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blam1
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 26 Jan 2012, 01:36 |
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I had a handful of 3M titles rot - From the early Digital Sound era. "Dirty Dancing" and "Robocop" if I recall. Pioneer USA from 1982 thru 1984 were hit and miss. Anything from what I call "Technicisc I" was awful - these being "Greystoke", "Bolero", "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "Tuff Turf", etc. "Technidisc II" is generally pretty good, but not great. These would be titles like "Good Morning, Vietnam" and "Suspect". "Technidisc III" is the bulk of their product from 1991(ish) on. Their stuff is the best Technidisc ever produced. Mitsubishi from Japan had some rot problems - "Star Wars Trilogy", "Beauty and the Beast - WiP". DADC/Sony was terrible at the end. I look at the mint markings - typically anything below LDxx-002700 will be generally pretty good. Between LDxx-002700 and LDxx-03200 it is hit-and-miss. I was finally able to get a good copy of "Two if By Sea". Anything over LDxx-003200 is probably total junk. I have never found really good clean copies of "Starship Troopers", "Air Force One", "Striptease" or "The Devil's Own". I've yet to find a good "Johnny Mnemonic" which is LDVS-002780. I was eventually successful in finding a good "Out to Sea" (LDAC-003587) and "Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (LDVS-002881)
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ollieh82
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 30 Jan 2012, 11:50 |
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Joined: 27 May 2011, 16:09 Posts: 29 Location: United Kingdom Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 0 time
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Hey gents, the worst rotters i came across was Leon the professional and Ace Ventura 2. I had tried picking up another copy of Leon but found rot on that disc. its was very annoying because any release by SONY im very cautious and always email the seller when i see a film i need and ask about the condition and they always say its fine and it turns up rotted. My copies of Air Force One and Eraser are rot free!.
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brmanuk
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 31 Jan 2012, 03:14 |
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Joined: 23 Oct 2007, 21:50 Posts: 149 Location: Hong Kong Has thanked: 8 times Been thanked: 6 times
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kaosnews wrote: Is there someone with a good copy (without rot) of Eraser (1996) [14202]? I have 3 copies and they all are really bad. I do! There was a tiny bit of speckling for about 1 min when I last watched it 2 years ago, but that's it.
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ohreally
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 05 Feb 2012, 22:37 |
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Joined: 18 Sep 2011, 16:22 Posts: 140 Location: United States Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 0 time
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publius wrote: My father recounts horror stories of the bad LP pressings of the 1970s. Personally, my biggest problem with laser rot has been that one of the American anime publishers, AD Vision, used Sony DADC USA exclusively. So, while they didn't release nearly enough of their catalog on LD (so far as I am concerned), it's terribly difficult to find a clean copy of what they did release — & sometimes quite expensive, at least in the case of Battle Angle, which retains its value better than most anime LDs thanks to having been taken off the market a decade ago by James Cameron. I have "Battle Angel" on DVD and had no idea it was on LD; damn, another disc to buy... I digress- My "Getttysburg" CAV boxed set got the rot.
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chente
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 06 Feb 2012, 00:52 |
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Joined: 07 Jan 2005, 00:46 Posts: 334 Location: San Diego, CA United States Has thanked: 2 times Been thanked: 2 times
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I was really disappointed that my copy of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) [16-028] was rotted. I bought it a few years ago and finally got around to trying watch it last week and it was badly rotted throughout the disc.
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 25 Feb 2012, 15:34 |
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Learned the hard way from dadc not knowing that laserdiscs rotted then threw away several Heavy Metals & a Demolition Man i bought used & of course Eraser some titles surprised me Signature collection Field of Dreams the movie was fine but the second disc of extras got unplayable.
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smitken
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 06 Apr 2012, 16:43 |
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Joined: 24 Feb 2012, 13:12 Posts: 101 Location: United Kingdom Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 0 time
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edwin240170 wrote: Talking eraser, i found sofar only one perfect copy without laserrot at all, infact a hint how to make sure you got a good copy: look at the marking a good copy has A118 and B77 a bad copy has very low numbers A2 and B3; sofar many many bad copies all having low numbers I have just picked up a copy of eraser B56 and A43 unwatchable due to rot, disc looks mint as does the sleeve, really annoying Anyone got a clean copy and if so what are the numbers, it would be good to test this theory! I would really like a decent copy one day
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blam1
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 09 Apr 2012, 23:37 |
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chente wrote: I was really disappointed that my copy of Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) [16-028] was rotted. I bought it a few years ago and finally got around to trying watch it last week and it was badly rotted throughout the disc. I don't understand why, but these very early Japanese pressed titles are just a b**ch to find good copies of. "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" and "Galaxina" were both pressed by Universal Pioneer and I've never found a really clean copy of either. I've probably gone though a dozen "Galaxina" copies... On the other hand, some titles (like 1941 and Battlestar Galactica) were generally very good.
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 08:02 |
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Joined: 02 May 2006, 13:59 Posts: 1652 Location: United Kingdom Has thanked: 86 times Been thanked: 69 times
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Hellol Guys, Reading through all of your post's has got me worried about the next time that I play a movie. I would be gutted if I find a rotter, still if I am able to get hold of a Japanese version then I will be happy. Once I have everything connected I shall post any rotted findings on this site. Thank you anyway guys as it helps to indentify the titles that are known to have problems. Regards to all
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exinferis
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 27 Apr 2012, 11:01 |
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Yesterday I was watching DOLORES CLAIBORNE, a known rotter, which reminded me to look on the forum about this problem. At least, my copy was watchable, I wasn ´t too distracted, Side One was infected, side 2 less and side three, well, heavy rot with lots of blinking dots. I really wonder if it´s getting worse, have to check it in 5 years again. At least, these discs play, not like HD-DVds with "rot" that just won´t play anymore. Anyway it´s sad..
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 27 Apr 2012, 12:16 |
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i have an okay copy of eraser 14202 disc number:
A: LDVS-003048-A-A77 B: LDVS-003048-B-B58
only first 5 min of side a is speckled the rest perfect
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