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sega3dmm
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Post subject: The Laserdisc Survey (Fall 2011) Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 23:57 |
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Joined: 05 Oct 2010, 00:53 Posts: 94 Location: United States Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 1 time
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After reading the link below, I thought it would be a great idea if everyone on the LDDB.com forums would take this. http://www.mindspring.com/~laserguru/survey.htmI'll just jot down these categories, and to be a part of the survey, you can reply to this thread to submit your answers. You can only place UP TO 3 Laserdiscs for each category. 1) Laserdisc Player(s) Used 2) Best Looking Laserdisc 3) Worst Looking Laserdisc (Not laser-rot related) 4) Best Sounding Disc - Mono/Stereo/Matrix Surround 5) Best Sounding Disc - Dolby Digital AC-3 6) Best Sounding Disc - DTS 7) Worst Sounding Disc (Any sound format, not laser-rot related) 8) Favorite All-Around Demo Disc (Audio and video presentation) 9) All-Around Worst Disc You Own (Not laser-rot related) 10) Best Package Art 11) Best Gatefold Jacket 12) Worst Package Art Or Gatefold 13) Best Box Set 14) Worst Box Set 15) Best Audio Commentary 16) Worst Audio Commentary 17) Best Supplements 18) Worst Supplements 19) Best Remaster 20) Worst Remaster 21) Best-Chosen Side Breaks 22) Worst Side Breaks 23) Favorite Movie On Disc, Regardless of Presentation Quality 24) Favorite Guilty-Pleasure Movie on Disc (Perhaps not a good movie in itself, but one that makes a great laserdisc) 25) Movie You Are Most Embarrassed To Admit That You Own 26) Worst Case of Laser-Rot You Have Experienced 27) Approximate Number of Laserdisc Titles In Your Collection 28) First Laserdisc Ever Purchased 29) Movie You Own The Most Editions Of (Any video format) 30) Rarest/Most Valuable Disc Owned 31) Favorite Laserdisc In Your Collection 32) Most Wanted Laserdisc Title (Actual releases only)
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Post subject: Re: The Laserdisc Survey (Fall 2011) Posted: 11 Oct 2011, 23:02 |
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Joined: 07 Mar 2010, 11:13 Posts: 195 Location: Burlington, Ontario, Canada Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 0 time
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1) Laserdisc Player(s) Used - CLD-D704, CLD-D502, CLD-S201 2) Best Looking Laserdisc - Star Wars Episode One, Tank Girl, Sixth Sense 3) Worst Looking Laserdisc (Not laser-rot related) - Gamera vs Gaos/Gamera vs Zigra 4) Best Sounding Disc - Mono/Stereo/Matrix Surround - Casper (Would love to get the DTS version though) 5) Best Sounding Disc - Dolby Digital AC-3 - Goldeneye, True Lies, The Matrix 6) Best Sounding Disc - DTS - Jurassic Park (With the proper adjustments to woofer and surround levels first) 7) Worst Sounding Disc (Any sound format, not laser-rot related) - My Bloody Valentine 8) Favorite All-Around Demo Disc (Audio and video presentation) - Star Wars Episode One, Jurassic Park DTS 9) All-Around Worst Disc You Own (Not laser-rot related) - Yanni Live At The Acropolis (Not my thing at all. Haha) 10) Best Package Art - Cannibal Ferox 11) Best Gatefold Jacket - The Graduate (Criterion) 12) Worst Package Art Or Gatefold - Hudson Hawk, Michael Bolton: Soul and Passion 13) Best Box Set - Star Wars Definitive Collection, Se7en (Criterion), Tron (Archive Collection) 14) Worst Box Set - The Abyss (Not exactly worst, just least good) 15) Best Audio Commentary - Robocop (Criterion), The Graduate (Criterion) 16) Worst Audio Commentary - Haven't listened to enough to answer that one yet 17) Best Supplements - Se7en (Criterion), Tron (Archive Collection), Robocop (Criterion) 18) Worst Supplements - None that I've seen yet 19) Best Remaster - Jason and the Argonauts (Criterion) 20) Worst Remaster - Gamera vs Gaos/Gamera vs Zigra 21) Best-Chosen Side Breaks - Pulp Fiction (Criterion), Se7en (Criterion) 22) Worst Side Breaks - Lifeforce 23) Favorite Movie On Disc, Regardless of Presentation Quality - Robocop. It's simply my favourite movie 24) Favorite Guilty-Pleasure Movie on Disc (Perhaps not a good movie in itself, but one that makes a great laserdisc) - Devo: We're All Devo 25) Movie You Are Most Embarrassed To Admit That You Own - Yanni Live at the Acropolis 26) Worst Case of Laser-Rot You Have Experienced - Barb Wire 27) Approximate Number of Laserdisc Titles In Your Collection - 260 28) First Laserdisc Ever Purchased - After the ones I got for free, I do believe it was a copy of Jurassic Park 29) Movie You Own The Most Editions Of (Any video format) - Robocop (Criterion CAV, Criterion CLV, Image P&S, MGM DVD, Sony DVD Steelbook, Blu-ray) 30) Rarest/Most Valuable Disc Owned - X-Men (Sealed), End Of Days, Sixth Sense 31) Favorite Laserdisc In Your Collection - Star Wars Definitive Collection Boxed Set 32) Most Wanted Laserdisc Title (Actual releases only) - Titan AE
_________________ CLD-D704 (Main), DVL-700 (Backup), Sony MOD RF1 (Main demod), Sony SDP-EP9ES (Backup demod)
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laserdiscoking
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Post subject: Re: The Laserdisc Survey (Fall 2011) Posted: 12 Oct 2011, 03:56 |
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Joined: 19 Feb 2010, 11:44 Posts: 151 Location: United States Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 4 times
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1) Laserdisc Player(s) Used- Pioneer CLD-V2600 Industrial Player 2) Best Looking Laserdisc- Deep Rising 3) Worst Looking Laserdisc (Not laser-rot related)- Looking For Mr. Goodbar 4) Best Sounding Disc - Mono/Stereo/Matrix Surround American Gigolo (mono)/Miami Vice: Prodigal Son (stereo)/Amadeus: Pioneer Special Edition(surround) 5) Best Sounding Disc - Dolby Digital AC-3- I don't have an AC-3 Demodulator or digital coaxial/optical output 6) Best Sounding Disc - DTS- Never heard a DTS laserdisc 7) Worst Sounding Disc (Any sound format, not laser-rot related) High Plains Drifter Discovision 8) Favorite All-Around Demo Disc (Audio and video presentation) Duran Duran-Decade 9) All-Around Worst Disc You Own (Not laser-rot related) Lawrence of Arabia (RCA Pan & Scan), a travesty 10) Best Package Art The Thin Red Line (Japan) 11) Best Gatefold Jacket Bram Stoker's Dracula: Criterion 12) Worst Package Art Or Gatefold License To Kill 13) Best Box Set- The giant Gettysburg box set 14) Worst Box Set ET(original CAV) or Jurassic Park, both pointless box set presentations 15) Best Audio Commentary- Spinal Tap: Criterion 16) Worst Audio Commentary- Star Wars Definitive or Darling: Criterion 17) Best Supplements Nightmare on Elm Street Elite Special Edition, Spartacus: Criterion 18) Worst Supplements Schindler's List Box Set, same disc as the regular release 19) Best Remaster- Days of Heaven Widescreen Remaster 20) Worst Remaster- Hoosiers 21) Best-Chosen Side Breaks I don't know 22) Worst Side Breaks The Godfather Trilogy 1901-1980 23) Favorite Movie On Disc, Regardless of Presentation Quality The Wild Life 24) Favorite Guilty-Pleasure Movie on Disc (Perhaps not a good movie in itself, but one that makes a great laserdisc) Funny: The Movie 25) Movie You Are Most Embarrassed To Admit That You Own- Wham! in China: Foreign Skies 26) Worst Case of Laser-Rot You Have Experienced- The Sword and The Sorcerer or Midnight Express Pan & Scan 27) Approximate Number of Laserdisc Titles In Your Collection- ~250 28) First Laserdisc Ever Purchased- Star Wars, the time compressed CBS/Fox version 29) Movie You Own The Most Editions Of (Any video format) not anymore but at one time Beverly Hills Cop (2 LDs, 1 DVD, 1 VHS, 1 8mm, 1 Philips CD-i VCD) 30) Rarest/Most Valuable Disc Owned- The Game: Criterion 31) Favorite Laserdisc In Your Collection- The Outer Limits Box Set vol 1-4 32) Most Wanted Laserdisc Title (Actual releases only)- Visconti's The Leopard and Japan: Oil on Canvas, both Japanese releases
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Post subject: Re: The Laserdisc Survey (Fall 2011) Posted: 12 Oct 2011, 22:22 |
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1) Laserdisc Player(s) Used - Pioneer CLD-704 2) Best Looking Laserdisc - Seven: Criterion 3) Worst Looking Laserdisc (Not laser-rot related) - Lifeforce (1985) [SF078-5063] 4) Best Sounding Disc - Mono/Stereo/Matrix Surround - Akira: Criterion 5) Best Sounding Disc - Dolby Digital AC-3 - Stargate 6) Best Sounding Disc - DTS - Jurassic Park 7) Worst Sounding Disc (Any sound format, not laser-rot related) - n/a 8) Favorite All-Around Demo Disc (Audio and video presentation) - Jurassic Park DTS 9) All-Around Worst Disc You Own (Not laser-rot related) 10) Best Package Art - Hellraiser: Deluxe Collector's Edition 11) Best Gatefold Jacket - Hard Boiled: Criterion 12) Worst Package Art Or Gatefold 13) Best Box Set - Star Wars Definitive 14) Worst Box Set - War of the Roses (why is this a box-set?) 15) Best Audio Commentary - Evil Dead 2 16) Worst Audio Commentary 17) Best Supplements 18) Worst Supplements 19) Best Remaster 20) Worst Remaster 21) Best-Chosen Side Breaks 22) Worst Side Breaks - The Big Lebowski 23) Favorite Movie On Disc, Regardless of Presentation Quality 24) Favorite Guilty-Pleasure Movie on Disc (Perhaps not a good movie in itself, but one that makes a great laserdisc) 25) Movie You Are Most Embarrassed To Admit That You Own - Dr. Giggles 26) Worst Case of Laser-Rot You Have Experienced - Bad Boys 27) Approximate Number of Laserdisc Titles In Your Collection - 150 28) First Laserdisc Ever Purchased - Star Wars Definitive 29) Movie You Own The Most Editions Of (Any video format) - Pulp Fiction (widescreen VHS, DVD, regular laserdisc, Criterion LD, Blu-ray) 30) Rarest/Most Valuable Disc Owned - The Game: Criterion 31) Favorite Laserdisc In Your Collection - Jurassic Park DTS 32) Most Wanted Laserdisc Title (Actual releases only) - Braindead
EDIT: added a few more and changed worst looking disc (previously had Nightmare 5 but that was due to my setup more than the LD itself)
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Post subject: Re: The Laserdisc Survey (Fall 2011) Posted: 15 Oct 2011, 17:19 |
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Joined: 24 Jun 2010, 10:23 Posts: 1645 Location: Sweden Has thanked: 11 times Been thanked: 79 times
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1) Laserdisc Player(s) Used - Pioneer CLD-R7G, CLD-D505, CLD-990 2) Best Looking Laserdisc - Blade Runner (Criterion CAV) 3) Worst Looking Laserdisc (Not laser-rot related) - Highlander (P&S-edition) 4) Best Sounding Disc - Mono/Stereo/Matrix Surround - Apocalypse Now (AC3-edition) 5) Best Sounding Disc - Dolby Digital AC-3 - N/A 6) Best Sounding Disc - DTS - N/A 7) Worst Sounding Disc (Any sound format, not laser-rot related) - Highlander (P&S-edition) 8) Favorite All-Around Demo Disc (Audio and video presentation) - Blade Runner (Criterion CAV) 9) All-Around Worst Disc You Own (Not laser-rot related) - Highlander (P&S-edition) 10) Best Package Art - Lat Sau San Taam (Japanese edition, Pioneer) 11) Best Gatefold Jacket - Mononoke-Hime 12) Worst Package Art Or Gatefold - Anything where it's just the titles and nothing else. 13) Best Box Set - Neon Genesis Evangelion: Movie collection, The Beatles anthology 14) Worst Box Set - Looney Tunes box set vol. 1 (Totally overrated IMO) 15) Best Audio Commentary - N/A 16) Worst Audio Commentary - N/A 17) Best Supplements - Anything by Criterion 18) Worst Supplements - American Graffiti and Amadeus (the trailers should be after the film) 19) Best Remaster - Apocalypse Now (AC3-edition) 20) Worst Remaster - N/A 21) Best-Chosen Side Breaks - Pulp Fiction (Criterion) 22) Worst Side Breaks - Reservoir Dogs (Widescreen, the P&S is supposed to have a better side break) 23) Favorite Movie On Disc, Regardless of Presentation Quality - Shichinin no samurai 24) Favorite Guilty-Pleasure Movie on Disc (Perhaps not a good movie in itself, but one that makes a great laserdisc) - Independence Day 25) Movie You Are Most Embarrassed To Admit That You Own - In & Out 26) Worst Case of Laser-Rot You Have Experienced - The Shawshank Redemption 27) Approximate Number of Laserdisc Titles In Your Collection - 250 28) First Laserdisc Ever Purchased - The Terminator (THX-edition) 29) Movie You Own The Most Editions Of (Any video format) - Blade Runner (nine copies; 1 Vhs, 3 Laserdisc, 1 Dvds, 2 Blu-Rays, 2 Hd-Dvds) 30) Rarest/Most Valuable Disc Owned - Stalker, Neon Genesis Evangelion: Movie Collection 31) Favorite Laserdisc In Your Collection - Shichinin no samurai and Blade Runner (Criterion, CAV) 32) Most Wanted Laserdisc Title (Actual releases only) - Pasqualino Settebellezze and Ying hung boon sik
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Post subject: Re: The Laserdisc Survey (Fall 2011) Posted: 25 Oct 2011, 04:25 |
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1) Laserdisc Player(s) Used - Pioneer Elite CLD-97, Pioneer Elite CLD-79, Pioneer Elite CLD-59 among others 2) Best Looking Laserdisc - Austin Powers Movies, Enemy of the State, Matrix 3) Worst Looking Laserdisc (Not laser-rot related) - Most LDs pressed before 1990 4) Best Sounding Disc - Mono/Stereo/Matrix Surround - Generals Daughter, The Firm, Indiana Jones Trilogy 5) Best Sounding Disc - Dolby Digital AC-3 - Matrix, Lethal Weapon 4, US Marshals 6) Best Sounding Disc - DTS - Crimson Tide, Broken Arrow, Apollo 13 7) Worst Sounding Disc (Any sound format, not laser-rot related) Bottle Rocket 8) Favorite All-Around Demo Disc (Audio and video presentation) - Austin Powers DTS, Broken Arrow DTS, True Lies DTS among others 9) All-Around Worst Disc You Own (Not laser-rot related) - ? 10) Best Package Art - Older Horror Movies 11) Best Gatefold Jacket - Halloween Criterion #247, Mission Impossible 12) Worst Package Art Or Gatefold - ? 13) Best Box Set - Terminator 2 14) Worst Box Set - ? 15) Best Audio Commentary - N/A 16) Worst Audio Commentary - N/A 17) Best Supplements - N/A 18) Worst Supplements - N/A 19) Best Remaster - ? 20) Worst Remaster - ? 21) Best-Chosen Side Breaks - ? 22) Worst Side Breaks - ? 23) Favorite Movie On Disc, Regardless of Presentation Quality - Last Boyscout, Payback, Halloween H20 DTS 24) Favorite Guilty-Pleasure Movie on Disc (Perhaps not a good movie in itself, but one that makes a great laserdisc) - Vegas Vacation, Rush Hour DTS, Kingpin DTS 25) Movie You Are Most Embarrassed To Admit That You Own - Shadow Conspiracy, Waynes World 1 and 2, Home Alone 1 and 2 26) Worst Case of Laser-Rot You Have Experienced - Replacement Killers, Ace Ventura 2 27) Approximate Number of Laserdisc Titles In Your Collection - 200 28) First Laserdisc Ever Purchased - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 29) Movie You Own The Most Editions Of (Any video format) - Friday the 13th part 1-9(VHS,LD,DVD) 30) Rarest/Most Valuable Disc Owned - Double Jeopardy, Sleepy Hollow, Scream Uncut DTS 31) Favorite Laserdisc In Your Collection - Almost all of them 32) Most Wanted Laserdisc Title (Actual releases only) - The World is Not Enough (Japanese Release), U-571 (Japanese Release), Mission Impossible 2(Japanese Release)
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Post subject: Re: The Laserdisc Survey (Fall 2011) Posted: 14 Dec 2011, 20:28 |
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Joined: 30 Aug 2005, 15:38 Posts: 3417 Location: Pennsylvania Has thanked: 77 times Been thanked: 143 times
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Finall got around to doing this . . .
1) Laserdisc Player(s) Used: (in order of which I owned first to most recent) Pioneer CLD-D4xx (it was an asian model with multi-voltage options), Sony MDP-A3, Pioneer DVL-919, Elite CLD-79, CLD-R7G, CLD-D605, CLD-V880, CLD-D504, Runco LJR II, DVL-700 (w/firmware upgrade to DVL-90), Panasonic LX-1000u, Panasonic LX-900u 2) Best Looking Laserdisc: The Fifth Element, Star Wars Ep 1: The Phantom Menace, Jurassic Park (DTS) 3) Worst Looking Laserdisc (Not laser-rot related): Eastern Condors (Tai Seng release), Get Crazy (JPN) 4) Best Sounding Disc - Mono/Stereo/Matrix Surround: Aladdin, Cowboy Bebop (any of the volumes) 5) Best Sounding Disc - Dolby Digital AC-3: Saving Private Ryan, Pink Floyd The Wall (THX MGM Collectors Edition), 6) Best Sounding Disc - DTS: Jurassic Park, The Rock, Stargate 7) Worst Sounding Disc (Any sound format, not laser-rot related): can't really think of one 8) Favorite All-Around Demo Disc (Audio and video presentation): Jurassic Park DTS 9) All-Around Worst Disc You Own (Not laser-rot related): Eastern Condors (Tai Seng), Get Crazy (JPN) 10) Best Package Art: Deathstalker, Dinosaur Island, The Warrior and the Sorceress 11) Best Gatefold Jacket: Tenchi Muyo: Book of Heaven, Tenchi Muyo: Book of Earth, Highlander: Director's Cut 12) Worst Package Art Or Gatefold: Almost all of those Image releases that just use the VHS cover art overtop the picture of a Laserdisc, Dawn of the Dead Box Set (Elite--just a black box with the logo) 13) Best Box Set: Gettysburg: Collector's Edition (just wish the transfer was better) 14) Worst Box Set: I guess I'm lucky where I haven't been disappointed by any of the box sets I own 15) Best Audio Commentary: Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1998 CLV release), The Thing: Signature Collection, Escape from New York: Collectors Edition 16) Worst Audio Commentary: haven't been too disappointed with any of the commentaries I've listened to on LD. DVD on the other hand . . . 17) Best Supplements: Gettysburg: Collectors Edition Box, Toy Story Box Set 18) Worst Supplements: any disc that callls itself a "special edition" but has only a trailer or is letterboxed 19) Best Remaster: Pink Floyd The Wall THX MGM Collectors Edition (like night and day from the previous LD releases), Lady and the Tramp THX Full Frame (since it's the only way to get the Academy Ratio version outside of the VHS release the same year) 20) Worst Remaster: any Disney animated movie where the restorers get happy with the color palette 21) Best-Chosen Side Breaks: never really put much stock in this 22) Worst Side Breaks: see above 23) Favorite Movie On Disc, Regardless of Presentation Quality: Dawn of the Dead, The Shawshank Redemption, A Shot in the Dark 24) Favorite Guilty-Pleasure Movie on Disc (Perhaps not a good movie in itself, but one that makes a great laserdisc): Heavy Metal, Golden Boy, Humanoids from the Deep 25) Movie You Are Most Embarrassed To Admit That You Own: Taboo, Double Dragon 26) Worst Case of Laser-Rot You Have Experienced: Swan Lake: Royal Ballet (one side is almost unplayable) 27) Approximate Number of Laserdisc Titles In Your Collection: 500+ 28) First Laserdisc Ever Purchased: Tenchi Muyo vol. 1 29) Movie You Own The Most Editions Of (Any video format): probably Dawn of the Dead (2xVHS, 3xLD, 2xDVD) 30) Rarest/Most Valuable Disc Owned: can't be sure 31) Favorite Laserdisc In Your Collection: too many to list! 32) Most Wanted Laserdisc Title (Actual releases only): The Gates of Hell (JPN), Sanguelia/Zombie/Zombi 2 (JPN), Space Mutiny (TW), Dinosaur Island
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Post subject: Re: The Laserdisc Survey (Fall 2011) Posted: 14 Dec 2011, 23:35 |
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This is going by what I have experinced previously and by other that I have seen as my LaserDisc player is still broken! Most of these will by Discovision/MVC titles as thats what I focus on. 1) Laserdisc Player(s) Used LD-660 and CLD-1910K2) Best Looking Laserdisc Psycho CLV (Discovision)3) Worst Looking Laserdisc (Not laser-rot related) Jesus Christ Super Star (4 Side Discovision pressing)4) Best Sounding Disc - Mono/Stereo/Matrix Surround White Music (Japanese Version)5) Best Sounding Disc - Dolby Digital AC-3 Mars Attacks6) Best Sounding Disc - DTS Not Applicable7) Worst Sounding Disc (Any sound format, not laser-rot related) Last Married Couple in America (Discovision) (Absolutely intolorable)8) Favorite All-Around Demo Disc (Audio and video presentation) Laser Optics II9) All-Around Worst Disc You Own (Not laser-rot related) Frenzy (Discovision)10) Best Package Art Return of the Pink Panther (Awesome characterures)11) Best Gatefold Jacket Terminator 212) Worst Package Art Or Gatefold Bad Dreams13) Best Box Set Twin Peaks Complete Series (pretty amazing)14) Worst Box Set Jurassic Park15) Best Audio Commentary Dr. NO (becuase of the banned Audio commentary)16) Worst Audio Commentary n/a17) Best Supplements Cannibal Ferox (come on, a 7" vinyl!)18) Worst Supplements Romagnolis's Table (come on, a card)19) Best Remaster n/A20) Worst Remaster N/A21) Best-Chosen Side Breaks Big 22) Worst Side Breaks Fellini's Cassanova (half way though a sentence)23) Favorite Movie On Disc, Regardless of Presentation Quality Alien or Mission Galatica: The Cylon Attack24) Favorite Guilty-Pleasure Movie on Disc (Perhaps not a good movie in itself, but one that makes a great laserdisc) Laser Optics II25) Movie You Are Most Embarrassed To Admit That You Own Mel Torme And Della Reese in Concert26) Worst Case of Laser-Rot You Have Experienced Jaws CLV (Dsicovision) It probably is LDrot27) Approximate Number of Laserdisc Titles In Your Collection 4328) First Laserdisc Ever Purchased Slaughterhouse-Five and White Music29) Movie You Own The Most Editions Of (Any video format) Alien (VHS, DVD, Laserdisc,Blu-Ray,Digital Copy30) Rarest/Most Valuable Disc Owned Sluaghterhouse-Five 31) Favorite Laserdisc In Your Collection Slaughterhouse-Five32) Most Wanted Laserdisc Title (Actual releases only) Any Educational Discovision titles
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Post subject: Re: The Laserdisc Survey (Fall 2011) Posted: 15 Dec 2011, 01:23 |
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I'm going to put in a few answers now, & come back after a while to fill more in. 1) Laserdisc Player(s) Used Sony HIL-C2EX, Pioneer CLD-D704, Mitsubishi M-V7057 (D704 clone), Pioneer LD-V8000, Pioneer CLD-V710 (karaoke model), Pioneer LD-660 (once upon a time) 2) Best Looking Laserdisc3) Worst Looking Laserdisc (Not laser-rot related) I have a few overall bad ones, but Gall Force New Era 1 (US) has a segment which looks like defective tape 4) Best Sounding Disc - Mono/Stereo/Matrix Surround5) Best Sounding Disc - Dolby Digital AC-3 Wings of Honneamise Memorial Box (JP rerelease)6) Best Sounding Disc - DTS don't have any! 7) Worst Sounding Disc (Any sound format, not laser-rot related) Area 88 Act 3 (US) — sounds like telephone audio 8) Favorite All-Around Demo Disc (Audio and video presentation)9) All-Around Worst Disc You Own (Not laser-rot related)10) Best Package Art11) Best Gatefold Jacket12) Worst Package Art Or Gatefold13) Best Box Set The Japanese KOR TV box — each disc is in an individual sleeve, & 1-6 & 7-12 are then in half-boxes which slide into the outer box, & each half-box has a cloth tab on it, to pull it from the outer box with. I really wish more sets had followed that example, because sliding the single, huge inner box out of, say, the Maison Ikkoku TV box is very difficult. 14) Worst Box Set The AnimEigo Urusei Yatsura TV set, hands down the worst packaging of any LD I have. Its other faults could be borne if the discs didn't stick so firmly in the vinyl sleeves. Runner up is the X Movie box (JP) — I don't much like the front-&-back style boxes to begin with, & half the depth of this one is a foam pad. If you took it out, you could easily fit in your X2 & Tokyo Babylon discs. 15) Best Audio Commentary16) Worst Audio Commentary17) Best Supplements Third place has a lot of competition, but I'd say maybe the Roan "Fantastic Planet" (US) — an entirely separate film! Second place belongs to the Nadia box (JP), because of the omake films. But the combination of soundtrack album & production art stills on the Honneamise Memorial Box is still king. 18) Worst Supplements the El-Hazard AC-3 box (JP), just a collection of TV spots 19) Best Remaster20) Worst Remaster21) Best-Chosen Side Breaks22) Worst Side Breaks Tenchi Muyo Episode 13 (US) — actually a disc break, which should only be a side break, & very awkwardly timed 23) Favorite Movie On Disc, Regardless of Presentation Quality24) Favorite Guilty-Pleasure Movie on Disc (Perhaps not a good movie in itself, but one that makes a great laserdisc) perhaps The Ultimate Teacher (US)25) Movie You Are Most Embarrassed To Admit That You Own possibly (since I got rid of MD Geist and The Humanoid) Battle Royal High School (US) — hard to believe AnimEigo released this stinker 26) Worst Case of Laser-Rot You Have Experienced27) Approximate Number of Laserdisc Titles In Your Collection 500 28) First Laserdisc Ever Purchased Tenchi Muyo Episode 1 (US)29) Movie You Own The Most Editions Of (Any video format) Gunbuster (3 LD editions) or Wings of Honneamise (US LD, JP LD, US BD/DVD combo) 30) Rarest/Most Valuable Disc Owned Possibly Imperial Wedding Ceremony (MUSE)31) Favorite Laserdisc In Your Collection32) Most Wanted Laserdisc Title (Actual releases only)
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Post subject: Re: The Laserdisc Survey (Fall 2011) Posted: 03 Mar 2014, 02:04 |
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1) Laserdisc Player(s) Used: Pioneer CLD-V2600 and one other Pioneer one that I forgot. 2) Best Looking Laserdisc: Apollo 13 3) Worst Looking Laserdisc (Not laser-rot related): The Godfather Japan Import 4) Best Sounding Disc - Mono/Stereo/Matrix Surround 5) Best Sounding Disc - Dolby Digital AC-3: Goldeneye Special Edition 6) Best Sounding Disc - DTS 7) Worst Sounding Disc (Any sound format, not laser-rot related): Ransom 8) Favorite All-Around Demo Disc (Audio and video presentation) 9) All-Around Worst Disc You Own (Not laser-rot related): Batman 10) Best Package Art: Close Encounters of The Third Kind Criterion Collection 11) Best Gatefold Jacket: The Godfather Japan Import 12) Worst Package Art Or Gatefold: The Guns of Navaron 13) Best Box Set: Clint Eastwood Collection 14) Worst Box Set: The Abyss Box Set 15) Best Audio Commentary 16) Worst Audio Commentary 17) Best Supplements 18) Worst Supplements 19) Best Remaster 20) Worst Remaster 21) Best-Chosen Side Breaks: 22) Worst Side Breaks 23) Favorite Movie On Disc, Regardless of Presentation Quality: Wyatt Earp 24) Favorite Guilty-Pleasure Movie on Disc (Perhaps not a good movie in itself, but one that makes a great laserdisc): The Sound of Music 25) Movie You Are Most Embarrassed To Admit That You Own: The Sound of Music 26) Worst Case of Laser-Rot You Have Experienced: Back to The Future, Part II 27) Approximate Number of Laserdisc Titles In Your Collection: 94 28) First Laserdisc Ever Purchased: The Hunt for Red October 29) Movie You Own The Most Editions Of (Any video format) 30) Rarest/Most Valuable Disc Owned: Rarest: Godfather, The (1972) [SF057-1634], Most Valued: James and the Giant Peach (1996) [PILA-1447] 31) Favorite Laserdisc In Your Collection: Marooned, 1968
32) Most Wanted Laserdisc Title (Actual releases only): Stalker, 1979 Andrei Tarkovksy
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Post subject: Re: The Laserdisc Survey (Fall 2011) Posted: 25 Nov 2019, 07:32 |
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I hope this isn't too crazy a necrobump. Found it searching "ugly" because I was hoping to be steered away from awful pressings and transfers.
1) Laserdisc Player(s) Used = Marantz 520 I think 2) Best Looking Laserdisc = Bullets over Broadway, Sleep with Me 3) Worst Looking Laserdisc (Not laser-rot related) = City of Joy. Truly unwatchable blown up. 4) Best Sounding Disc - Mono/Stereo/Matrix Surround = Salaam Bombay or The Year of Living Dangerously or The Moderns 5) Best Sounding Disc - Dolby Digital AC-3 = na 6) Best Sounding Disc - DTS = unsure 7) Worst Sounding Disc (Any sound format, not laser-rot related) = nothing comes to mind 8) Favorite All-Around Demo Disc (Audio and video presentation) = na 9) All-Around Worst Disc You Own (Not laser-rot related) = Quincy Jones something, just another echo chamber documentary 10) Best Package Art = Touch 11) Best Gatefold Jacket = Grand Canyon, Rush 12) Worst Package Art Or Gatefold = The Music Box 13) Best Box Set = na 14) Worst Box Set = na 15) Best Audio Commentary = haven't tried many 16) Worst Audio Commentary = Contact 17) Best Supplements 18) Worst Supplements 19) Best Remaster 20) Worst Remaster = Dr Zhivago 21) Best-Chosen Side Breaks = The Rock, Contact 22) Worst Side Breaks = funny question, wish I had a better answer. The Hand that Rocks the Cradle? 23) Favorite Movie On Disc, Regardless of Presentation Quality = Grand Canyon 24) Favorite Guilty-Pleasure Movie on Disc (Perhaps not a good movie in itself, but one that makes a great laserdisc) 25) Movie You Are Most Embarrassed To Admit That You Own = I'm not embarassed to use a Fatal Instinct avatar, so none 26) Worst Case of Laser-Rot You Have Experienced = Violets are Blue, intruded on the audio 27) Approximate Number of Laserdisc Titles In Your Collection = a very small number 28) First Laserdisc Ever Purchased = The Year of Living Danerously 29) Movie You Own The Most Editions Of (Any video format) = na, they're all one apiece 30) Rarest/Most Valuable Disc Owned = the one I'm waiting on to go through sale from this site 31) Favorite Laserdisc In Your Collection = redundant with 23 32) Most Wanted Laserdisc Title (Actual releases only) = GUNNM 33) [I'm adding this] Favorite 1:33 Title = House of Cards
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