I don't know if anyone on here is my age (20) but I'd like to actually start a LaserDisc club. We could hang out, have some good food, check out the players we got, and watch some discs on glorious LaserDisc. Anybody here from New York interested?

A tough project to start here because we're from all over the globe. Maybe several from near NY, even fewer from NYC, and even fewer that feel like hanging out somewhere in the city.

Maybe you'd get a better response in a local newsletter or social website.

@jpass992: Hi, I´m just so curious, what especially do you like in LDs ? I´m asking, because I think the rest here (including meself)is a bunch of middleaged guys that are stuck (at least a little..admit it guys..) in the past and are holding on to soemthing that was Highend twenty years ago...
I´m not sure, if I were twenty today, if I wouldn´t enjoy LDs, pic quality is below .avi quality, they are big, not handy...well...I have a coworker , he s at the age of 23 and all I hear from him is: I got this movie, it´s in 1080p, I don´t wanna watch movies below that rate...I obviously never told him that I´m collecting discs (which I actually still buy) that have a resolution of, what, 525 lines. So, what are your friends saying?

I'll admit that I'm stuck in the past. Not just on LDs though.

When I was only 10 in the 60s, I was listening to the Ink Spots and Mills Bros. thanks to my folks.

Later on when I was in my 20s, everyone else was long-haired Zeppelin fans driving muscle cars, I had a 55 Desoto, a Harley and listened to the AM 1950s smokin' oldies station. I liked Zeppelin too, but not when driving around cruising. And the 55 Desoto had all my buddies envious with it's sofa like back seat.

I alway liked spending weekends at the revival movie theaters, watching double-features of pre-1960 classics, and even sometimes the silent movie retrospectives. Silent films, great visual storytelling probably gone for good. Did you ever realize the first 5 minutes of Rio Bravo has no dialog yet is a great sequence that tells so much?

Anyway, about the only thing I ever enjoyed that was timely were the 1970s and 1980s grindhouse
low budget films at movie theaters that had sticky floors and scratched film reels, and the same worn out snack stand commercial every week.

Now the only way to get that same effect is with something like 1980s LDs and CEDs. HD is great, but sometimes I just don't want all that sharpness and clarity with certain films.

I would KILL for that '55 DeSoto
My high school car was a '58 Olds 88. It was like driving the Titanic

Thos 50s Chrysler products are hard to find complete thanks to the Hemi and Polysphere engines they usually had that everyone wanted for a hot rod.

After that 55 Desoto, you would not believe the old cars I had collected over the years, and at one point I had about 20 of them at all at one time. It was a weird and costly hobby and I finally got it out of my system, and took to LD and CED collecting instead. Now I am left with a 1968 Ford and a 1972 Chrysler with a 440, the engine that can pass anything except a gas station.

The other fun thing to do in the old days was the late night weekend spook shows presented in every major town on the analog airwaves that you could barely pick up without making your little brother stand mext to the TV as an antenna booster. Another good reason to enjoy those rough looking LDs and well used CEDs.

I mean since Texas Chainsaw was shot in super 16mm, why have it on HD? It could never look better than on LD IMO

Believe it or not, I grew up with LaserDisc. I've had a D701 in my house ever since the year I was born. LaserDisc is a special format to me. Yeah, I know DVD and Blu Ray are better, but I like the big discs, the jackets they come in. I love the art work on the disc jackets. I also like the players and the flipping mechanism. The other thing I like about LaserDisc is the players were built really solid, unlike DVD and Blu Ray players (unless you opt for high end machines).

My Dad had a 1990 Oldsmobile 88. Was sad the day it was donated. Now, that's a car I'm gonna look for again. Not really to drive cause I like the newer models but for sentimental value.

i think i'm the next youngest having LDs.
in my mid 30s but still enjoy them, i have no need yet to re-buy on bluray.

i do want to get damnation alley but can't decied if i should buy the DVD for 15 bucks or the bluray and a player for 200-300

WWRD