Hi all,
Grampus here and I'm an old LD and CED collector. I currently have 2000+ LD's and about 110 CED's in my collection. I have several LD players (around 8 or 10) and 2 nicely working CED players.
I started collecting in 2002 and it literally became an addiction. I had over 3000 LD's at one time but sold 800 - 1000 on Ebay over the last 5 or 6 years, trying to make some space here at home.
I recently back up a CED movie (The Gospel According to St. Luke) to DVD with an LG LRY-517 DVD recorder and then converted to MP4 on my PC, just to see if I could do it and it worked like a champ.
I have also backed up to DVD many of the more uncommon LD's I had via PC capture cards over the years, like (The Keep, Final Approach, all of the Looney Tunes box sets and singles and many more).
I don't collect anymore as I'm retired and have found other interests. I occasionally get a movie out to play but not often these days. When people come over, they think I have a huge LP record collection and then they do a double take when I tell them they are movies not records. I have turned quite a few people into Laserdisc collectors this way
Here's a few pics.
Edit: I found more Laserdiscs in a cabinet that I forgot about so added more pics. Also added pics of my LD players, CED players and CED Videodiscs.
My LD players are Pioneer CLD-1010, CLD-M90, DVL-700, CLD-79 Elite, CLD-V303T, 2x CLD-V2800, 2x Philips CDV400, Marantz LV-510U and A Proscan PSLD40.
My CED Videodisc players are an RCA SJT-400 and an RCA SJT-300.
Also pictured is an old school Pro Audio sound system with Denon mixing board, 4 Crown amplifiers (CE1000 & CE2000), 2x 18" Cerwin Vega Afterburner Folded Horn subs (AB-36) topped with 2x Cerwin Vega V152 Full Range speakers that I use for home theater. It really packs a punch and brings the theater to you. Running it all in bridged mono mode into 8 ohms = approx. 1800 watts RMS.
I don't use it much anymore but it's easy to hook up an LD player or any other device with stereo output to the mixing board.
