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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 08 May 2016, 14:44 |
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yeah, those discs are nasty looking! nowadays every laserdisc from PDQ must be dead and unplayable?
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je280
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 08 May 2016, 21:41 |
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samaron wrote: Not every disc is unplayable or bad in general. Though, a lot of LDs and CDs from that factory do suffer from production issues. I'm fairly certain I do have a good PDO UK disc too. Yes they were pretty poor & they had problems with almost every format (or was it every format?!?) produced at the PDO Blackburn plant over its lifetime - they did produce good discs on occasions though. Their pressing (just as an example) of THX 1138 on the TARTAN VIDEO series number TVL 002 was a rather good issue with a very clear transfer & over the years I have had 5 or 6 of them pass through my hands & all the copies were very good indeed with no issues whatsoever, there are a few PDO UK titles that were good throughout the issues production run. Sadly though more often than not PDO UK LDs (& anything else produced by them) are worth checking out first as some titles now are almost impossible to find playable copies of while others had problems with some discs from a production run with some discs from the same run having no playback issues at all - they never really ever had a good reputation as a disc producer. Their discs, even some of the latter issued ones, can suffer the visual issue of going grey & blackening over time & I have some that show this "problem" that still play well while a couple of other similar discs will no longer play at all - a bit of a turkey shoot with so many of them now.
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 12 May 2016, 22:16 |
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samaron wrote: That one is probably dead. PDO UK had some serious quality control issues (not only with LD), so that is the result of extremely poor manufacturing. Here is an example from my collection. You can see it is beginning to "fog" around the edges, and also have a black spot. This disc plays fine in the beginning, but halfway in, it is very distorted. Not something you would want to watch or listen to. I have on almost all opera Laserdisc exactly this black mist!
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rein-o
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 13 May 2016, 19:20 |
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But you do all know that the laser reads from the inside out and not to the exact edge, about 1/2 an inch in. so something like above would or should still play and the edge issues would not be an issue for poor or non playback. It would be another issue. ________________________________ the rein-o official signature:
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samaron
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 14 May 2016, 11:02 |
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I have others that have black death further into the disc. This was just the quickest example I could find in a hurry. Either way, the pictured disc is very distorted about halfway through. Plays fine in the beginning. Really impressive how awful the manufacturing is on PDO UK stuff.
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 09 Mar 2019, 03:53 |
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gypsy wrote: Also I must be fortunate because I have a rot free copy of Air Force One which is apparently a notorious LD. It took me awhile to replace my original copy of Air Force One but I did eventually find a rot free copy. Definitely like using this title as a demo for 5.1 (although the SuperBit DVD actually has the same DD mix). Anyway, in respect to rot. I used to have more rotted titles early on simply because any new title one buys back in the day would be fresh off the pressing plant and thus I would discover the rot issue two months or more down the road (in most cases). Fast forward 20+ years later, every title one buys now is used and has been exposed to the environment. Thus, if a disc has rotted, it would be very obvious right off the bat and one can simply return it to the seller (I do this all the time with any seller I deal with). My collection at the moment might have a rot percentage possibly in the 2% range but I haven't seen many of my titles in years so it could be higher. I guess I'll be disappointed when I play one of those discs one day.
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rein-o
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Post subject: Re: Your experiences with Laser Rot Posted: 09 Mar 2019, 15:43 |
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cplusplus wrote: My copy of Paul Simon: In Concert (1980) [PA-81-001] is so badly rotted, I can see through spots on the disc. 1st that's technically not rot, that's just messed up. I've had discs like that in the past. But how does it play??? Mine would play fine but that was about 8 years ago.
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