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jesuslovesgood
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Post subject: Re: What was the last laserdisc you bought? Posted: 19 Dec 2021, 18:03 |
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rein-o wrote: Save on the title for now, hope you get the disc, could have shipped and is stuck in the post office? I had a package recently that was sent from upstate NY to me in DE which took over 3 weeks, but I did have a tracking number.
At least you will be covered with paypal if its too long a wait. He never sent the invoice and is either ignoring my emails or maybe he got injured. Don't know what's going on. Contacted admin here and they told me he isn't responding to them either. It's whatever but a bit depressing because I really needed movie for my collection. I'm a bit annoyed.
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xtempo
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Post subject: Re: What was the last laserdisc you bought? Posted: 31 Dec 2021, 20:47 |
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laserfanhld-gb wrote: This just arrived with today’s post….. the Teddanson influence strikes again! https://i.postimg.cc/kXWd9qyc/441-CA8-A ... 33-D00.jpg]https://i.postimg.cc/PJGFFv0k/653D180E-A17B-4067-9E57-BA5DBDCF48EB.jpg This will be a nice little 3hrs workout for my rather elderly but still nice CLD-2950. brilliant movie I should have on LaserDisc but don't. I do have a few different versions of it though. Will add it to the wishlist.
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jesuslovesgood
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Post subject: Re: What was the last laserdisc you bought? Posted: 01 Jan 2022, 00:55 |
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I was wrong. It's not the remastered version. Wow, pretty nice image quality for not being the remastered version. I wonder if my LX-900 is doing the heavy lifting or if the remastered version of this laserdisc corrects something other than picture quality. Now I'm capturing The Watcher in the Woods and shockingly that film print isn't half bad either. I was a bit worried when I read a review online bashing on the laserdisc version of The Watcher in the Woods. I do not know which laserdisc player people are using to watch these movies but the majority of movies I watch on my Panasonic LX-900 revision 1995 look fantastic. Edit: I think I know why Howling II was remastered. Apparently on the laserdisc version I own there's no song when the black credits roll. While I was screen capturing I found it odd how silent the credits were when the black credit screen rolled on.
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laserfanhld-gb
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Post subject: Re: What was the last laserdisc you bought? Posted: 01 Jan 2022, 11:33 |
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xtempo wrote: laserfanhld-gb wrote: This just arrived with today’s post….. the Teddanson influence strikes again! https://i.postimg.cc/kXWd9qyc/441-CA8-A ... 33-D00.jpg ]https://i.postimg.cc/PJGFFv0k/653D180E-A17B-4067-9E57-BA5DBDCF48EB.jpg This will be a nice little 3hrs workout for my rather elderly but still nice CLD-2950. brilliant movie I should have on LaserDisc but don't. I do have a few different versions of it though. Will add it to the wishlist. Thanks, and may I wish you a Happy New Year! I had a chance to sample the first few chapters before the New Year celebrations started yesterday and I’m sure I will be in full agreement with you after seeing the movie in its entirety This is the PAL release from 1995 supposedly the original widescreen full length version but the aspect ratio is a bit of an oddity as its more like 14:9 or 1.56:1 and sits rather uncomfortably on my 16:9 cinema screen but fortunately looks rather better on the 4:3 option with small black bars top and bottom, it would be interesting to know if the new 4k Blu-ray is framed similarly?
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ldfan
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Post subject: Re: What was the last laserdisc you bought? Posted: 01 Jan 2022, 11:53 |
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laserfanhld-gb wrote: This is the PAL release from 1995 supposedly the original widescreen full length version but the aspect ratio is a bit of an oddity as its more like 14:9 or 1.56:1 and sits rather uncomfortably on my 16:9 cinema screen but fortunately looks rather better on the 4:3 option with small black bars top and bottom, it would be interesting to know if the new 4k Blu-ray is framed similarly? It appears (based on our database) that the film has an aspect ratio of 1.66 - 1. Not a super strange ratio as Disney’s original release of Beauty and the Beast on LD was presented this way (however the DVD and Blu ray are now using 1.78 - 1 to probably better fit 16:9 TV’s; not sure if there is lost framing due to this). Anyway, I agree it is a bit of pain on how one decides to view the movie; leave it in 4:3 mode and you get a window box or switch to 16:9 and it slightly crops the tops and bottoms.
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kirk84
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Post subject: Re: What was the last laserdisc you bought? Posted: 07 Jan 2022, 11:48 |
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laserfanhld-gb wrote: This just arrived with today’s post….. the Teddanson influence strikes again! This will be a nice little 3hrs workout for my rather elderly but still nice CLD-2950. I have the same edition of "Nuovo cinema paradiso", a beautiful extended version.
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jesuslovesgood
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Post subject: Re: What was the last laserdisc you bought? Posted: 08 Jan 2022, 02:35 |
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I'm a bit pissed off right now. I've had bad luck lately. A computer monitor I ordered was sent to my house and was defective so we had to send it back and we still haven't gotten a refund from the seller because it took awhile to ship back to him. Then my 2tb mechanical hard-drive died on my gaming computer so it forced me to buy a PNY 1tb ssd for 74 dollars. Got a tiny deal on it because it was being sold brand new for 70 by an ebay seller. It wasn't a huge deal. It just seems like everything bad keeps happening to me lately and oh yeah I forgot to mention that someone sent me a cracked copy CreepShow 2 which they let me keep but literally no point to having it to me. Sure the artwork is nice but I don't want to risk putting a cracked disc into my player because I'm paranoid about it damaging or scratching up the inside of the player. My Dad says that won't happen but I rather not risk it since my Panasonic LX-900 is in like New condition.
Freddy's Dead Laserdisc just came in the mail and it has laserdisc rot. I put it into the player and the first thing my Father notices is all the artifacts popping up consistently and often almost in every single frame of the movie. I shut the movie off immediately and now am asking for a refund from the seller. I will gladly return this laserdisc rot to the seller for a full $$$ refund. Also, originally I was suppose to buy Freddy's Dead on here from someone that had a really nice deal on it but he ended up blowing me off. Now my Freddy Collection is incomplete. I only have the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th movie. I wanted to complete it with Freddy's Dead but apparently that's not going to happen. I know some people think Freddy Dead sucks but I enjoyed it personally as a popcorn flick. Suck that I've had so much bad luck lately. So Freddy's Dead is a known rotter or did I just happen to get a bad release of it? Is it even worth tracking down anymore or will I have issues if I end up buying from another ebayer in the future. This disc might be prone to rotting?
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