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My latest obsession---Laserdiscs---Any other collectors?

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Arcadiac:
The store I went to Saturday has several hundred used disks for $5.99 or 2 for $10.  And they trade 2 for 1.  I found some good stuff there but put off buying until I trim down my collection of the stuff I'll never watch again.
I did however pick up Gigantor Vol. 1 Anime disk for $3.99 at a comic book shop.

The great thing I see about laserdiscs is that some titles have yet to be released on other formats, making them somewhat rare.
Especially the uncut animation, like the Looney Tunes and Tex Avery sets.

I enjoy buying machines that used to cost $1000 for $20.

As far as HD, again not an issue for me, can't afford it!
Plasma/LCD TV's still look just plain weird to me.

But, one of the guys I bought some disks from a while back had his player hooked up to his 63" flat-screen and it looked great to me!
I guess there are ways to optimize the output depending on the player and TV.

Hell, I still have a VHS player hooked up for the occasional movie or taped program! 
I just got rid of my 8-tracks, so what do I know!?!

ARCADIAC!

Level42:
Ah, it's great to see this brilliant Dutch invention to be still alive :D

Laserdisc never sold in Europe. Only the real movie die-hards had one.

I would love to see the original SW movies on LD.

I've got a couple Level 42 CD-video singles. (some of these: http://forevernow.com/music/cdvideo.shtml)

Remember, gold colored, with one track video and 2 or 3 audio tracks. I bet he video part of those discs have never been played. They used to be quite valuable some time ago because of their rarity.

I think one of those was actually the very first CD-video's released overhere. IIRC there even were special CD-video only players....now who would want that ?

Arcadiac:
On one of the colder weekends a few weeks ago, my son and I had a
Star Wars fest and watched all three of them in a row! 
Original pressings, I bought them recently in a box lot of 17 disks for $40.
They're said to be most true to the theatrical version, all I know is they looked and sounded great on my old-school 52" RCA projection TV.
Good Times!

ARCADIAC!

ark_ader:
I used to collect laserdisc arcade games.

I have had some rare ones in my collection, but after my Sony 1450 died I sold them.

I still have Interstellar and Esh's Aurunmilla.

But I they will all go to a happier home soon.  :)

DaveMMR:
I bought a used Laserdisc player from the record store I worked at a while ago (right at the dawn of DVD).  I used to buy everything on LD - man expensive.  Somehow I ended up with this strange activity disk called "Fun and Games" that used the player as part of the play (e.g. - you had to try to stop on a particular frame; you advanced frames like a board game, etc.)  It was made by Scholastic and Bill Murray was in a few chapters (doing Tongue Twisters).  It's actually a bit insane.  I haven't gotten around to transferring it over to DVD yet.

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