Wow!!!

What a great forum. Been searching for an active Laserdisc-forum a long time. Finally I've come home, it seems - I'm still reading all the good stuff here and learning every minute.

I'm a danish collector, who's been collecting since ca. 2001. But before that, I had been a fan of the format since maybe 1993, when a good friend of mine bought a player an some film. Alas!, I was always to poor to buy myself a player and films back then.

A little danish laserdisc-history: Laserdisc in Denmark was (as I guess is the case in many european countries) never very popular outside fan-communities, so it was distributed through relatively few stores around the country. When the DVD came the format was abolished everywhere within a short time. That means that I've been buying when everybody else was selling. Good for building up a collection cheaply

There are to my knowledge not many active LD-collectors left in Denmark. I'd like to be wronged her, so please tell me I am mistaken!

It's in many ways the same movies people seem to have bought here in Denmark (anyone need a copy of Speed?), so I'm beginning to look outside Denmark for new LDs. But the weight of these babies makes it an expensive hobby all of a sudden!

I've got two Pioneer CLD-925, a CLD-2950 that needs fixing - and a couple of other players (from buying collections). And oh yeah!: Still got my first CLD-1450 that I bought for like 40$ in 2001. Its from 1990 but is still going strong.

My set-up is simple. Laserdisc through a Panasonic LCD-projector, audio via a vintage Luxman. I quit surround when my AC3-surround reciever broke down, but maybe someday I'll reintroduce it in the livingroom.

Laserdisc is still looking good in 2011 in my view. I fully realize that there is a rather big amount of nostaligia involved, but I find that ok. I'm on the blu-ray-thing as well, and of course I like the detailed pictures, the stunning colors and so on.

But at the same time blu-ray is in my view nothing more than a super-DVD, and I do find that there is a certain texture, or picture-quality, on laserdisc that is (in lack of better words) more truly cinematic - regardles of the lower resolution and etc. They never got that on DVDs and I doubt they'll get that on Blu-Ray.

So I'm not saying that LD is better than HD; all I'm saying is that LD still has something to offer as well.

Well, this is basically me, my views on LDs. Glad to be here!

Cheers/ Ynz

Welcome!

I would disagree with Shakespeare this time: There is nothing rotten in the Kingdom of Denmark

Julien

Much like sweden I guess =) Welcome!

Welcome home ynz !
Great story and thanks for your views !
Another one joins the fold !!!
Awesome to have another Dane on board !!!

Thanx guys!



Is there any scandinavian shops or sites where there's still being sold and/or traded laserdiscs, I wonder...?