My name's Sean. I just got into collecting Laserdiscs a couple months ago. I guess I was intrigued by the idea of watching movies in an analogue format with a more film-like quality to them.
Pretty quickly I was able to track down a good condition DVL-700. I got it for $120, along with about 40 movies. It doesn't have the remote, but it works really well. Picture-wise, I have a non-HD DLP projector I got on Ebay, aimed at an old 60 inch home movie screen from the 1960s. It looks amazing! I was stunned. At first, I'd worried I'd just sunk all this money into a dead format, but there really is a difference. It's not quite as sharp as a newer format, but it just has this old film-like quality. It's like going to a movie theater a few decades ago. Very cool for a nostalgia-minded person like myself.
As far as the sound, I'm just using an old pair of computer speakers at the moment, but the store I bought the player at also had a Marantz receiver from the 90's that has inputs for AC3, so once I get the right speakers and a little more room, I'll be all set.
Anyway, I'm really excited to see that there's a whole community of people out there who appreciate this stuff. The rest of the world is really missing out.
One last thing: I think if I could track down any Laserdisc, it would be a copy of the Hillcrane release of Transformers: The Movie. It's one of my favorite movies and I can't imagine how amazing it would be to see it in this format. It's rather hard to find, though, I can see...
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I remember walking into an HMV with my father in NYC and looking around.
