T was written by Ice T!
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