Playing a BLOOD RED laserdisc of Evil Dead 2

[agnamaracs]

Isn't there also a green LD of "The Toxic Avenger?"

[leifilerkaka]

It give one of my testicles for this.

[ChristensenKelly]

Im selling my copy of the blood red evil dead 2 laser disk on ebay. my username is kellyman1970. it just went up. 2/2/2011.

[ChristensenKelly]

Im selling my copy of the blood red evil dead 2 laser disk on ebay. my username is kellyman1970. it just went up. 2/2/2011.

[richie1438]

@exposed97

Every Laserdisc is now at least over 10 years old, the last one was printed in 2001 in Japan, that particular LD is probably 15-18 years old, the guy who posted the video can probably verify.

[CoTeCiOtm]

LDs are cool

[JoeyHollywood1]

@asianpride1226 when you say "bad" you mean best horror/comedy ever right?

[Hyperterdle6]

who need blue ray when you got BLOODRAY dvds

[berndpfe]

LD was a semi-digital (half-way the uncompressed analogue storage format, only digitized into pits). Therefore: big-sized like a 33cm Vinyl LP. But no good for thermal stability. So ugly :-)

But looks already "modern" because of its CD-alike surface.

Todays formats are much more powerful, fully digital, faster, inluding the storage code, and versatile (especially DVD, BD, for Data and Video). The manufacturing of LDs turned out to be too delicate in that size as they were fabricated first.

[pvx]

@berndpfe Yes, exactly--to elaborate, LDs use PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) to encode the pits, where the distance and duration of the pits mimic the "peaks and valleys" of the analog waveform of the information on the disc (specifically, a wideband FM-modulated carrier containing the video and 2 analog audio tracks). Later LD players & discs made after 1984 or so (i.e.-those discs & players with the "Digital Sound" logo) do have 2 digital audio tracks in addition to the 2 analog tracks.

[zedrein18]

The LaserDisc format had a fucking ridiculous storage medium: COMPOSITE video! That's right: CVBS! DVD is such a superior format.

[jooshiscrazy]

@zedrein18 Laserdiscs first were released in the late 70s, so you can't call it ridiculous considering that they didn't even have digital video back then.

[zedrein18]

@jooshiscrazy Whatever you say, mang. But shitty video is shitty video, trust and believe.

[jooshiscrazy]

@zedrein18 In the 80s and 90s, it wasn't shitty video. It was the best looking home video format available.

[pvx]

@zedrein18 But dot crawl and color separation issues aside, composite video can look quite watchable, given enough bandwidth. And LD has quite a bit of it to spare (enough for roughly 400 lines, just a hair under DVD's 480). So LD, even by today's standards, still looks good today (as far as SD video is concerned). And if your player (or TV) has a good enough comb filter, who cares if it's CVBS....!

I've seen a lot of composite video, and I think you're exaggerating its shortcomings a bit...

[JonathanMaroto]

Caraaaacaa...videeo Massa! =D

[firecad2006]

ow cool i want one

[RABBIDGamfan]

BLOOD RED?

Why can't they do DVDs like that?

[Watcher3223]

Because the red color of the plastic would interfere with the red laser beam in a DVD player.

Most LD players use lasers that operate in the IR range and even then the red color disc had problems playing in some players; there is a regular clear plastic version of this release specifically because of this problem.

[SausageMcNab]

Thanks for the post - I was wondering

[compwiz878]

@RABBIDGamfan just like the old sony psone discs that wher black colored makes u wander how they made a black cd be able to play ??????

[MIKON8ERISBACK]

@RABBIDGamfan The architecture of the digital data probably doesn't permit it.

[spacehelmetforacow]

@RABBIDGamfan LDs and CDs use an infrared laser, which means the light used to read the signal isn't visibvle in the normal spectrum. This means it can reflect any visible color it wants, (or not reflect, in the case of the incredibly badass-looking Black PS1 game CDs).

DVDs, on the other hand, use a red laser, which gives them a greater data density, but makes it so they *have* to always reflect red light.

You *might* be able to make a blood red DVD, but any other color is likely impossible

[silenceofthehills]

Laser disc, i'm sure, was inspired to make something similar to records for video.

[guruelectri]

no those were called CEDs. they were vynal records but with movies on 'em

laserdisc is an early (and much cooler) DVD

[silenceofthehills]

I just looked that up, it's even weirder and amazing how they did that.

[mikeb1444]

They used this magic called Algebra.

[silenceofthehills]

Well, I know math would be involved. Actually, I looked it up in more detail months ago.

[compwiz878]

@guruelectri yeh the large laserdisc wheer the same 12 inch size of a ced and the lp record album then they got shrunk down to like the size of a 45 rpr record then smaller that that the size of a cd we have now

[silenceofthehills]

Actually what I ment to say was that records inspired this format likely.

[guruelectri]

does anyone know where i can get a player just like the one in the video???

[peckishere]

ebay is most likely to be the best place to get a laserdisc player

[guruelectri]

i have a copy of one of these and i love it!!!!!!!!! if you don't have one, get it, or ........ "ill Swalloew Your Soul"

[asianpride1226]

Evil dead 2 is a bad film.

[lmyhoosier]

and yer mom is bad in bed

[asianpride1226]

LOL

[Illianos]

buddy of mine has this disc. I am still on the hunt for one for myself..would go great with my Evil Dead Gold Box Set that i have.

[KBenker]

sweet

[smoretaco]

Cool! How many other movies had special colored discs?

[b48753]

Man..looks that you've very valuable items.

1) Elite series LD player

2) A Recordable disc (which means your LD is not pressed, it's burned just like DVD-R)

[SpongLena]

Nope, the plastic dey made it from was dyed red.

[nippletease]

thats so fucking hott man .. ughh lucky mutha fucka

[Isaneguxa]

You don't have to be jealous bud. I found two different LD Players in a flea Market. Pioneer DVL-909 and Sony LDP-1550, both working and strikingly cheap (~40 and ~10 bucks respectively). Go hunting (be persistent) and I am sure you will find a bargain!

[nippletease]

ur awesome.. u deserve a high 5 for tat buddy.. gud job

[Watcher3223]

If *you* are going to buy a player: forget about the Sony and just get the Pioneer.

The Sony is only of worth if you have an arcade game that needs a player with RS-232. Otherwise, it's a basic, single-side play machine with analogue audio only; no digital audio.

The 909 will have digital audio as well as a digital output that will permit you to use DTS discs with a decoder as well as an AC-3 RF out so you can get Dolby Digital from AC-3 discs with an AC-3 RF demodulator and a decoder.

[Watcher3223]

And, of course, the 909 also features dual side play as well as DVD support, though it lacks DTS DVD support.

However, older versions of the 909 can be functionally converted into a Pioneer ELITE DVL-91 by a simple circuit modification, which unlocks DTS output support for DTS DVDs.

[HenryGQJ]

Is that the version with extra scenes they never put on DVD or Video? Could you upload them please?

[PearlJammer07]

My uncle has a laser disc player and one movie. Parents bought it for him back in the early 90's. I never knew these things existed till a few years ago. After seeing LD's at Half Price Books store.

[AlphaMax256]

My dad has a few LP's that are red and yellow too!

[seekanddestroy1200]

does that thing play ok with good quality and doesnt skip i would llike to see it play

[wilkes85]

they have pretty much the same picture quality as DVDs. Only difference is that they're about 500 times bigger lol

[AMOVIEROOM]

I remember red laser disc. Wow take me back to the eighties!

[MBpictures]

Laserdiscs' are the best format ever! Better than Blu-Ray, DVD, and VHS (though I still like those formats)!

[mgabrysSF]

Yep - they rot - can only hold an hour a side - have fewer lines of resolution than a DVD - and are as big as a house. They so RAWK! ROCK ROCK ON! Wooooooo! Let's go to Hooters! Monster Trucks!

[Watcher3223]

LaserDiscs rot only if they are not made properly, the same as CD, DVD, Blu-Ray Disc, and so on.

Properly made, a LaserDisc's life is the same as CD, DVD and so on: essentially unknown and theoretically beyond the life of the average person.

The world is more likely to run out of functioning players than having a properly manufactured disc rot under any normal circumstances.

And don't debase people who like LDs by insinuating them as "rednecks." It presents you very badly to other people.

[daltex81]

have you lost your fucking mind? laserdisc is the father but it can not hold a candle to Blu-Ray or HD-DVD!!

[dasgemuse]

no shit? really? i dont think any of us knew that. thanks for your informative comment.

[daltex81]

ok smart ass!

[DrMR2000]

Kind of knew that!! This was 20 plus year old technology was the best back then, "It like saying 386dx can't hold up to QuadCores CPU" Are you really that stupid?

[RAWNLEY]

COOOOOOOOOOOOOL

I love that movie

[hbkkl]

ok ok all here are explaining who made the disk but no one think how stupid is this video?

[bat115]

may be stupid... but it is educational for the younglings who never heard of laserdiscs

[hardcorefrokid]

I'm a young kid and I know what LaserDiscs are. I first watched Star Wars Episodes four through six on LaserDiscs.

[coejack]

lmao same here pal we still watch starwars

on betamax

[projectionbox]

Yup!  I also watch Star Wars on Betascratch..Beta is great fun.

[daltex81]

hey betamax is 5 times better than VHS! but people wanted VHS for recording and thats why VHS won.

[HolidaySeason4Ever]

You could still record on BetaMax. VHS was just cheaper to make, and the people behind VHS had more money to spend on marketing. The BetaMax players were also larger than the VHS players.

[siccoyote]

You couldn't up the extra behind the scenes footage could ya?

[Intersonus903]

Have any idea who made the disc?

Was it made in Japan, USA, or UK?

[NorthridgeRangers]

It was made by Elite and I'm pretty sure it was put out only in the U.S. It took me a long time to finally get one at a reasonable price!

[Intersonus903]

Well, Elite didn't actually make the physical disc itself as they would hire a facility to do the pressing run.

If the disc was made in a particular country, that helps to narrow it down. But, I'm willing to bet the disc was made in Japan by Mitsubishi Plastics.

[Watcher3223]

Your red "Evil Dead" disc was manufactured in Japan by Kuraray.

[southparkkelvintran]

that movie is porno

[BenDempster]

no, it isnt

[southparkkelvintran]

i made a mistake its super scary

[BenDempster]

Yea, Thats True But it is Also very good

[southparkkelvintran]

i havent watched it yet i bet its rated r

[BenDempster]

Well, then how do u know its super scary, and Im pretty sure its R

[southparkkelvintran]

i can tell if its scary or not

[BenDempster]

yea thats kinda true