Men in Black.

Arrived this week from Japan.

A View To A Kill (Letterbox)

Some laser discs were recommend to me on ebay while looking for a player. Despite the search for the player is not yet complete I could not resit to get my first LD. Got myself a copy of Hard Target, which is my favourite US release from John Woo.

Ringo Lam was another great Hong Kong movie director. I have only seen 2 movies from him (Contact and Maximum Risk). I enjoyed these 2 flicks.

LD seems to be a great format to get some good old HK movies of decent quality in general. I am just unsure if some of the less-known movies have English subtitles or not. I need to do some further research.

Added 4 different Dirty Pair Laserdiscs from the TV series. With OBI still in Shrink not sealed. Plus Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan first issue Analog audio only with OBI.

Hi, im the new one.

today i got my copy of IVANOVO DESTSTVO.
the previous ld´s i got where Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition ( German ), Blade Runner Directors Cut ( German ) , Fist of the North Star ( German )
This weekend i get the next package with Police Academy 3-6 and some other standard movies ( all german )

Just received ALIEN 1 through 4 domestic u.s.releases due to an itch and a bargain.
Saw the AC-3 version for sale in a batch and jumped.

Great condition for all four and reveling in the fun of inspecting a new arrival of LD goodness.

Cheers to the members.

My first ebay LD purchase hard target is still on the way to me. I purchased another LD just now from local trading plattform. This time I got True Lies.

I hope one the 2 discs arrives until next thursday because on that day I have appointment for checking out a LD player. I want to bring one the 2 discs testing purposes to see if the LD player I want to purchase is still working.

Starship Troopers (1997) [71716]

Found another copy at the local record store, thought id roll the dice and take my chances.
My other copy the picture is fine but the rot has started to affect the AC-3RF track and caused drop outs.

This one im hoping is a good, but realisticly it could be even worse

Soounds like another one of DADC USAs finest then!

Please let me know how things turned out. Starship Troopers is one of the movies I want to add to my collection but the high rot probability is not very encouraging.

So I am curious how lucky you are going to be with your second purchase of the movie.

Buying sealed new discs could probably delay rot procedure unless disc already start rottin' inside jacket
A new disc has not been exposed as much as a used one

Thanks for the advice. I will keep that in mind and try to sealed dics only of the movies that have high risk of disc rote.

Makes sense that you can delay the process when getting discs that have been exposed to external influences that much.

I have to disagree on this one.

The reason for rot is debonding of the glue that is holding the two discs together. This effect cannot be stopped by some plastic foil (foil is far from airtight when thinking long term).

Of course a used disc might have some mechanical wear, but there is literally no difference in rot probability.
This is only related to the production process and the glue used by the specific company. PDO UK seems to be a good example for a company that tried to save a buck for example.

I got a few sealed discs that were horrible rotters out of the box.

If the disc is open and rotten it is on the seller!
If you bought and opened a sealed LD it is on you!

By the way: I never encountered a disc were you were not able to see the rot. It is very obvious when looking at the pictures of the discs. So always check the pics or ask the seller for some detailed pictures of all sides.
If other members encountered „invisible rot“ please feel free to correct me.

Cheers,
Markus

Holy crap. You guys don’t know very much about rot if you think shrink wrap plays any factor whatsoever. It doesn’t. Not even the tiniest bit.

Buying only sealed versions of known rotters…that’s the worst possible advice. Now you’re paying max money for movies you cannot know the condition of. Bad idea to the power of bad idea.

THINK!

Ask the seller to play the movie. This is free and all good sellers will do this. The other possibility is to just not buy known rotters…

PDO UK rot was visible soon after being pressed. Rot can most certainly be invisible however.

Haha Zeta, we gave em double broadside within 60 seconds.

Thanks for the correction and the excurse in disc rot @myth and zeta. I could not have been more wrong with my thinking that sealed discs have a higher chance of survival.

But have to admit that I had no clue how disc rot works so agreed with the false info another user said.

So take a careful look at the discs before purchasing and ask the seller to show some footage of the disc in action before selling the only way to minimise the chance of getting a bad disc?

Avoiding the purchase of known rotters would be the best way of protection . Unfortunately I would be interested in getting some movies that are known rotters..