jakeheke wrote:
Some Japanese cartoon discs have this on the dead side.
Huh that's really cool, I hadn't heard of that, thanks for sharing!
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| Author: | pokefraker [ 02 May 2020, 11:07 ] |
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I know that the default LD's had a mirrored Silver finish, and the smaller LD's were Yellowish but aside from those and the red/purple coloring of the RLV discs what movies besides Evil Dead 2[EE3845] have a colored variant? |
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| Author: | rein-o [ 02 May 2020, 14:29 ] |
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Its actually clear, the red and yellow or gold ones are the plastic. I don't think any LDs were actually made gold like the MFSL CDs but I no longer own the 1 gold LD I ever had. The red one was the color of the plastic not the inside, I remember when I did own that too. |
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| Author: | signofzeta [ 02 May 2020, 16:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
I’m pretty sure that red Evil Dead is the only LD colored like that ever to be released worldwide. |
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| Author: | pokefraker [ 02 May 2020, 19:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
signofzeta wrote: I’m pretty sure that red Evil Dead is the only LD colored like that ever to be released worldwide. Any speculation to why this was? Just seems like a good marketing thing much like the colored vinyl. |
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| Author: | takeshi666 [ 02 May 2020, 21:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
pokefraker wrote: signofzeta wrote: I’m pretty sure that red Evil Dead is the only LD colored like that ever to be released worldwide. Any speculation to why this was? Just seems like a good marketing thing much like the colored vinyl. Yes, and apparently some players had trouble reading the red disc so they reissued it as a regular coloured pressing. |
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| Author: | admin [ 03 May 2020, 05:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
Someone mentioned a long time ago that there could have been a limited run of an horror movie with green plastic. But I've never seen one... Julien |
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| Author: | jakeheke [ 03 May 2020, 05:49 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
Some Japanese cartoon discs have this on the dead side. https://i.redd.it/wfv13j95k7b31.jpg |
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| Author: | pokefraker [ 03 May 2020, 05:54 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
jakeheke wrote: Some Japanese cartoon discs have this on the dead side. Huh that's really cool, I hadn't heard of that, thanks for sharing!
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| Author: | jakeheke [ 03 May 2020, 06:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
I came across some at a record shop. Id never watch them, and i cant understand Jap so i left them be. Edit: also seen some random opera CD Video laserdisc with musical notes on a dead side similar to above |
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| Author: | lons_vex [ 03 May 2020, 22:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
jakeheke wrote: It is called Pit-Art, and I'm certain we had a thread about it, possibly in the anime corner of the forum. |
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| Author: | rein-o [ 03 May 2020, 23:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
"Pit-art" picture discs This is one of the topics, there are other discs, when I searched pit art there were more. |
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| Author: | pokefraker [ 18 Mar 2021, 10:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
admin wrote: Someone mentioned a long time ago that there could have been a limited run of an horror movie with green plastic. But I've never seen one... Julien I've been trying to find more information on this since I made the thread, I know it's been mentioned that the Green Laserdisc is Toxic Avenger, The: Unrated Director's Cut (1985) (Uncut) [TRO-7000], but here's some proof that it was at least planned for production, still no evidence of the disc itself. The color is listed as Yellow on the database entry, which isn't that common for a US release, so it's likely they just made it yellow because it was easier. Does anyone have a Yellow PAL or Japanese Rental LD and this Toxic Avenger release to compare the colors? 
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| Author: | blam1 [ 18 Mar 2021, 18:21 ] |
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Yellow started in the Europe with the second release of LaserDisc - the original thought was to make the "Digital Audio" disc yellow to show they were different from the early analog audio discs. Japan used yellow discs to identify discs issued to the rental market. I don't know if this was to discourage disc swapping or just to make them 'different'. The 5" CDV disc with audio were yellow. CDV discs without audio were silver and classified "Video Singles". Even Dead 2 is the only red disc. It does not play in HeNe Laser tube players (632nm) as the red color cancels out the beam. The red laser in the HLD-X9 player (670nm) has no issue. I've never seen a 'green' disc. But I suspect they could have made black discs - as they did with CDs. |
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| Author: | make [ 18 Mar 2021, 23:11 ] | ||
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Just out of curiosity, some spanish LD's are gold colored even if they were 100% LaserDisc branded, not CD-Video. Here's a recent photo of my setup, the last one on the bottom is my PAL player with one of the Gold LaserDisc I told you, that one is American Gigolo. I can sow you some more if you're interested.
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| Author: | elahrairrah [ 19 Mar 2021, 15:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
I think Japanese LDs that were designated as "LASERDISC RENTAL" were all gold-colored discs. 
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| Author: | pokefraker [ 22 Mar 2021, 01:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
Alright folks, we now have confirmation thanks to Robert Bortignon on Laserdisc Forever, Toxic Avenger IS NOT just yellow, it's a golder color with a green tint to it.  Nice to finally have this settled! |
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| Author: | cplusplus [ 22 Mar 2021, 01:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
Is the left PDO and the right Mitsubishi? Does anyone know if Mitsubishi made gold rentals? |
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| Author: | admin [ 22 Mar 2021, 05:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
pokefraker wrote:  Could you repost/upload here? AccessDeniedAccess denied.Anonymous caller does not have storage.objects.get access to the Google Cloud Storage object. Julien |
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| Author: | pokefraker [ 22 Mar 2021, 06:46 ] | |||
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admin wrote: Could you repost/upload here? AccessDeniedAccess denied.Anonymous caller does not have storage.objects.get access to the Google Cloud Storage object. Julien I've changed the image hosting over to Imgur, I figured Discord would work but I guess not. I've attached the two files to this reply as well if that's still not working, thanks for the heads up Julian.
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| Author: | jakeheke [ 22 Mar 2021, 07:45 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Alternative Colored Laserdiscs |
Awesome stuff Poke!  elahrairrah wrote: I think Japanese LDs that were designated as "LASERDISC RENTAL" were all gold-colored discs. Yip my T2 Rental is bright bright Gold. |
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