Ok - What is your least favorite disc.

mikeystoyz · Posted: 30 Oct 2011, 23:25

We have your holy grail. What is your least favorite disc. I would have to say Under Siege. If I see another copy I am going to puke. Followed by Under Siege 2. Lol

Guest · Posted: 30 Oct 2011, 23:59

Honeysuckle Rose [1043] ... this would have been a great movie soundtrack on Laserdisc. Terrible mastering job on this LD ... really disappointing ... it sounded great in the movie theater.

ratkins · Posted: 31 Oct 2011, 01:37

The first release of The Guns of Navarone VLD3107. No pan or scan here, they simply cut the sides of the movie off leaving some scenes with characters speaking to each other and all you can see is what is between them.

firehorse_44 · Posted: 31 Oct 2011, 02:34

Disco Vision " Grey Lady Down "
Five sides!!!
Box technology just not there.....
The Video is fuzzy and the sound is less then spectacular !!
It is no brainer being so early in LD development but still ......
You Asked.... LOL

Guest · Posted: 31 Oct 2011, 03:58

bottle rocket and shadow conspiracy :thumbdown:

laserdisc_fan · Posted: 31 Oct 2011, 08:53

I love Brian Eno music but this disc is truly awful because of the strange footage and angle it is displayed at!

Brian Eno: Thursday Afternoon (1984) [CSLM 792]

nissling · Posted: 31 Oct 2011, 10:30

I would actually go right ahead and say The Golden Age Of Looney Tunes vol. 1. I'm aware of that it's something for collectors, but if you ask me, this box set is completely overrated. Looney Tunes has never been common here in Sweden though, when I was young they only showed stuff by Disney.

elahrairrah · Posted: 31 Oct 2011, 12:26

Most of Tai Seng's domestic releases. I own three (Prodigal Son, Eastern Condors, Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain) and the transfers and sound are such utter crap. Looks like they used a 5th generation bootleg VHS tape to make them!

admin · Posted: 31 Oct 2011, 16:22

laserdisc_fan wrote:

I love Brian Eno music but this disc is truly awful because of the strange footage and angle it is displayed at!

Brian Eno: Thursday Afternoon (1984) [CSLM 792]

I would disagree. Watch it late at night, with dim lights and a good bottle of wine. It's supposed to be a piece of ambient audio/video art and it does a good job, very hypnotizing in the right conditions :-)

Julien

cold_sleeper · Posted: 31 Oct 2011, 17:47

Brian Eno: Thursday Afternoon (1984) [CSLM 792]

It seems that I served as the advertising of Sony PROFEEL Pro
http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/history/ ... kx-27.html
I still own one of them

mlcsmith · Posted: 31 Oct 2011, 21:37

My least favourites would be any of the universal letterbox edition discs. I just really dislike the waste of space on the cover with that galaxy background. I want the cover art to fill the entire space.

yazorin · Posted: 02 Nov 2011, 22:26

city slickers lol, cheap laserdisc! no chapters! i call it s****y shitters...

hippiedalek · Posted: 03 Nov 2011, 15:20

Cover wise I dislike the ones that have have tiny pictures of the film poster on the massive covers, some examples:

Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) (1987) [ID6635OR]
Queen: Live in Budapest (1986) [080 510-1]
Highlander (1986) [ID6679HB]

Content wise it always annoys me when a brilliant film is only available on LD in P&S. See the above mentioned Wings of Desire as an example; a great film with some unexpectedly good features such as a bilingual disc and dolby surround but P&S with in picture subtitles...

remington · Posted: 08 Nov 2011, 23:39

Not sure if the question applies to the quality of the video or the movie itself but either way Solar Crisis should be quickly burned, stepped on and cracked. Not necessarily in that order.

mikeystoyz · Posted: 09 Nov 2011, 05:21

However you want to split it, quality, movie or whatever, for pure hate, my copy of copycat with death rot as well.

yazorin · Posted: 12 Nov 2011, 01:17

hippiedalek wrote:

Cover wise I dislike the ones that have have tiny pictures of the film poster on the massive covers, some examples:

Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) (1987) [ID6635OR]
Queen: Live in Budapest (1986) [080 510-1]
Highlander (1986) [ID6679HB]

Content wise it always annoys me when a brilliant film is only available on LD in P&S. See the above mentioned Wings of Desire as an example; a great film with some unexpectedly good features such as a bilingual disc and dolby surround but P&S with in picture subtitles...

god i hate those covers! there just the covers of the vhs versions with a dumb background!

jjhunsecker · Posted: 13 Nov 2011, 23:21

nissling wrote:

I would actually go right ahead and say The Golden Age Of Looney Tunes vol. 1. I'm aware of that it's something for collectors, but if you ask me, this box set is completely overrated. Looney Tunes has never been common here in Sweden though, when I was young they only showed stuff by Disney.

As a big Looney Tunes fan I REALLY disagree with you here. That boxset was one of my favorites until those cartoons were restored on DVD (now I'm waiting to purchase the Blu-ray set). The LD set contained The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, my most favorite cartoon in the whole wide world!!

As for my least favorite disc, I don't know that I have one but the most disappointing one for me was the two volumes of Betty Boop the Definitive Collection. The set were riddled with DNR, which smeared the ink lines around the cartoon characters whenever they moved quickly. A real mess to look at. If it weren't for the DNR the sets would have been perfect! However, since there has never been an official release of these cartoons on DVD I'll keep the flawed laserdiscs for now.

Guest · Posted: 16 Nov 2011, 10:01

For me being a DiscoVision collector, Frenzy. Especially that pesky side 5. Oh, I hated that side so much! Just as the movie was getting to the climax, BAM, Picture Stop on every frame.

ratkins · Posted: 16 Nov 2011, 15:24

hahaha I had totally forgot about Frenzy.

publius · Posted: 16 Nov 2011, 18:07

randomtvandmovie wrote:

For me being a DiscoVision collector, Frenzy. Especially that pesky side 5. Oh, I hated that side so much! Just as the movie was getting to the climax, BAM, Picture Stop on every frame.

The otherwise nearly useless Picture Stop Cancel mode on certain players (on the CLD-D704, hold down the front-panel Play/Still button until PSC ON appears on the on-screen display) really comes into its own here.

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