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.

Nice collection! My eyeballs are yet to witness CED, great to see you finally sign up!

Quite a lot of LDs!

What's your sorting strategy? Alphabetical? Genre? Year?

Julien

Thanks! CED is fun and easy to mess with and I've found a reliable supplier for belts but stylus's are hard to find and expensive when you do. I know that CED Magic used to repair stylus's but not sure if they still do. I have one spare that will work for either of my players and I have my whole CED collection listed for sale on a couple of Facebook groups. I just don't do anything with it anymore so it needs a new home.




Thank you! I have about half sorted by genre and need to sort the rest. I have them separated into categories like Star Trek, Cartoon, Music, Educational (for the industrial players with bar code reader), Bible related movies, documentaries, etc.

Movies I have separated a little different with just a couple categories right now 1960's and earlier and 1970's and later. I try to keep box sets together to an extent also depending on the category it fits into. I put the 10 Commandments set with Bible movies instead of with the other box sets.

It still needs a lot of organization though.

Bruce

Thanks for intro and pics !
Another LD curator !
Please feel welcome here !

Have a wonderful exploration and discovery of LDDB and the FORUM !

CHEERS TO THE MEMBERSHIP

Thanks a bunch! I've been checking the site out....lots to discover here!