Looks like I am going to really enjoy this site, some great information here for me to consume. I have had a Laserdisc player and around 40 movies since around 97', bought my LD player I still use to this day for $40, came with National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and Genesis Live in Concert. I traded my N64 a couple games for the rest of the movies I've had for the past 15 years.

Just this month I was browsing ebay and decided to search my favorite TV show of the 90's, Thunder in Paradise. Well, low and behold all 3 of the movies came up in a lot on laserdisc for a starting bid of 19.99 and just an hour left on the clock. Needless to say I won the auction and have won 2 other lots of discs since then containing some great movies from my childhood like The Wizard and TMNT II. My plan is to collect the movies I will watch over and over so no telling how many I may end up with. I have double my collection in just 2 weeks for those 40ish movies I've had for 15 years.

I love the look and style of Laserdisc, so much fun to talk about with people who did not know the format existed. I have had a LD player since I was 15, no reason to go back now.

Sounds cool Welcome

Welcome and get em on the platter and spin them they are so cool despite laser rot on some titles but don't let that discourage you. You might as well have all means of optical disc format Laserdisc, Muse, DVD HD-DVD and bluray. I find Laserdisc as the edge of playing back scenes at faster rate over the others and that's what makes it fun for me to enjoy in peace in the home.

What about UMD and MiniDisc-Video? Oh, and VCD, SVCD, China's two HD DVD standards...

That too, then you can do CED and Beta, lol. But that is another format all together.

sigh...i actually saw one at a record show, didn't buy it.
wish my mom paid more for ld's than vhs tapes in the early 90's.
but that will change this year or next year.

NEXT YEAR

still at 240 bucks saved up, gotta wait for the right moment to do it behind her back. (test discs usually come first, i'll tell her it's a lp or something like that)

test disc you don't have any discs yet from goodwill or any type
of thrift store near you?

Or from some well meaning friend to get you hooked?

nope, laserdiscs are kinda rare in windsor, and value village sells vhs tapes.

so why even bother with LDs.
unless you want to have films like the last dinosaur.

i'd love to have japan issues with different lines/alt logos.

Good afternoon xtremegamer,

Just read your initial post and enjoyed reading what you wrote.

Welcome to the forum, they are all a great bunch of guys here and I find we all belong.........Something very rare to find.

I must admit that those who embraced this fine format in it's day and, even now are of a different class of movie collector.
Personally I fealt that when DVD came along, Something noticeably precious was lost.

It's hard to describe, Laserdisc collectors connect more with others, and that's why a number of us would describe Laserdisc as a whole, is an experience and not just a movie format...............

Your amongst friends here

Thanks for the nice welcomes! I do plan to expand my collection of LD's, just with having a budget might only be once a month I am able to add stuff to the collection.

So what is everyones take on opening sealed movies? I have collected video games for about 7 years and opening a sealed vintage game is a big no no.

Also, I have never had an issue with any of my LD's until this last lot I bought off of the bay, the movie Speed, the sound is all gargled, is this a form of rot? Disc seems to be a decent enough shape.

Good day xtremegamer,

Your welcome

My personal views on opening New sealed Laserdisc's is this: I buy Laserdisc's to watch them and so I open them , after all that is the whole purpose of why they produced them.

The Speed Movie Problem . . . . . .Could be a rot problem, but personally I have never read that this Movie has had Disc rot problems.

I also have this 1 x US and also the Japanese version.

Is your player in good shape?

Does it play the rest of your movies without a problem ?

A Laserdisc can look perfectly alright by it's looks but not so when playing back.

Have you looked at this sites disc rotters list to see if there have been any problems with this title.
I must admit that I have'nt looked at this for some time now.

I hope my two pennies worth is of some help

Sincere Regards

could be slight warp of the disc, or laser need adjusting, i don't know how to do that.

as for opened, if you don't want the film then sell it sealed, if you do open it.
i sold a disc that i didn't want but found sealed, so i left it sealed.
but it really dosn't make a difference with LDs as you want to make sure they play fine.

rot is more of snow and hellicopter sounds in the audio, but i've only had image problem first then audio.
never just audio.

Welcome to the forum!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My theroy is this. You bought it to watch it, so watch it. I never understood people who buy things just to keep it sealed. (Unless its more than one copy of something) I bought a video off ebay that I paid $50 for on Beta. Still sealed. I got it and opened it. My dad asked why would I want to open it if I paid $50 for it? I said, "Cause I bought it to watch it." I watched it every day for two weeks to make sure I got my $50 worth.

If you never take the risk you never know what you can behold. Like I am going to try to watch an old 8mm movie, lol.