Could there still be a treasure trove of sealed laserdiscs out there just waiting to be discovered?

Not in Japan anyway. Pioneer LDC closed their Ebisu office with a firesale of most of their stocks then discontinued the company to turn it into GENEON (Pioneer DVD).

Julien

I highly doubt it.

I would hazard a guess that the best remaining titles have long since been snapped up by either collectors or speculators who have been slowing selling titles one at a time back onto the market. They probably went round all the closing laserdisc stores and cherry picked the best remaining stock.

I would expect to see some large private laserdisc collections appear on places like Ebay in the future as collectors pass away or decide to sell their treasures however I cannot imagine any warehouses remaining that are filled with new/sealed stock.

I think it is entirely possible. We can hope.

Oh Yea ! My Home....... LoL

I am still amazed to see new troves of factory sealed LDs show up on eBay. Most seem to be coming out of estate auctions from sources like warehouses and storage garages. I know this is hard for all of us here to understand, but there was always more supply than demand when it came to LD.

"J"

I am positive there is stuff to be had still. Just the other day I got 300 discs and a player for 275 dollars. Well worth it as 50 of them were music titles. I see stuff every so often and while it is harder to find stuff it is still possible. We can always see.

Actually this is already happening...as in the sell off.

And these collections have been showing up not exactly on ebay.

Try this...if your city or town has a mom and pop shop that sells old records go on in there and ask them if they have any laserdiscs. The reason i tell u this option to try...is because those that do not know what a laserdisc is often assume that what they are looking at is a record and often get rid of them with there old records. And it seems that the last few years...people that have had older relatives pass on and have to go through their personal effects have often sold off what they assume are records to these mom and pop record shops.

So try it....you may just find some good LD's...i have actually had success finding a few good titles in this way rescently.

You are absolutely right. I got my all time best laserdisc buy in an old antique shop over in England....the owner of the shop had acquired a large music collection.
In amongst mostly LP records was a set of about 100 or so Japanese LDs, all Western music titles and many still sealed or in beautiful used condition. Looking back most were incredibly rare titles. Each was priced at just £1 ($1.50) as the owner presumably thought these were LPs and just wanted rid of them....this was 6 years ago when LPs were really out of fashion and just considered junk not even worth allocating floorspace to. I bought the entire set and the seller then told me he had some more which he hadn't sorted and asked if I was interested.....he proceeded to pull out another box of about 70 laserdiscs - again all music titles. I have all of these now in my collection and many are amongst my most treasured discs - a good few I have never seen another copy of for sale anywhere in the world. Even I didn't fully comprehend the value of some of those titles at the time as I had only just started collecting LDs although I knew they were worth more than a £1 each!!

Sealed, mint or used LDs I'm happy with any. What I'd really love to find is a warehouse of brand new players.

That would be nice the DVLs on ebay are very few at the moment.

I have 2 so I am feeling the love, lol. They are nice. I have a 909 that I am going to be getting rid of once I clean it up.

A while back I bought some LDs of a local guy at his home. He had 100s of sealed LDs. He was a salesman in the 1990s and when his distribution company close, he took home a lot of LDs. It was pretty cool to see at the LDs there.

I think some must exist at the film company's like Paramount or Fox or something.