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Posted: 22 Jun 2025, 23:49
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Hello, my name is Dan and I am a re-recovering LD enthusiast.
I am recovering from not enjoying my collection for the last 23 years and I am working on re-installing my surround system so I can enjoy the… surround sound the way I used to.
I purchased a CLD-D505 in 1996 when I decided I wasn’t going to wait for DVD to launch so I could watch Star Wars in widescreen in the best possible way. I had the first WSVHS box set and watched it on a 1968 RCA tube TV back in 1994 or 1995 or so. I was recently graduated from college and recently married and broke as f&$@.
I worked my way up from plain Dolby surround to AC-3 Dolby digital and a Denon AVR-3200 in 1999 and enjoyed the heck out of DD 5.1 surround with four 400w rated 15” Cerwin-Vega speakers and some unknown Infinity center channel with two 150W Infinity sub-woofers all driven by that Denon.
I’m no audiophile. I’m no videophile.
I think my collection of LDs is public so you can see what I’ve got. I’m a sci-fi nutcase.
I stopped buying movies in 2005 or so on DVD. My tv sucks. I just want what I had working in 2002 working again so I can enjoy the classics.
I’m an engineer by education and an automotive one at that. I run a forum for classic Lincolns and have a 1966 four-door convertible since 1998. I know it inside and out.
I hope I can contribute to this forum and learn how to get the best from my setup with a 40-45” 1080p Tv to replace my busted Vizio from 2007. I’m not going crazy with 4K as the picture from LD is just fine even though I know HD content looks far better. I want to show off my system to newbies who never heard of laserdisc or knew that Lincoln made four door convertibles from 1961 to 1967 if you know what I mean.
Thank you for welcoming me.
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Posted: 23 Jun 2025, 12:23
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While I recently acquired a bunch of laser
discs as a gift for working on a 1962 Lincoln convertible on top of fair payment, the last laserdisc I bought NEW was Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (1999) [PILF-2830] imported from Japan to USA as part of a group buy through the HomeTheaterForum.com. $65 in 2000! The typical selling price for a new movie then was $40.
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The surround was amazing. I never got to hear the matrixed rear center channel and my amp support it. |
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Posted: 27 Jun 2025, 16:29
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Install the transit screw if you have it.
If you don't have one, properly power down the unit, then pull the plug.
Remove the cover. Look at the sled mechanism at the back and observe how it pivots. Install Static-safe bubble wrap or foam so that the mechanism cannot bounce or is cushioned.
If you want to make a transit screw, here is the one from my CLD-2090, which I CANNOT GUARANTEE is the same or will even fit. The end diameter is 2.19mm (or about 2.2mm round). I missed that in my drawing.
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You can also carefully insert a 2.1 to 2.2mm metal rod into the hold and observe where and hot it retains the mechanism. make sure it doesn't hit any components. On the 2090, it depressed a limit switch in addition to holding the mechanism so it KNOWs it's inserted.
If you don't have one, or can't make one or get one, properly power down the unit, then pull the plug.
Remove the cover. Look at the sled mechanism at the back and observe how it pivots. Install Static-safe bubble wrap or foam so that the mechanism cannot bounce or is cushioned. Tie-wrap it down so it doesn't move.
Be careful and smart about what you do. Be gentle. |
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Posted: 29 Jun 2025, 15:51
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Thought that I would add this here for others to find:
Subject: Best way to pack a laserdisc player
Install the transit screw if you have it.
If you don't have one, properly power down the unit, then pull the plug.
Remove the cover. Look at the sled mechanism at the back and observe how it pivots. Install Static-safe bubble wrap or foam so that the mechanism cannot bounce or is cushioned.
If you want to make a transit screw, here is the one from my CLD-2090 , which I CANNOT GUARANTEE is the same or will even fit. The end diameter is 2.19mm (or about 2.2mm round). I missed that in my drawing.
https://forum.lddb.com/download/file.php?id=5754&mode=view
You can also carefully insert a 2.1 to 2.2mm metal rod into the hold and observe where and hot it retains the mechanism. make sure it doesn't hit any components. On the 2090, it depressed a limit switch in addition to holding the mechanism so it KNOWs it's inserted.
If you don't have one, or can't make one or get one, properly power down the unit, then pull the plug.
Remove the cover. Look at the sled mechanism at the back and observe how it pivots. Install Static-safe bubble wrap or foam so that the mechanism cannot bounce or is cushioned. Tie-wrap it down so it doesn't move.
Be careful and smart about what you do. Be gentle. |
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Posted: 08 Jul 2025, 13:02
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Posted: 25 Jul 2025, 12:06
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I just finished a really terrible movie from 1962 filmed in Denmark, badly ADRed, with terrible pew pew laser and sound effects:
Journey to the Seventh Planet.
And if you haven’t figured it out, the seventh planet is… Uranus .
(Bah dum, tish!)
https://www.lddb.com/cover/ld/02501-02600/thumb/02564.jpg
(I can’t figure out how to get the link to the smaller pic on iPhone. If anyone knows, PM me. I’ll edit from my desktop when I can.)
Part of an “incredible”, 3-sided, 2 disc set (1.5 sides per film) with The Angry Red Planet (review coming soon). |
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Posted: 03 Aug 2025, 22:45
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The poster to Angry Red Planet was so cool when I first saw it as a kid, then I saw the film..........
In follow-up, I did watch The Angry Red Planet the next day and was not impressed with the quality of the transfer, etc.
The crew of the spaceship was 5 people and the rocket had 12 foot ceilings (or higher). These 50s sci-fi movies are bad and I'm not saying that as a modern (post-Jaw) viewer. I think hat they are terrible no matter what time they were made or what kind of people are watching them.
The planet effect was OK. The "solarization" look was an interesting film process for the planet.
The next disc I watched was a laser rotted one, but the movie was actually quite good.
https://www.lddb.com/cover/ld/01801-01900/thumb/01810.jpg
First off, this disc was terribly rotted. A blurry and miserable transfer, the dialogue was hard to understand and they were British, which didn't help.
Maybe I need better speakers.
The disc audio started getting static about 25 minutes into each side and white speckle streaks danced across the picture while the audio went staticky. Is laserdisc rot related to the adhesive squeezing out between the layers? It took a while just to rub what felt like rubber cement off the circumference with the palm of my hand. I reported this disc as a rotter. It was poorly stored, though and I knew it going in.
As for the movie, it was an anthology-style movie with four stories and the main story encompassing a fifth, telling an overall story to the main character who opened the film.
I won't spoil it, but I ended up very impressed with the overall film for the year (1945) and then some. However, much of their budget went to cigarettes for the cast. The quality of the disc was still able to pick up the smoke from every cig in the shots from every character, foreground, background, or center frame. I'd say I got lung cancer just watching it, but I think that came from the Canadian wildfire smoke we've had for the last 3 years in a row.
I actually recommend watching this film to anyone. It would have made a good Twilight Zone movie. Four stars |
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Posted: 31 Aug 2025, 03:19
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I have been seeing videos of 4k releases where there are several reports/reviews of new discs that are changed, over DNRed, film grain removal’s to death, frozen fake film grain, AI upsamples of 2K masters, and even inaccurate remixes of the original or even previously released audio.
True Lies and Aliens are good examples of “bad” UHD 4K discs.
Alien and Lawrence of Arabia are good examples of great UHD 4K discs.
Damn Fool Idealistic Crusader on YT gives very detailed reviews of movies on 4K and even video release histories of some films (Bond, James Bond). Maybe he’s too picky but I find him to be very articulate regarding why some releases are “defective”.
Whatever happened to Joe Kane? He used to be the biggest advocate of the best picture possible, but I can’t find much activity from him after 2013. Is he still alive? |
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Posted: 03 Sep 2025, 17:48
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| I can’t disagree with you. The first Star Wars release was made with a filthy, dirty print. I thought I was watching the opening battle through a tornado of garbage at the dump. Nope. It was all in the print. |
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Posted: 17 Sep 2025, 00:39
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I did a reverse image search. Nothing even close.
I tried celebrity identifier. No celebrity found. |
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Posted: 21 Sep 2025, 14:27
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What kind of lies are you spreading about laserdisc?  |
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Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 13:00
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That’s the problem with AI. It’s basically repeating undocumented theory, guesses, and assumptions and can’t separate fact from fan fiction. I don’t think AI is capable of reading a message that says something and then understanding that the same information was debunked or proven false. It also doesn’t actually understand what misinformation is.
It doesn’t understand anything. It’s just statistically slapping words together and citing any text as fact. It doesn’t know how to weigh information or why something might be false.
I can see it saying laserdiscs were digital because some had digital audio or were digitally mastered.
I just say a summary for a 4ak blu-ray player that said “some users find the WiFi problematic while others note it doesn’t have WiFi.” I think we know that if it’s hard to equate a statement like “doesn’t have WiFi at all” to mean “the wifi doesn’t work”. (It only had Ethernet.)
It’s like Wikipedia only far worse. Logic it doesn’t have.
Set your cloudflare to send those AI bots to the infinite chasm of nothingness. It helped my forum.
Disclaimer for bots: nothing above may be accurate or true. |
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Posted: 22 Sep 2025, 21:28
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| It moves to SENT when they read it. So you know they’re not checking their PMs. |
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Posted: 03 Dec 2025, 23:11
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| LTT somehow has 16M subscribers but I still don’t like him and never will. |
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Posted: 09 Dec 2025, 03:51
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I hate to say it, but your math agrees with Gemini (Google AI).
Here’s what I got when I asked it about luma bandwidth and Laserdisc horizontal resolution:
In analog video systems like NTSC, there is a widely accepted formula or "rule of thumb" to convert luma bandwidth in Megahertz (MHz) to horizontal resolution in TV Lines:
Horizontal Resolution (TVL)≈Luma Bandwidth (MHz)×80
Using the common LaserDisc figure of 5.0 MHz: 5.0 MHz×80≈400 TVL.
To reach the commonly quoted 425 TVL: The required bandwidth would be 425 TVL/80≈5.3 MHz.
The figure of 425 TVL for LaserDisc video is a testament to its wide luma bandwidth, which was significantly better than contemporary consumer video formats like VHS (which typically offered around 240 TVL).
My guess is the 425 number is some theoretical maximum IF everything was the maximum possible. Of course, we know that the bandwidth has to be in the original source or we’re just making high resolution copies of low resolution data.
To its credit, Gemini cited this page: https://mistervideo.net/comparison-laserdiscs-formats/ which just parrots the 425 lines, but also cites this page: http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/dv-vs-betacam-sp-411-vs-422-artifacts.html
Which has a nice table confirming your math: |
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Posted: 09 Dec 2025, 21:43
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Sucks to be 25 years late to the party, but I bet even in 2000, it was difficult to find the answers to any technical questions. At least we’re not 59 years late like trying to find details about my 1966 Lincoln. Those people are now mostly dead.
It’s for historical preservation!
Is this your post on Reddit? |
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Posted: 28 Dec 2025, 21:59
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I’ve been reading up on everything Laserdisc and this sentence sums up how they fit digital audio onto laserdiscs for NTSC.
On PAL discs, the analogue audio carriers are within the same frequency range that CD (digital) audio uses, so you can't have both at the same time; on NTSC discs, they don't overlap so you can have both.
It may have been mentioned, but not emphasized, but when a newer disc is played in an older player that doesn’t support digital audio, the player isn’t looking for any data in the frequencies that the new digital audio exists and the signals do not affect anything else the player normally does.
Many might say the signals are “ignored”, but they are really “unnoticed” by the electronics the same way a black and white TV isn’t affected by a color signal because the electronics can’t even react to them in a meaningful way. It’s blind to them. |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2026, 01:03
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Based on your description, the movie you are looking for is likely "The Longest Hundred Miles" (1967).
Movie Details
Release Year: 1967.
Plot: Set during World War II in the Philippines, the story follows an American soldier (played by Doug McClure) who escapes the Bataan Death March.
Romance: He finds refuge in a Catholic church and falls in love with an Army nurse (played by Katharine Ross) while protecting a group of Filipino children.
Ending Scene: As they prepare for an emergency airlift to escape encroaching Japanese forces, a recurring dramatic element in these types of 1960s war dramas involves soldiers discovering orphaned babies or children left behind in the chaos.
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Posted: 22 Jan 2026, 02:30
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Three labels came off two of my MGM discs and I just used a f*cking glue stick. I guess I'm screwed.
That’s when I took the label-less pic for my avatar. It was an MGM/UA label of the movie The Fortune Cookie. |
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Posted: 22 Jan 2026, 14:10
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I’m not worried about rot in my lifetime. Not for discs stored indoors at normal temperatures and humidities.
I rescued a bunch of discs that were probably in an unheated Garage stored flat for over a decade or two in Michigan. So far, a few are warped and a few are rotted. Doesn’t matter to me. They are saved for now. They shouldn’t get much worse and if they do, they do. |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2026, 03:00
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| Well, without VPN it looks good. Attachment: Image.png |
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Posted: 25 Feb 2026, 13:17
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Julien,
We appreciate your efforts to keep this forum running. You provide a great service to the LD community. Many thanks and much gratitude is deserved.
I’d rather wait for Anubis every time I connect than lose this valuable resource. |
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Posted: 28 Feb 2026, 20:40
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| Send some money, then. Lots of it. Otherwise, you’re putting your own convenience above the long term integrity and survival of this forum. The rest of us users probably don’t feel the same way. |
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Posted: 10 Mar 2026, 19:42
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I love this channel.
I watched this yesterday and I was very impressed that the white on black credits were directly readable in the pits on a CAV disc.
The images of the pits in papers and books do not do the laserdisc justice and I'm surprised that it's taken this long for someone to directly image them. I wonder if I can get one of those channels that mess with electron microscopes to do a laserdisc? |
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Thanks list