Great collectible of today, my fav would have to be the sound quality. I am getting a collection of LD's now some are new and factory sealed and some are collectibles hard to find pricy titles I got Labyrinth on LD for a whopping $22! and it is in very good condition too I probably will not play that one since I got it on blu ray as well. AWSOMe glad to know others have a interest in older technology too!
I love the Laserdisc format. It is so futuristic even now. DVD's weren't ahead of their time because there wouldn't even be any DVD's if it wasn't for Laserdisc. DVD's were exciting in 1998/1999 but now it is nothing. DVD's suck because they have crappy interactive menus, a bunch of previews when all I want to do is watch a film and I also hate the fact that there is region coding and copy protection. That makes the picture quality look crap and the colours un-natural. Laserdiscs for the win.
@KissMeImPunk Nope. I guess sinec there's no tape to stretch and no contact either. It shouldn't degrade much or anything noticeable other than the disks can break down chemically over time and stop working but the same thing can happen with some really old CD's too.
i Got pioneer LD Player with auto flip some older LD only use hold 30mins a side
I now have 100 Lds in my collection some value over $60 A LD and they look cool now if they could make a bluray that size wonder how much info it could hold
I picked up a Sony unit for 20 bucks on ebay, had to drive 30 miles to get it or pay 50 in shipping. Guy was cool, and it worked. Was being sold by a school for some habitat for humanity thing. School took good care of it cause i watched a few movies with no problems, except getting up and flipping the disc over.
Very interesting. Never heard from Laser Disk. Now I saw some videos from you. And I've got to say you have really interesting stuff and make really interesting videos.
Laserdisc wasn't that expensive at first, but the players weren't that good. The first LD-player was made by Magnovox (aka. Philips) in 1978 and two years later, Pioneer made a LD-player which was far superior but way more expensive. From 1980 to 1984 Pioneer bought up most parts of the LD-market and changed some of the technical specifications. They introduced digital sound (identical to CDDA) and made the resolution higher. There's no commercial on LD so that's why most movies were pricey
Nice video. I was wondering I was able to find a Pioneer CDL-1070 for 80 dollars including shipping or best offer, still comes with remote and manual. Is it worth it, also would you recommend getting a LaserDisc player. I was also able to find a Pioneer CDL-2070 also for 40 dollars plus 30 shipping but the seller mentioned that sometimes the door will not open or close all the way though It still plays movies fine. What difference is there between Pioneer and the other companies.Have a nice day.
@ATARI800XLfan I don't know enough about the differences or to say if it's worth it or not. It depends if your a big fan of older movies and you like owning special editions and stuff it's cool but it's also hard to find movies for depending on your area.
@ATARI800XLfan The 2070 is the better model (the higher the number, the better the player), but if the door is clunky, go with the 1070, thats what I have and it hasn't failed me yet
Just bought my first laserdisc player the other day and ordered a few discs. I am a movie nut and cannot wait. LD was always the format that eluded me over the years, rock on sir!
I had a Pioneer CLD-M450 LD player. It lasted 10 years before dying on me in 2004. Although I have just one LD now, I still want a player again. Hopefully one that does auto-flip. I'd like to get one that has a fancy frame buffer so I can pause or frame advance on CLV discs, but those players are still pretty expensive.
Even on my crappy TV sets I had back then, LD video was the best quality I'd seen until I got a DVD player.
we have one like this. it's able to flip the lazer so that you don't have to flip the movie through the middle of the movie, but we had to take the top casing of it off so that it would work haha
I had one that played both sides automatically... the sound is digital and they STILL have that issue where MANY titles still have not been issued on DVD!...makes this machine still viable today...
I don't think it was just the price. There were movies where you had to switch not just the sides but also the discs. And I think a simple thing like that can kill the whole format.
Most LD players are only Composite. I think the video is stored on the disc as composite video not separate Chroma/Luma or RGB and don't forget I'm over here in North America and we never really had RGB or Scart like you Europeans did! Now it's all HDMI of course but back then when you guys had RGB and Scart on all your older machines we never did ;(
@rendezvous65, No not really, Scart can carry S-video signals as well.
Where the S-Video connector only hold video, the Scart was designed to be a single connector that could hold everything, video and sound, even a signal to tell the TV if the video was anamorphic. But Scart had a few rather annoying problems, weight being one, the damned thing are prone to fall out of their sockets at times, and you had to pay quite a lot for higher end cables to ensure a clean signal.
The video on the discs were composite, true. Not really a problem though because of the very high Signal Noise ratio on the disc, converting to Y/C or even RGB is only really helpful because it provides a better/cleaner method of transfer between the LD and the TV.
Btw, Audio were also analogue on the early discs, they later adopted the digital format from the CD's.
Later they reused the analogue audio track for Dolby Digital. I dare you to try to change to analogue. Get some earplugs first.:)
I got into LD via a close friend, in the 1990s, then AC-3 came out, then DVD, so it's been a tight battle during those years. With VHS and Beta, LD was clearly better, but did not record, so it remained on the fringe
Along with M21BIRD, I also like old tech! I got 3 laserdisc players and about 30 movies. Also have BetaMax with about 50+ tapes. If I'm not mistaken, LD is 400 lines of res. DVD is 500 and VHS is 240. LD is way better than VHS
Its only loud for the first 15 minutes as the disc spins slower and slower as it gets further and further into the disc. Also I'm sure more expensive players are quieter.
No you would need to play the movie for 15 minutes. Almost all disk drives spin slower as they get to the outside as the rings get bigger and bigger as you get to the outside of a circle. More info passes under the laser per rotation so it doesn't need to spin as fast. Same reason Hard Drives can get info faster if its near the outer tracks on the disk.
Yeah obviously DVD is better it's also like 15 years newer! Besides if you had the player in a entertainment stand with a glass door you would barley hear it at all. Also my VCR is pretty noisy when the video head is spinning!
@MN12BIRD DVD is digital video, even Mpeg 1 is digital, VCD is VHS quality high compression, while LaserDisc is only CD audio with a movie in analog, preserved on optical disc, which rarely wears out if ever
I just got a marantz laserdisc with 20 movies including wizard of oz collectors edition, lion king, and fantasisa (can't spell right now) pluse alot more rare ones for $24 at a friend of family gradge sale. Was that a good deal? O' ya I also got 2 good quality speakers for free.
Thanx a lot for the video man! I have never searched into LD's thoroughly. I am a collector and a gamer and always in my videogame quest I run into LDs many times. I found them interesting of course but never examined the thing seriously! I am stunned what can I say.. You got me, I have at the moment some PC Engine purchases to do but after that everything on hold and off to LDs! =) thanx again and excuse me for my bad english! Peace
I remember back around the late 80's, early 90's, laserdiscs were getting popular. I don't know what they cost at that point but they were cheap enough that the players were being pushed hard at Sears.
They were renting a lot of the discs at Blockbuster and the manager there told my dad that he thought in about 5 more years, the whole store would be laserdiscs.
i had a nice RCA Laser Disk player once! it was silver with a tinted window panel around the middle of it! with a pointed face,,, kinda space age lookin! sound had problems though!
Forgive me if somebody already said this, but you can get players that have a laser that can move to the top of the disc so you don't have to flip it, sometimes called "autoflip". There's still a pause while it does this but its not major.
I have about seven or eight of those VCD's ... though I've never been able to find a player for them. Picked them up at an auction for $2.00 for the entire box.
the BBC still use beta max opposed to digital photography on there on the street news brodcasts and i'm gona buy a beta max player soon with a blank tape or two
No....but there are about 5000 plus discs being sold on eBay all the time. I usually buy about 4 or 5 per month. LD(s) sound better than your standard DVD. Sound is audiophile quality on many LD(s).
Laserdisc the grand daddy of CD's, VCD's, DVD's and Blu-ray. I still wonder if optical discs will still evolve or be replaced for mainstream home movie entertainment. I'm thinking flash drive movie players in the future.
it would be amazing if, for s&g's and todays technology, they would revamp the format to be able to fit like 10 movies per disc side and take advantage of that LP size format. nice review btw.
The players were very expensive, the discs were bulky (like vinyl records) and required a lot of TLC, and you couldn't record TV, which was a big selling point for VCRs.
i'm interested in seeing what one of the first few laser disc movies look like in terms of quality in comparison to say later editions, after perhaps they dialed in getting the format right.
Great vid, man I knew they were developed a long time ago, but I had no idea they came out in the f**king seventies, wow! It'd be a bitch to scratch one of those discs tough :)
LaserDisc players are easy to get but there are some disadvantages.
It is getting harder to find a LD player with it's original remote control. Sometimes people end up getting ripped off by buying a player that doesn't work.
Having a hard time leaving the actual comment I want. If you eventually see multiple comments, I will delete them tomorrow. I was trying to say that after over 10 yrs. of searching and searching for a laserdisc player, I finally find 1 at a Goodwiil for $14.99!!!! Bought me a LaserDisc online today, so I'll get to check out my Hitachi 1990 player - looks exactly just like yours too! Batman Forever's going to look sooo very awesome on this!!!! Nice video ;)
Wow thatnks for the insight! I thought this techology was from the 90's! Shows how unaware I was! By the way, great movies that you picked up! Untouchables is a top movie!
a couple of years ago in school we watched something on a laser disc... i remember the teacher taking the disc out, and i was like what the hell? Looks like a record but its a disc! then i had to look it up that night! lol
hey jake, i just wanted to thank you for your amazingly tight schedule and daily videos. Posting videos every day is incredible and I just wanted to thank you. Keep up the awesome work!
Saw one of those in an electronics store years and years ago. It was set up in the "home theater" room playing through a projector. I thought it was a really huge DVD or something. I would love to have one of these. Old technology is awesome.
I live in the UK and have 2 Laser Disc Players and one of them can read both sides of the disc so you don't need to flip it over. Also I was thinking about Laser Disc players earlier today and how hardly anyone here in the UK knows what one is anymore, then when I check youtube you have uploaded a video about one!
6,99$ for a Player ??? WOOOOW, thats awesome man - over here in europe they are very rare and it costs u arround 50$ (Multinorm system) - also the Discs are more expensive then DVD´s (especially the shipping) ^^.
I did a little video where I showed my actual sony (looks a bit like ur one there) and also the inside of my old pioneer (linked it to lukes video yesterday), maybe that could be interesting for u as a technic fanatic, too ;-D
Anyway a very nice pickup u did there - LD4EVER! ;-D
I've seen Fantasia on Laserdisc about 5 years ago. I remember it to be about the same as a DVD, with menus. I might be wrong about that, it has been a while, but the video quality WAS like DVD, in that you didn't see optical "artifacts" like on a tape. The disc was a tiny bit smaller than a vinyl.
Rumble in the Bronx is so awesome, but as for LDs they always fascinated me because of the size of the discs. For 6 bucks you really can't go wrong though even if for just random coolness to show off.
LOL, Rumble in the Bronx is so cheesy, but funny nonetheless.
Yeah I've heard of the Laserdisc format (although I've never used one), and I was also shocked to hear it was an analog format, despite it being optical based. I wonder how it works then...
Were you even alive when this format was first developed? I wasn't. Have you investigated the RCA CED format? There are some videos of CED players on YouTube.
Nice deal, back in the 90s discs were in the hundreds in price. I bought my LD player when Lucasfilm just released the Original Trilogy in a black box set. It wasn't until they made a player that could play both sides without flipping the disc that I truely enjoyed the films to their fullest.
My dad knew a guy during the mid 1980's that had one of these. I actually got to see it play the movie JAWS, that was the movie they were watching. I now have JAWS 1 and 2 on DVD format :)
Ya....towards the end of it's life the latest Laser disc players Had a Digital Rf out for Ac-3 (Dolby Digital) 5.1 surround sound. I had one of the last Laser Disc players produced, but sadly it shit the bed. I remember watching Se7en on Laserdisc...awesome shit!
Great collectible of today, my fav would have to be the sound quality. I am getting a collection of LD's now some are new and factory sealed and some are collectibles hard to find pricy titles I got Labyrinth on LD for a whopping $22! and it is in very good condition too I probably will not play that one since I got it on blu ray as well. AWSOMe glad to know others have a interest in older technology too!
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lilsurferdude93 4 months ago
Exelent video, MN12BIRD.
It's a good thing that Jaws was the first movie to be Released on Laserdisc. Jaws is one of my All-time Favorite movies : )
The Sad thing is: I only got one laserdisc (The Prince of Tides) and no Laserdisc Player.
Abnyway, keep the Video's Going, MN12BIRD.
97garfieldfan 6 months ago
Nice video. Just wondering do all players do DTS or is it just newer model's. Mine has a optical out and was made in 1989.
ATARI800XLfan 6 months ago
Is that an old school nintendo I see in the corner? Sweet classic!!
kevystead 7 months ago
love your flag lol
Anth0nyRey 7 months ago
I love the Laserdisc format. It is so futuristic even now. DVD's weren't ahead of their time because there wouldn't even be any DVD's if it wasn't for Laserdisc. DVD's were exciting in 1998/1999 but now it is nothing. DVD's suck because they have crappy interactive menus, a bunch of previews when all I want to do is watch a film and I also hate the fact that there is region coding and copy protection. That makes the picture quality look crap and the colours un-natural. Laserdiscs for the win.
jbsucksization1 7 months ago
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analogueaddict 6 months ago
i've got the pioneer cld d515 and it is great
i bought mine from ebay uk for over £67 uk pounds
plus a free scarface laserdisc and it is great and
to see all my fave movies as originaly attended
i got loads of discs to play them on with some are marked and scratched
but apparently the machine still plays them without jumping .
FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0 8 months ago
long live the ld bro!
kylel 10 months ago
I've seen some people who claim that LD is still superior to DVD.
Drac39 10 months ago
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rkoguy 8 months ago
I bought a Laserdisc player on ebay recently and the damn thing didn't work
Drac39 10 months ago
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@Drac39 lol
rkoguy 8 months ago
1978 WOW!
ci0ne 10 months ago
This guy's a commie!
DrGordon31 10 months ago
Great video! Love lazer disc :D
SuckMyDave 10 months ago
Since the format is analog, has it shown any degredation of quality with any of the movies?
KissMeImPunk 10 months ago
@KissMeImPunk Nope. I guess sinec there's no tape to stretch and no contact either. It shouldn't degrade much or anything noticeable other than the disks can break down chemically over time and stop working but the same thing can happen with some really old CD's too.
MN12BIRD 10 months ago
@MN12BIRD For the last part, is that why people are claiming MP3s and CD formats can actually lose quality between 10-15Kbps?
KissMeImPunk 10 months ago
1:03, wrong cover for Jaws
rivest266 7 months ago
i Got pioneer LD Player with auto flip some older LD only use hold 30mins a side
I now have 100 Lds in my collection some value over $60 A LD and they look cool now if they could make a bluray that size wonder how much info it could hold
garymonay 10 months ago
I picked up a Sony unit for 20 bucks on ebay, had to drive 30 miles to get it or pay 50 in shipping. Guy was cool, and it worked. Was being sold by a school for some habitat for humanity thing. School took good care of it cause i watched a few movies with no problems, except getting up and flipping the disc over.
worldgate989 10 months ago
Aww, wish my Laser Disk player played normal CDs
markistheone 10 months ago
Is that a Soviet flag in the background?
FreudRulz 10 months ago
6.99 for a ld player!!!!! where did you find that thing so cheap!
FOZproductionz 1 year ago
Wow that's really cool.
kcj1993 1 year ago
Very interesting. Never heard from Laser Disk. Now I saw some videos from you. And I've got to say you have really interesting stuff and make really interesting videos.
Squadalha 1 year ago
Laserdisc wasn't that expensive at first, but the players weren't that good. The first LD-player was made by Magnovox (aka. Philips) in 1978 and two years later, Pioneer made a LD-player which was far superior but way more expensive. From 1980 to 1984 Pioneer bought up most parts of the LD-market and changed some of the technical specifications. They introduced digital sound (identical to CDDA) and made the resolution higher. There's no commercial on LD so that's why most movies were pricey
Agroulinggrwaler1999 1 year ago
It started 2 smell shit when you showed up
GenyaArikado 1 year ago
Nice video. I was wondering I was able to find a Pioneer CDL-1070 for 80 dollars including shipping or best offer, still comes with remote and manual. Is it worth it, also would you recommend getting a LaserDisc player. I was also able to find a Pioneer CDL-2070 also for 40 dollars plus 30 shipping but the seller mentioned that sometimes the door will not open or close all the way though It still plays movies fine. What difference is there between Pioneer and the other companies.Have a nice day.
ATARI800XLfan 1 year ago
@ATARI800XLfan I don't know enough about the differences or to say if it's worth it or not. It depends if your a big fan of older movies and you like owning special editions and stuff it's cool but it's also hard to find movies for depending on your area.
MN12BIRD 1 year ago
@ATARI800XLfan The 2070 is the better model (the higher the number, the better the player), but if the door is clunky, go with the 1070, thats what I have and it hasn't failed me yet
thatguyontheright1 1 year ago
I remember watching bttf 1,2 on laser disk back in 96 good times!!
modman1234567 1 year ago
LOL WHY NEW LINE CINEMA POPPED UP?New Line Cinema was Lol when sped up but scary slowed down.
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ChiuahuaTubeALT 1 year ago
Wow I have never heard of this until now. That's truly amazing.
Xenokiller2179 1 year ago
Some LD players can read both sides, so no need to flip half way through the movie. Unless its one of the multiple disc movies ;)
DaveSimonH 1 year ago
Just bought my first laserdisc player the other day and ordered a few discs. I am a movie nut and cannot wait. LD was always the format that eluded me over the years, rock on sir!
EnduranceProductions 1 year ago
some laser disc player you dont have change the side of the disc
cheesefetadude 1 year ago
Is that an antenna on top of your TV??
RandomThoughts9ew65 1 year ago
I didnt know the laserplayer rhong existes till know its sp fkin awesome!!! donate me 1 if you can....its for a good cause :P
MrVagag 1 year ago
i have jaws on laser disc
jose5080007 1 year ago
my jurassic park movie is un playable now
jose5080007 1 year ago
Really?
Does your player work with other Laserdiscs?
Riddler95 1 year ago
@Riddler95 Yes but some movies the compound breaks down in the disc so
There not playable.
jose5080007 1 year ago
THat sucks.
Riddler95 1 year ago
One Disc that was guaranteed to laser rot was Willow. I doubt there is a single one left that is playable on the B side.
AGrandt 1 year ago
Whats with the commie flag?
momohasaids 1 year ago
I had a Pioneer CLD-M450 LD player. It lasted 10 years before dying on me in 2004. Although I have just one LD now, I still want a player again. Hopefully one that does auto-flip. I'd like to get one that has a fancy frame buffer so I can pause or frame advance on CLV discs, but those players are still pretty expensive.
Even on my crappy TV sets I had back then, LD video was the best quality I'd seen until I got a DVD player.
junker15 1 year ago
I agree with you.
Both the Picture and Sound Quality of Laserdisc was just amazing at the time.
Riddler95 1 year ago
cool presentation dude these laser disc kick vhs butt
24Chopps24 1 year ago
I thought my apartment was grubby, jeez.
kdixon7783c 1 year ago
we have one like this. it's able to flip the lazer so that you don't have to flip the movie through the middle of the movie, but we had to take the top casing of it off so that it would work haha
ipodkiller6 1 year ago
he would probably think your so full of shit!
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@frantic1337 Listen kid, if everyone hates you take it to the gym. You just look like a loser shithead.
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frantic1337 1 year ago
Clean the disc drawer, geeze
mikejohncooper 1 year ago 10
I had one that played both sides automatically... the sound is digital and they STILL have that issue where MANY titles still have not been issued on DVD!...makes this machine still viable today...
newstart2009 1 year ago
I used to have a laserdisc system.
It was great. Picture was so much better then vhs
BlazingFury07 1 year ago
@BlazingFury07 *EVERYTHING* was better than VHS, i think CED was the same, but everything else was better than VHS
DvdXploitr 1 year ago
I don't think it was just the price. There were movies where you had to switch not just the sides but also the discs. And I think a simple thing like that can kill the whole format.
brondaa 1 year ago
they were far ahead of there time But DAM they were big
Nick3889 1 year ago
The Untouchables is awesome.
Agroulinggrwaler1999 1 year ago
LD is so cooooool :D u said that video quality is good.. do u use what kind of blugs (rca,rgb, scart or what s-video..?? sry my english
JazZzi88 1 year ago
Just Composite RCA
MN12BIRD 1 year ago
-.- :D nothing more rca is so bad quality u know
JazZzi88 1 year ago
Most LD players are only Composite. I think the video is stored on the disc as composite video not separate Chroma/Luma or RGB and don't forget I'm over here in North America and we never really had RGB or Scart like you Europeans did! Now it's all HDMI of course but back then when you guys had RGB and Scart on all your older machines we never did ;(
MN12BIRD 1 year ago
oh , yes yees i forgot that im european... :D any way ..:) thx
JazZzi88 1 year ago
S-Video is the American version of SCART.
rendezvous65 1 year ago
@rendezvous65, No not really, Scart can carry S-video signals as well.
Where the S-Video connector only hold video, the Scart was designed to be a single connector that could hold everything, video and sound, even a signal to tell the TV if the video was anamorphic. But Scart had a few rather annoying problems, weight being one, the damned thing are prone to fall out of their sockets at times, and you had to pay quite a lot for higher end cables to ensure a clean signal.
AGrandt 1 year ago
The video on the discs were composite, true. Not really a problem though because of the very high Signal Noise ratio on the disc, converting to Y/C or even RGB is only really helpful because it provides a better/cleaner method of transfer between the LD and the TV.
Btw, Audio were also analogue on the early discs, they later adopted the digital format from the CD's.
Later they reused the analogue audio track for Dolby Digital. I dare you to try to change to analogue. Get some earplugs first.:)
AGrandt 1 year ago
Yeap
Laserdiscs were recorded using composite video.
Riddler95 1 year ago
the 1st movie I think is Jaws in 1978
funnyjoke23 2 years ago
Laserdisc is my favourite format of all time and I own a Pioneer CLD 2950 machine.
svr73 2 years ago 3
I recently hooked up my Laserdisc player to my HDTV, and to be honest the Picture Quality was pretty good.
Not as good as DVD or Blu-Ray, but pretty good.
Riddler95 2 years ago
you lucky bastard I had to pay over 60 to get my LaserDisc player
Clay3613 2 years ago
All of the LD players I have owned were always Pioneer.
Riddler95 2 years ago
I have a kenwood LD player i found for $10
how much is it worth?
wiihome 2 years ago
I got into LD via a close friend, in the 1990s, then AC-3 came out, then DVD, so it's been a tight battle during those years. With VHS and Beta, LD was clearly better, but did not record, so it remained on the fringe
MetallicBill 2 years ago
Along with M21BIRD, I also like old tech! I got 3 laserdisc players and about 30 movies. Also have BetaMax with about 50+ tapes. If I'm not mistaken, LD is 400 lines of res. DVD is 500 and VHS is 240. LD is way better than VHS
DvdXploitr 2 years ago 2
sorry one big fail, the sound from the laserdisc system is so loud its higher then the movie
akumie 2 years ago
Its only loud for the first 15 minutes as the disc spins slower and slower as it gets further and further into the disc. Also I'm sure more expensive players are quieter.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
so u must put on a disc, then pause and wait 15 min? or do u need to play the movie for 15 min?
akumie 2 years ago
No you would need to play the movie for 15 minutes. Almost all disk drives spin slower as they get to the outside as the rings get bigger and bigger as you get to the outside of a circle. More info passes under the laser per rotation so it doesn't need to spin as fast. Same reason Hard Drives can get info faster if its near the outer tracks on the disk.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
stilll anoying to see movies in laserdisc with 15 loud sounds, another resaon dvd is better now days, even vhs didnt have that sound
akumie 2 years ago
Yeah obviously DVD is better it's also like 15 years newer! Besides if you had the player in a entertainment stand with a glass door you would barley hear it at all. Also my VCR is pretty noisy when the video head is spinning!
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
@MN12BIRD DVD is digital video, even Mpeg 1 is digital, VCD is VHS quality high compression, while LaserDisc is only CD audio with a movie in analog, preserved on optical disc, which rarely wears out if ever
MetallicBill 2 years ago
Also consider that he's shooting the video right in front of the player, while the audio from the movie is coming out from the TV 8 or 9 feet away!
LaserdiscFan 2 years ago
just saying, if the laserdisc does as much sound as sega dreamcast then never get it
akumie 2 years ago
Hay MN12BIRD,
I just got a marantz laserdisc with 20 movies including wizard of oz collectors edition, lion king, and fantasisa (can't spell right now) pluse alot more rare ones for $24 at a friend of family gradge sale. Was that a good deal? O' ya I also got 2 good quality speakers for free.
kenbuc2 2 years ago
Damn thats a crazy Deal I can only imagine what a Marantz LD player alone is worth!
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
Marantz players are either rebadged Pioneer or Philips players, so they're not bad players.
So for that price, and all the discs as well, I think you made out well!
LaserdiscFan 2 years ago
I also just got a copy of the nightmare before christmas and spaceballs on ebay for $4 a piece. So Yah, adding that I have it made,
kenbuc2 2 years ago
@LaserdiscFan EXcept even Marantz VCRs have better audio, for example, special circuits that augment the standard feature set
MetallicBill 2 years ago
Thanx a lot for the video man! I have never searched into LD's thoroughly. I am a collector and a gamer and always in my videogame quest I run into LDs many times. I found them interesting of course but never examined the thing seriously! I am stunned what can I say.. You got me, I have at the moment some PC Engine purchases to do but after that everything on hold and off to LDs! =) thanx again and excuse me for my bad english! Peace
sybnios 2 years ago
I remember back around the late 80's, early 90's, laserdiscs were getting popular. I don't know what they cost at that point but they were cheap enough that the players were being pushed hard at Sears.
They were renting a lot of the discs at Blockbuster and the manager there told my dad that he thought in about 5 more years, the whole store would be laserdiscs.
I guess that didn't happen.
gdement 2 years ago
I remember that when i was a kid back in the day in the early 90´s it was just porno movies i saw available on LD
aaronpourazar 2 years ago
i had a nice RCA Laser Disk player once! it was silver with a tinted window panel around the middle of it! with a pointed face,,, kinda space age lookin! sound had problems though!
Dreambro1 2 years ago
Quite a nice narrative. I never owned a laserdisc (until now). As a kid, I occasionally kept seeing references to them.
I bought two rare laserdiscs: Gold Diggers: Secret of Bear Mountain + Leaving Normal. They never made it to DVD.
I really love how laserdisc makes it possible to preserve cherished oldies on DVDs. Unlike VHS, you can actually get a reasonably good transfer.
s9lngbord 2 years ago
Forgive me if somebody already said this, but you can get players that have a laser that can move to the top of the disc so you don't have to flip it, sometimes called "autoflip". There's still a pause while it does this but its not major.
Rubycon99 2 years ago
My science teacher had one of these. I didn't even know they existed until then.
sssdfrfwrgr 2 years ago
I have about seven or eight of those VCD's ... though I've never been able to find a player for them. Picked them up at an auction for $2.00 for the entire box.
pnroyal 2 years ago
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lordsofkoble 2 years ago
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lordsofkoble 2 years ago
the BBC still use beta max opposed to digital photography on there on the street news brodcasts and i'm gona buy a beta max player soon with a blank tape or two
killdoser666 2 years ago
Do they still make these laserdisks? I'm interested.
Lommy1337 2 years ago
No....but there are about 5000 plus discs being sold on eBay all the time. I usually buy about 4 or 5 per month. LD(s) sound better than your standard DVD. Sound is audiophile quality on many LD(s).
Condorsat10 2 years ago
Cool
Lommy1337 2 years ago
LD is old but i never have own one
1soniccool 2 years ago
I always thought that the laser disc came before the CD. I basically thought CDs were based off of laser discs.
pridakfan253 2 years ago
Great man great.
mrakobes79 2 years ago
great video !
I have a laser disc player
sound is better on laser disc
if you are looking for any laser disc movies pm
yodamann 2 years ago
Laserdisc the grand daddy of CD's, VCD's, DVD's and Blu-ray. I still wonder if optical discs will still evolve or be replaced for mainstream home movie entertainment. I'm thinking flash drive movie players in the future.
conyo985 2 years ago
it would be amazing if, for s&g's and todays technology, they would revamp the format to be able to fit like 10 movies per disc side and take advantage of that LP size format. nice review btw.
rockhills 2 years ago
man i need to get one of those it realy does look as good as a dvd player great review jake.5/5
DarkImpalement 2 years ago
I'm still curious why mainstream society never embraced Laser Disks back then, Instead they went with VHS?
Airjet2582 2 years ago
The players were very expensive, the discs were bulky (like vinyl records) and required a lot of TLC, and you couldn't record TV, which was a big selling point for VCRs.
Eyedunno 2 years ago
because it was expensive as hell
oxxor77 2 years ago
A VCR was an all-purpose machine capable of recording TV and watching your home videos on as well.
DelilahThePig 2 years ago 8
@DelilahThePig same with Beta
anthonywastrinh 1 year ago
i'm interested in seeing what one of the first few laser disc movies look like in terms of quality in comparison to say later editions, after perhaps they dialed in getting the format right.
TheDevilBurning 2 years ago
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Riddler95 2 years ago
OMG ! HUGE !!!! lol , just kidding bro .
shanedm123 2 years ago
I have Terminator and The Hunt for Red October on Laserdisc, but my player won't work :( It does play Cds though
3890carz18 2 years ago
Terminator 2 ?
Riddler95 2 years ago
no, just Terminator 1
3890carz18 2 years ago
Great vid, man I knew they were developed a long time ago, but I had no idea they came out in the f**king seventies, wow! It'd be a bitch to scratch one of those discs tough :)
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townsjim 2 years ago
So tempted to try and pick one of these players up... :)
XFile2708 2 years ago
LaserDisc players are easy to get but there are some disadvantages.
It is getting harder to find a LD player with it's original remote control. Sometimes people end up getting ripped off by buying a player that doesn't work.
It is getting heard buying good working players.
Riddler95 2 years ago
Having a hard time leaving the actual comment I want. If you eventually see multiple comments, I will delete them tomorrow. I was trying to say that after over 10 yrs. of searching and searching for a laserdisc player, I finally find 1 at a Goodwiil for $14.99!!!! Bought me a LaserDisc online today, so I'll get to check out my Hitachi 1990 player - looks exactly just like yours too! Batman Forever's going to look sooo very awesome on this!!!! Nice video ;)
DarkMetalSpider 2 years ago
Haha yeah I guessed mine was from the mid 80s but I think its from 1990.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
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DarkMetalSpider 2 years ago
Holy crap. Never seen a laserdisk.
That's huge O,o
Destruktive 2 years ago 5
Wow thatnks for the insight! I thought this techology was from the 90's! Shows how unaware I was! By the way, great movies that you picked up! Untouchables is a top movie!
THEAC83 2 years ago
im sure its not as loud as a 360
MNC122703 2 years ago
CLV LaserDiscs = 60 Minutes Per Side
CAV LaserDiscs = 30 Minutes Per Side
Riddler95 2 years ago
Wow way ahead of its time.
ronmower 2 years ago
i want 1
lankiep 2 years ago
nice
jin37uk 2 years ago
Did your player come with the remote ?
Riddler95 2 years ago
Great video. I wonder how did you write thw message *source taken directly .... which programm did you use?
octanet26 2 years ago
WOW! I hope I could find one that cheap! You're a lucky dude. Thanks for the review.....
dumbestname 2 years ago
Great deal on this man! One of my favorite systems was the Pioneer Laseractive which can also play Genesis and TG-16 games. Great review.
Gamester81 2 years ago
a couple of years ago in school we watched something on a laser disc... i remember the teacher taking the disc out, and i was like what the hell? Looks like a record but its a disc! then i had to look it up that night! lol
WeightGainingII 2 years ago
I too like older technology, mostly retro games and systems, but I also love old computers and old tvs.
Adjerry 2 years ago 2
Damn that's a huge disk
ArizonaWildcats 2 years ago
lol you mispell disc
SoraTheDarkKing96 2 years ago
You are'nt the only one that likes vintage technology! I too, also take an interest in retro technology such as VCR's LaserDiscs, etc.
MysticArksRevenge 2 years ago
Man everyone is getting LD players first its luke now its you. Man I want one now. How I'm going to find one around here is beyond me.
BigUnitDJ 2 years ago
Oh my. That is pretty awesome.
jaisinator 2 years ago
Great video.. I goes that I will buy one of those movies too.. just to have such a giant disc... xD
takashy87 2 years ago
that disc is huge
owensoft 2 years ago
hey jake, i just wanted to thank you for your amazingly tight schedule and daily videos. Posting videos every day is incredible and I just wanted to thank you. Keep up the awesome work!
TyTazzyTiger64 2 years ago 4
Saw one of those in an electronics store years and years ago. It was set up in the "home theater" room playing through a projector. I thought it was a really huge DVD or something. I would love to have one of these. Old technology is awesome.
anarki2004 2 years ago 2
I live in the UK and have 2 Laser Disc Players and one of them can read both sides of the disc so you don't need to flip it over. Also I was thinking about Laser Disc players earlier today and how hardly anyone here in the UK knows what one is anymore, then when I check youtube you have uploaded a video about one!
STRATUSFM 2 years ago
1978?? i always thought it started in the early 90's thats amazing
draysonvideo 2 years ago
Oh no...Rumble in the Bronx? Isn't that the movie in which a kid plays a Game Gear that DOESN'T HAVE A GAME IN IT?! *cries*
kubevubin 2 years ago 5
LOL yeah I noticed that!
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
So much for historical accuracy, eh? XD
kubevubin 2 years ago
6,99$ for a Player ??? WOOOOW, thats awesome man - over here in europe they are very rare and it costs u arround 50$ (Multinorm system) - also the Discs are more expensive then DVD´s (especially the shipping) ^^.
I did a little video where I showed my actual sony (looks a bit like ur one there) and also the inside of my old pioneer (linked it to lukes video yesterday), maybe that could be interesting for u as a technic fanatic, too ;-D
Anyway a very nice pickup u did there - LD4EVER! ;-D
Atarix777 2 years ago
I've seen Fantasia on Laserdisc about 5 years ago. I remember it to be about the same as a DVD, with menus. I might be wrong about that, it has been a while, but the video quality WAS like DVD, in that you didn't see optical "artifacts" like on a tape. The disc was a tiny bit smaller than a vinyl.
mostliberal 2 years ago
Rumble in the Bronx is so awesome, but as for LDs they always fascinated me because of the size of the discs. For 6 bucks you really can't go wrong though even if for just random coolness to show off.
supadupamoss 2 years ago
LOL, Rumble in the Bronx is so cheesy, but funny nonetheless.
Yeah I've heard of the Laserdisc format (although I've never used one), and I was also shocked to hear it was an analog format, despite it being optical based. I wonder how it works then...
abhitron 2 years ago
Me too I was surprised and didn't think that was ever done. The length of the pits or the depth? Not sure.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
Pretty neat. I have Rumble in the Bronx on DVD. Great movie. I love Jackie Chan movies.
youtubasoarus 2 years ago
Were you even alive when this format was first developed? I wasn't. Have you investigated the RCA CED format? There are some videos of CED players on YouTube.
Lachlant1984 2 years ago
wow it looks like dvd!!!!!!!
yeaitwasme 2 years ago
Nice deal, back in the 90s discs were in the hundreds in price. I bought my LD player when Lucasfilm just released the Original Trilogy in a black box set. It wasn't until they made a player that could play both sides without flipping the disc that I truely enjoyed the films to their fullest.
ldisc66 2 years ago
My dad knew a guy during the mid 1980's that had one of these. I actually got to see it play the movie JAWS, that was the movie they were watching. I now have JAWS 1 and 2 on DVD format :)
vox2007 2 years ago
Ya....towards the end of it's life the latest Laser disc players Had a Digital Rf out for Ac-3 (Dolby Digital) 5.1 surround sound. I had one of the last Laser Disc players produced, but sadly it shit the bed. I remember watching Se7en on Laserdisc...awesome shit!
RLMAudio 2 years ago
hehe, lukemorse1 already jumping on making a video O_o
vox2007 2 years ago
lol holy crap the laser discs are HUGE!
clrplstc 2 years ago
great video! I have over 100 laserdiscs from back in the day before dvd hit.
I still love my Pioneer player.
HappyConsoleGamer 2 years ago
LMFAO, What are the odds indeed.
I'm making my vid now haha.
lukemorse1 2 years ago
Yeah I picked up the player over a week ago and was going nuts trying to find movies for it!
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
Luke, try and find a Pioneer LD-W1. It had TWO trays, which allowed for four-sided 2 disc continous play.
STAY AWESOME!
cessnaace 2 years ago
Nice setup! I miss Laserdisc
What turntable do I see in the background? It looks a lot like mine.
Looks like a cool movie too.
Maxxarcade 2 years ago
Techinics SL-D202 Direct Drive unit I picked up in the box a few years ago for like $40 or something.
MN12BIRD 2 years ago
This seems to be a great format for it's time and even today it holds up very well against a DVD like you said.
scotdodgy 2 years ago