Hey, everyone! My name is Terry & I am from Toronto (Ontario), Canada. I`ve been collecting laserdiscs for around 8 years, although my buying has definitely tailed off (along with local sellers) in the past 5 years.

I got into laserdiscs when I started working at a video store just before Christmas 2002. My boss Greg, was talking about the wonders of laserdisc and how great his copy of Star Wars Trilogy: Definitive Collection [0693-84] was. He said that flipping the disc and even changing discs were minor sacrifices for satisfaction he got from this collection & I was piqued...

Fast forward 6 months or so & found a collector who was parting with about 20-25 laserdiscs & a player. I think I paid about $150 for huge rubbermaid tub full of laserdiscs including Zulu, Diva & Citizen Kane on Criterion, 2001: 25th Anniversary Edition & Star Wars, although the Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition (1997) [4102985]

I ended up having to lug this 25-30 kg tub of laserdiscs on to the subway & home, but it was worth it. I was hooked. After that I started to fervidly build up my criterion, foreign (truffaut & kurosawa) and collection of movies that still had never seen a release on DVD. All these years later I'm so glad I never had to wait for inferior DD versions of my favourite films like: Greed, Salvador, The African Queen, Double Indemnity, The Magnificent Ambersons & of course Star Wars.

I love that this site is so carefully maintained and that laserdiscs continue to be discovered my film buffs all over the world.

Lastly, I finally bought a house last year just west of Toronto to house my collection & hopefully slowly continue to expand upon it.

Anyone who uses "greetings & salutations" deserves a high five back! Should've read further down the board before posting my intro - and here I thought I was being original...HA!

Katie

Now that is dedication !
Lugging the lot of LD's Toronto subway style !
Glad you have a nest now to build up your collection.
Thank you for sharing your LaserDisc beginnings !!!!

Hi ktredshoes, high five! Heathers is definitely one of my favourite films, glad to see someone else on here who loves it too. I am also a huge fan of the Powell/Pressburger fan The Red Shoes (guessing that is the reference with your name) & bought the restored criterion blu-ray last year. I still wonder how it compares to the LD criterion though. Do you have it ?

house of the rising laserdisc

Hi, my name is Elie Barnes 3, from windsor, ontario.

i have read about Laserdiscs on wikipedia, while i don't currently HAVE ANY, i am curious: is it worth it to sell 90% of my vhs tapes, get a 400 dollar laserdisc player off ebay and replace the sold vhs tapes with laserdiscs?

say getting one of the pioneer elite players.
also, i notice that laserdisc issues of early movies have a stereo track, while vhs counterparts did NOT. (example: superman the movie, original vhs was in mono, but the laserdisc had a stereo track)

then we have repair and wear on the laser, still more info needed.
i wish my mom had laserdiscs in the 80's!

this website is mega-cool.
is it me, or does laserdiscs not have the previews that you find on vhs tapes?