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 Post subject: Lawrence of Arabia
PostPosted: 24 Jan 2012, 03:50 
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I have the 1989 Criterion Collection version of this film and it will not play, any sides. My other discs play fine. Tried two players. What Gives?
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 Post subject: Re: Lawrence of Arabia
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halfmac wrote:
I have the 1989 Criterion Collection version of this film and it will not play, any sides. My other discs play fine. Tried two players. What Gives?


Rot? Bent discs?
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 Post subject: Re: Lawrence of Arabia
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halfmac wrote:
I have the 1989 Criterion Collection version of this film and it will not play, any sides. My other discs play fine. Tried two players. What Gives?


What other discs extras? Or other titles that play without any issues?

How long have you had this pressing and did you buy it off eBay recently?

Julian, what would serious rot look like would it be visible on the disc as one member (cessnaace) pointed out in Youtube-video some nasty looking dark spots on the disc and I have yet to come across one myself, could it be halfmac has them on his, Lawrence of Arabia pressing or maybe the discs are cracked and he hasn't noticed it if the disc is cracked it won't play.
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 Post subject: Re: Lawrence of Arabia
PostPosted: 31 Aug 2012, 16:56 
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how many discs do you have that work.
how old is the player.
how long have you had the player.

i've never had any trouble with discs unless it was cracked, warped, but even then part of the disc would play.
never had any bad rot that the disc would not play.
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 Post subject: Re: Lawrence of Arabia
PostPosted: 31 Aug 2012, 19:17 
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Define, "will not play".
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 Post subject: Re: Lawrence of Arabia
PostPosted: 31 Aug 2012, 23:00 
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how many discs do you have that work.
how old is the player.
how long have you had the player.

i've never had any trouble with discs unless it was cracked, warped, but even then part of the disc would play.
never had any bad rot that the disc would not play.

Years ago a member elsewhere on another site sent me a load of Laserdiscs he didn't want an I still have them. One was Return of the Jedi part of all the STAR WARS CLV THX set

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Starting out from the centre hole and only by several millimetres here's what it looks like.

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This is program contended side 3 if the crack went over by another 10 or so millimetres I'd doubt it would be read by the laser.

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Side 4 shows how bad it is this side won't play as the crack has gone over the non-program not sure of its blue screen with text or a Turtle on its back?
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 Post subject: Re: Lawrence of Arabia
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I saw Lawrence of Arabia at the Odeon Marble Arch, London in 70mm Dolby SR and then twice at the local Odoen where they fitted the Dolby CP50 with SR cards for the presentation.

It was way, way better at the Marble Arch on the towering screen that my dad said, it used to be the largest screen in London when he lived there.

The sound was fantastic with crazy wild wide dialouge panning that had me looking to far left/right and between as well as centre channel and mono surround was okay, sub bass rumbled when thousands of horses and Arabs charged. "NO PRISONERS"!

The deep curved screen while sat front and centre with floor sloping up with curve WOW BREATHTAKING! with 70mm projection and Dolby SR.

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 Post subject: Re: Lawrence of Arabia
PostPosted: 01 Sep 2012, 02:26 
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That's freakin awesome that those ticket stubs have the sound formats written down. I assume you did that?
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 Post subject: Re: Lawrence of Arabia
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That's freakin awesome that those ticket stubs have the sound formats written down. I assume you did that?

Well unless the ticket machine was on the Fritz, :mrgreen: yeah I wrote them down so I could remember. I think I wrote a little few words on the back of it about the presentation.
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 Post subject: Re: Lawrence of Arabia
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halfmac wrote:
I have the 1989 Criterion Collection version of this film and it will not play, any sides. My other discs play fine. Tried two players. What Gives?


Of course, the obvious question would be: "Which edition?" There's the CAV edition, of course (#78), and the CLV edition (#78A) exists in press runs from at least three different plants. I have a Pioneer pressing, and I'd seen (at the old much-missed Sight & Sound shop in Massachusetts) a copy pressed by Kuraray, and another one pressed by 3M (the CAV was also pressed by 3M).

I assume that the Pioneer CLV was the initial pressing, as it was typical for a while for Criterion to have CAVs pressed by 3M and CLVs by Pioneer. What's odd is that the jackets of the other two pressings still said "First Printing". But then, beyond the first 8 or 9 titles, I don't think I'd ever seen a "Second Printing" (or later) on any title.
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 Post subject: Re: Lawrence of Arabia
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The CAV edition was first. All copies I have seen were pressed by 3M. The CLV edition was pressed by either 3M or Pioneer (my own copy is Pioneer).
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I have a Criterion Collection copy of L of A coming. I can't tell much else about the LD from the picture that was posted on Amazon.

Are there many versions/variations of the movie produced by Criterion?
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 Post subject: Re: Lawrence of Arabia
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I got my Criterion copy of L & A yesterday. It has a very nice carboard gatefold holder for the 2 LD's. I don't know if all of the Criterion LD's come this way; but, this holder is in a plastic 12" jacket sleeve with "LaserDisc" stamped in the plastic and a ziploc to seal the jacket. I think it is very classy looking. I wish I could find more of this style.
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 Post subject: Re: Lawrence of Arabia
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dumbchemist wrote:
I got my Criterion copy of L & A yesterday. It has a very nice carboard gatefold holder for the 2 LD's. I don't know if all of the Criterion LD's come this way; but, this holder is in a plastic 12" jacket sleeve with "LaserDisc" stamped in the plastic and a ziploc to seal the jacket. I think it is very classy looking. I wish I could find more of this style.



i had 2 of those once, for me they came free when we bought some disney LDs new.
they were horrible, blue zip on the top. would always ding the corners and one almost stuck to the cover so bad that it
almost came off :shock:
i tossed them right away and got the archival bags.


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