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

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Loafmeister:
laser rot: I'm not sure if I remember correctly but laser rot is the term used to describe the breakdown of the glue that holds the two platters together.  It's not really visible but the laserdisc players' laser can't seem to pick up the video properly if the disc has such an issue.

I'm not saying it happens to all disc but it happened too often.

Arcadiac:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_rot
http://www.lddb.com/laserrot.php

The disks become separated according to lddb.com.
A couple of crappy vids on Youtube show results, speckles, etc.
Definitely a real issue, but less than 1%, I probably won't run into it much.

Oh, I have to tell on myself regarding the first player I had, the one I got in the buy with the 25 discs... 
Here's my first post from last October at alt.video.laserdisc:

"I did something dumb--
I bought an RCA LDR600 last weekend.
It worked great with LD, but I got the bright idea to try a dvd
("Idiocracy", how ironic!) in it (figuring the worst that would happen
would be a disk error message) and it got stuck.
Wouldn't play of course, also wouldn't open and release the disk.
I opened up the player to find that the machine had clamped down on
the disc.  I very gently loosened the top rail and removed the disc.
The disc holder/clamp is still locked tight as if it still has a disk
in it.  Now upon powering up, the door won't open, the display will
read "open" then "close" but nothing happens, no motor noise or
anything.  Then the display reads 0 min 0 secs.
Is there anyway to fix (reset?) this or did I totally ruin it?
Is it worth taking to a repair shop?
It seems a damn nice player, 2-sided play/s-vid etc.
I feel like such an idiot."

At any rate with some help from the members there I decided to just get another player instead of trying to fix the RCA.

Lesson Learned--NEVER put a DVD in a laserdisc player!  ::)

BTW my current player is a Pioneer CLD-v5000 auto-flip model w/S-Vid.
Got it for $30 shipped on Ebay, not too shabby!
Sold the other ones I bought over the summer/fall to finance it.

PS- earlier today a friend told me of another local store that has laserdiscs for around $3 ea., might be time to go feed the addiction!

ARCADIAC!

Mauzy:

--- Quote from: Arcadiac on February 14, 2009, 03:43:16 am ---
BTW my current player is a Pioneer CLD-v5000 auto-flip model w/S-Vid.
Got it for $30 shipped on Ebay, not too shabby!
Sold the other ones I bought over the summer/fall to finance it.


--- End quote ---

Holy Crap! I didn't think an LD player could even be shipped for 30 bucks. Maybe yours is newer and lighter, but mine weighs a good thirty pounds. I know how you feel when it comes to finding an unfixable problem with these things. I worked for about 10 hours to sync up the gearing on the tray of my garage sale find Mitsubishi M-V7010. Still can't get it right. I think one of this years garage sale season goals will be a new LD player.

bishmasterb:
I collected Laserdiscs before DVD and have about 300 of them. We still watch them occasionally, but the picture quality is really fairly poor on larger HD sets. I assume it's just the usual thing with most HD sets not displaying SD signals very well.

Towards the end of the LD life-cycle, Pioneer used to host a large fire-sale every once in a while in SoCal. I picked up a lot of brand new discs there in the late 90s for $2/each.

I'm surprised this thread hasn't been hijacked by the "Laserdisc is superior to DVD folks" yet.    >:D

Loafmeister:
LOL, I remember when the first batch of non-anamorphic DVD's that had awful grainy blacks were released, boy was there interesting debates.  But once the DVD mastering got better, and with the advent of anamorphic releases, I don't think there's one LD fan who has the guts to try that line to push "LD superiority".

No one misunderstand please!  I'm a big fan of the format so keep the knives in check! ;)

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