Laserdisc's Video Quality

Well, my first video was just a couple of seconds too long to be accepted on YouTube. Oh well, the basic idea of that video was that I got a laserdisc player and showed off my collection. I'll show that collection off in a later video then. Anyway, on to Part 2!

In this video I show off the openings of Gosaurer and Dagwon and then show off a little bit of Return of the Jedi to help show off Laserdisc's nice video quality.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• laserdisc
• anime
• overview
• LD
• Pioneer
• Ehrgeiz
• Dagwon
• Gosaurer
• Star Wars

[philosoma9]

Quality analog video will always be much better and natural

 than compressed digital DVD !!

Long live Laserdics

[2pacbiggie4334]

@Enigmatism415

lol truthfully, my belief is that digital is simply not as good as a natural, analogue system. blu ray has a much better resolution. I own a blu ray player, and so many blu ray movies. I just wonder why we gave up on a format like laser disk. i think with a few improvements it could have been something amazing

[lizichell2]

@leerees Analog will only be as clear as the signal path is from filiming, editing, processing and transferring to disc and to tape. Each step degrades the quality a bit. Digital is cheaper and now, it surpasses older analogue systems in quality, cost, reliablility and convenience. It is true that in theory an analogue system could be created to match the best digital quality but it would be hard to market and not cost effective.

[lyris1]

@MrJ0mmy No, MPEG-2 is digital. They used Composite video.

[leerees]

Analogue will always be clearer, the reason blu ray looks so great is because it's high resolution hides the compression artifacts. Unfortunately compression exists because it makes distribution cheaper, be it a television broadcast or a digital download, we are all forced to watch compresed video but I do remember analog TV in the UK and the quality was amazing. Digital UK TV is highly compressed and looks like shite, even the HD channels.

[protestifications]

@MrJ0mmy yup, analog mpeg-2

[MrJ0mmy]

what did they use mpeg2 or what?

[codebreaker1983]

@GatesOfGehenna76 Ma euh

[GatesOfGehenna76]

What the hell did you say at 0:03?

[MrAlcazar]

@jjovereats Yes, they do convert/upscale analog signals but it's because of that, the analog signal is degraded. But as I said, you're better off using an External line doubler, that will output RGB or VGA into the DTV. That way you get higher resolution with the least amount of distortion.