 Everybody how are we all doing? It's Thursday everybody. Hello. Hello. Welcome in See the chat is already lively today, which is awesome I'm gonna give you guys some shout outs here in a second But I want to thank some people who are always here at least lately always have and Number one is like snuffer stuffer. You've been here at every show lately. So thank you for showing up for sure mega cards F The TM Thank you for coming early Tony Escobar. Thank you for showing up. I hope your wonderful package arrives today We'll have more information on what I'm talking about very soon on that But first off, thanks everybody for coming. Thank you Brian Joel Dillinator. Thank you Pasadio Over Oval fast six. Sorry. I can barely see my thing. What's up Daniel Gomez? What's up Kevin? Hey dudes good to see you here Louise, thank you. Thank you everybody Just getting started here another live episode of the bunker. I'm letting my things get rolling here at first off if You happen to be showing up to this stream later on after it's been publicized Please note that there will be a pinned comment In the comment section that will tell you where you could jump ahead of everything and you could get straight to our main topic today Which is? laser disconnecting The good the bad and the ugly of laser disconnecting. I'm gonna tell you all the behind secrets that I know and Tell you about the format show you a ton of examples. I'm gonna give you my entire collection. I'm gonna run through it I've got it boxed up here. It's quite heavy just like the CRTs. We love to haul around But if you're coming on later and you just want to skip through this whole intro Please note that you could do so because I do have I Do have some things I have to work through here just like any great show and Hey Belmont and Super guy CRT. Thank you guys for showing up today Unchiga thank you Andrei also Muhammad Sierra, I believe I'm getting all this Aziria. Okay. I'm sorry if I missed anything up Thank you all as always for showing up and first and foremost I just want to say thank you you guys always do a great job of hitting the like button on the show I know it's always kind of cheesy to come out here and always be asking you to do things But please, you know if you hit the like button for me It actually does help this show and it increases the reach a bunch So I really appreciate it anybody that can do that if you're able to and just go up there and hit it for me it does help a lot even if this is on a replay and I've said it before but every time the like button gets hit it results in about eight to ten new views for the show Which is awesome, and it's cheap. It doesn't cost anything. So that's My push for you to please hit the like on the button now Again today is the bunker. It's a live episode. I am here joining you live from the bunker I do have coal with me. So if you hear some snoring from the side it's because he's resting and We've been doing a lot of exercises and so he's he's quite tired and that's all good. Hey, Edward and So anyway today's agenda. Well, we've got again the laser disc collecting, which is the main topic I have a fun cool little product. I'm going to Show you quickly and this is not like a sponsorship for the show Because that's what I'll talk about in a second But there is a cool little product I'm going to show you that a lot of you probably already have but some of you may not know about and Then I also want to go through and show you the convention again We've talked about it before but I will be at the music city multicon Which is a big fun convention here at the end of October so we're about one month away from that happening and I've been in contact with the show promoter and I do an awesome presentation there We went through it live, but I've been perfecting it in my head and I think it's going to be a lot more fun this year So I try to make it different because I want the people who came last year Who are local if they get a chance to to come back and come back to the show again and make it different as opposed to something they saw last year and So you can always You know go check that out on my channel or the channel for the music city multicon We'll look at some more stuff on that in a second But first off this show does have an official sponsor right now And that is you lovely folks over at the retro tech patreon page and all use people who support us Support me and call it the wonderful team over here Which is really just the two of us that work on things and all the CRTs and really it's been an awesome Way to build an amazing community here. I'm really serious and thanking you all for that So you guys are the best sponsors. I'll be honest with you I have been getting reached out for some product sponsors from really generic things, you know normal crap To be honest, and I don't even entertain it I've only done one official like paid sponsorship on my channel ever and it was for an article for adobe like for a retro themed tech article that they wrote that they wanted me to Plug and I had no problem plugging that because there's no product there I really don't like talking about products unless I know an awful lot about them And there's very rare times I actually even take a product for free and review it or anything like that So that's that's not what this show is really about right now so the again the patreon people they are the main sponsors and Just to give you guys a little bit of a view here of like That patreon this is the this is the place to go to it. I'm sorry to keep plugging this Just real quickly retro tech USA make sure it says that this is the patreon levels. It's a dollar Starting and if you actually go in here This one the things that I've been building over the last golly three or four years has been just an amazing community That it's loading up now, but it's amazing community where you get a chance to not only it's not just about you know Patreon page this is more about again a community where people can go in and If I show you this here this for example is the newest thing we've been working on but It's really a way to connect with a lot of people on a number of reasons and fronts First of all the newest thing we're working on here is have to laugh about laugh about this But this was something that Again, this is the community So you have to be on the patreon to get into this because again that keeps out a lot of trouble and things and it keeps things People nice and really just work. It's only a buck a month, but we do amazing things in this community We have places where people want to buy list stuff And then they if they have stuff to sell you get sales listing sales discussions This is an awesome place to always look at stuff specifically for CRT stuff and retro gaming things And this is people like you in the community and like me so but this has all been building for years There's a lot of activity in it the newest thing is the dad and mom bod accountability group and We've been laughing but Lewis my good friend says retro has been pushing me and I've been pushing him back to keep our exercise routines going as we've been Growing our amazing dad bods and I thought you know, we discussed this a lot more on the cathode ray podcast episode I did with him last but You can see more about that, but it was really an accountability chance for us to you know It's always crazy I sit here and I work out by myself and I think the reason I fail a lot of times is because there's nobody holding me accountable and there's nobody I can share like this experience with and So we decided you know, let's all hold each other accountable So I'll have another special pace to Patreon message about this more in-depth about my journey because honestly, it's taken me Probably ten weeks so far to get to the point. We're actually started this group So it's unfair because I'm a little bit ahead of everybody and everybody who's jumped on board I really thank you for jumping heads in and encouraging people Because we can sit here and fix old tech and old electronics, but we need to also make sure we're taking care of ourselves as best we can and I think that I know personally I always have like this drive to maybe do something a little bit better with myself when I can and so That's really what that's about. So sorry to do that long weird plug for everybody. I Hope I didn't run everybody off this morning already, but again, thank you for being here and I have some really cool news. I did actually get a full episode new episode done that will be coming out tomorrow and Sometimes I get so hyped up. I kind of got to slow myself down and my speed. Am I talking? Hey Ariel So Yeah, a lot of people in here in the chat. They are into it. I am doing yoga. I've been doing DDP yoga I've been doing push-ups and Walking Cole at least a mile and a half every day that I can and so I'm on like I'm not trying to push this on a bit of a fast track right now, but Yeah, so you got to be strong so you can lift these amazing huge CRTs and then you know We'll have like the CRT Olympics one day at a convention where we all just bring the most broken busted CRT we can that's 13 inches and we try to chuck it as far as we can like a shot put into a field and Do it live or something. So anyway, so the new episode will be out tomorrow It's gonna be a showdown between Two eight inches two eight inches. Isn't that funny? Two eight-inch swords going at it. It's uh a Sony KV 880 12 which is the one I had on the live show last couple times you guys have seen it and then I also Re-featured a PVM 8044 Q which is the higher resolution PVM It's like a showdown versus and it's in 4k. I spent all this extra time and hardware space editing in 4k, so You're gonna have to gonna have to enjoy this a lot because I was talking to a lot of people like shank and Bob and we were just laughing. I was like 4k is ridiculous. How much? How much space it takes to do one 4k episode and then my camera is like wanting to melt like a molten hot Lava cake right there like exploding lava cake right in your face But it's your GoPro and it's like you've only been filming for 90 seconds and in the batteries like 30% down so it's really a pain in the neck and So anyway, they're probably only gonna be one One 4k episode Every six months or something. I'll do it though. I want to keep doing it because I love it. So anyway That'll be out tomorrow about noon and look for the CRTs on each other. I Don't have any amazing thumbnail skills So I had to kind of go budget thumbnail for a little while while YouTube goes to them algorithm algorithms changing. Yeah 4k is tough. All right. Now. I told you a second ago. We're gonna look at a quick plug for a Two more things and these are not sponsored by anything I would just love to first off see any of you people that you can come To this convention. I would absolutely love to see you there. I will be there all weekend and First off that is the music city multicon This is a Wonderful show that's kind of isolated from Nashville So you don't have to worry about being in downtown Nashville if that's something you really don't want to be in You can find cheaper places to stay cheaper places to eat in this area very easy And it's outside of town and then if you want to do something in town you can get into town quite quickly right there It's right off the interstate But this is in again the Nashville, Tennessee area. It's October 27th 27th 28th and 29th I will be showing up on the 27th and I will be there all day The 28th and I have to leave the 29th So I can't be there really Sunday very much, but check out this awesome guest list and I mean look at it. You get Danny Trejo. Okay. How cool is that now? Other cool people here, but what about this row of amazing? Old-school wrestlers and I have a plan here. Okay, and if anybody else wants to come along and do this too I highly recommend it I Will be bringing an 8-inch PVM I'm gonna get each one of these guys to sign it I know it's gonna cost me like 300 bucks probably to have these three dudes Autograph my PVM, but I'm gonna get him to sign the shell So if anybody else has the guts to come down there waste a bunch of money Or at least just you want to see it happen with me person you want to come see the PVM that I let them sign I will get that done and So that's my plan as long as as long as I could get the right amount of the right amount of cops that I need To cover this this trip because I was already normally I didn't ask for comps on this show in the past But since I'm traveling in from out of town now This used to be my hometown show when I lived in Nashville. So this is this is what I'm super excited about I mean if I have enough money to get hang out with Danny Trejo and these three dudes and not to mention that I'll be like in the in like the the Like the craft services I laugh it's like there is a room that's VIP room with Fully catered and stuff. I'll be hanging out in there and hey I don't know see I read that a lot of these guys like quit drinking which is cool I don't want to be any temptation anybody But man I would love to bring some like expensive bourbon in there and like get one of these guys going if they actually do drink it So we'll see what the hell happens I Got some other cool people here. This is a really mixed Large convention got the look at this got everybody from the Mortal Kombat team here and our buddy Tim Kitzrow This guy's on fire literally so much fun and then look the retro crew You got my buddies over at my life in gaming who I will be hanging around with all weekend So you can come say hi to them if you're gonna be around and of course me I'll call myself the $17,000 man since that's what I've got on my my thumbnail right there the 17,000 my Yeah, I don't know well I don't want to have anybody to have a relapse and like I mean the sad thing is IRS's son just passed away Like of a heart attack or something really recently and he's even younger than me. So Anyway, this is the show. That's the lineup not not to mention. There's gonna be an amazing Amount hey no Billy Mitchell this year. Yeah, Tim will be there again Dell. Thank you for showing up Dell Big reveal, yeah Excuse me There you go Man, it's gonna be so much fun There's gonna be a so here's what there is. There's a big table Tons. It's like the last retro game. You should probably all of them. You know, this guy's probably got like 40 CRTs All in one section and he's gonna post me up like right in that CRT section So I'll have a booth there Retro tech gonna be on the main gaming floor And I'm like dude if you do that I want to get there early and I'm just gonna start grabbing CRTs that you have on the floor That are like really in bad shape and I'm gonna pull them off I'm gonna videotape about them will open them up see if we can service them and that'll be a real fun So if you come over you may be able to catch me in the middle of a CRT teardown and then my presentation is gonna just be crazy. I need a megaphone You know, it's gonna have a megaphone see I don't want to do that because that might piss off Jimmy Right. I mean, there's absolutely no way Jimmy Hart doesn't have a It's Danny trail. I don't know but if I bring a PVM I will get Danny trail to sign it To that's all part of this thing. So If I can afford all that man, these guys like there's their charge in big bucks. So I don't want to I don't want to run out of money just doing that. So anyway, that's the multicon One last thing we'll look at here real quickly. I want to show you guys something very cool I'm sorry. This camera just loves to glitch out on us Okay, let me turn some lights on here. So we're gonna go overhead here for a second and I want to give you a quick shout out to one of the cool analog video Cables and cable production Outfits that's around now. They're not huge large scale But what they make they make awesome and that's insurrection industries and what I have for you is one of my many S video cables here. I have a few of these things. This is and again This is not sorry goodness gracious. This is nothing that I am getting paid or sponsorship for I bought this with my own money and I've bought a couple of them and These are just amazing. They're high quality the quality on the connectors right here and this Connection point right here is unbelievable. It's just money. Well worth spending and if you're looking for a good as video Capable cable to pair with a number of things, right? You can use Gamecube You can use Nintendo that that outputs as video if you have a modification with the multi out or Super Nintendo n64 this is one of the most handy little devices and I have a bunch of them and Just to give my friend over there at the website a quick shout out. This is the cable. I'm talking about It's not even that unreasonably priced. There's a ton of information on it I know some of you probably already have this cable and Like me love it and it's actually in stock. Okay, it says it's in stock Which is surprising to me usually it's out of stock and I've got to follow it on Twitter I also have some of his other cables or their other cables But specifically if you're looking for s video, this is awesome. Okay They do make other stuff absolutely some of the other things I have oh goodness gracious I mean you can check out here. It's all kinds of things. One of the other things I use all the time is an adapter Well, I don't know let's see See there's a bunch of cables here and they're all really really well made and and there's a lot of people who make good cables But I always have Great success. There's also have the Carbine But if you want to see more you can go to insurrection industries and Google and you can find that very easily. Okay Hey grail. Thank you for coming today. Yeah, everybody. Thank you for jumping in again and look I hate to say it again. I know we've already been here 20 minutes But I'm gonna give you a head and say it twice now. This is basically a time We're gonna jump into our main topic after our 20 minutes of Me running through everything We're about to jump into the main topic and if you don't mind Please do if you haven't already if you're new if you're here hit the like button and that will again help the reach Of the show. I really appreciate it. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Della's dropped a link for insurrection industries again This is something we're not getting any kind of kickback on this This is just something that I really use and I actually enjoy and I Again think that if you get it, you'll like it too. Okay And it mean to start off with this picture right here, but let's go over here to my files Because I want to talk about our main topic 21 minutes and 54 seconds into the stream Main topic time That is Laser disk collecting 101 and what's what's what's inspired this? well You know over the last week or so there's been all kinds of leaks online or I don't know if you call them leaks anymore you know, it's you get on Twitter or X and You see pictures of the newer consoles that are coming out post the modern current console generation So I'm referring to things like After what we have right now the Playstation 5 and the current Xbox whatever it's called. I honestly don't know I don't know but I was seeing the designs for the next Xbox and it got me thinking there's no way that I mean maybe Nintendo maybe Nintendo. I just don't see any of these other companies though Xbox or Playstation have an any more kind of interface with um physical media Not like we do now or if it is it's going to be something completely different where it's More like the crazy Tommy Tillerico Nonsense with the scanning cards and stuff. So I just don't see there ever being another time Uh, we're physical media like we're watching the total end of it And the thing is is every time I try to mention it and it comes up It feels like there's a little bit of a a mentioning but a lot of people just don't care um We're the stewards. We're the ones who are, you know Fostering this community and trying to make sure that preservation happens on our own kind of our own Wonderful things we get to do here myself and other people but And you all too who are working on things and preserving all this types of media and stuff Um Besides us like the modern people do not care Like they don't care See it as junk And they've been kind of pushed down that path. So I got me thinking what's the ultimate form of a um Media and that's what we're going to look at today. And that's the laser disc first off I'm going to briefly show you some pictures of my laser disc player because it's so beefy. I can't actually pick it up and uh Bring it in here and hand it to you guys uh, but This is my pioneer. Oh, look, I'm sorry. I've still got bob's cam still written down here. I didn't even realize that was down there Okay, that's funny. Let's get bob's camera Right out of there. Okay I'm so sorry about that everybody anyway, here is the, uh Laser karaoke player. So I think this will actually play cds laser discs plays karaoke discs Uh laser disc karaoke was a thing believe it or not There's mic volume and Um, you know echo controls silly things Over here you got a display panel some more audio stuff And then these interesting again different sounds I've never been able to actually use the karaoke on here. I just don't have any of that stuff Maybe one day we can do that live that would be fun laser disc karaoke, but I didn't get it for that purpose Um, somebody reached out to me and made me a good deal on this. They got this for a hundred dollars And it works fully And sorry about that blurry picture. This is the model. Yes cd cdv Oh, excuse me cdvd Didi didi didi cd cdv laser disc player The v 720. Okay. It's a pretty good unit Uh, you've got direct search mode up here which in some instances You can shuffle through the chapters Using these numbers up here which go to like it goes pretty high. I don't know why I don't have it shown there Let me see if I can get a picture where it shows 20 So you can go up to like 20 chapters The problem is this particular unit has no fast forward or skip buttons. Okay So without the remote Sometimes I get in a situation where I have to just let it play or pause it I have to watch it all the way through or pause it Because I can't skip chapters in it. It's it's that's the one bad thing about this unit um, if there's There's a lot of times we just have to let it play and if you know anything about laser disc We'll get on how that functionality works. There's the key functioning. Uh, sorry, there's the Front display though Here's the back of the unit. You have two video outs and audio outs which are Producing that stereo audio. Uh, you have uh a vhf adapter Out with direct current you have this control in and out over here, which you can use to use almost uh It's a way to hook old analog equipment together and sequence so that you could use a different pioneer remote if you had an old receiver from this era to go with this device okay and Just a standard. This isn't anything out of control like high-end. There's so many nicer models of these Out there. It does have an attune attenuator And i'm not really sure what that does. I don't believe i've ever really messed with that switch everything works fine on it though and uh If you want to know almost, you know, what to expect on a pricing on this particular unit just going on to ebay slightly over 200 us dollars for ones that are similar to this And also do not have a remote control And if you're lucky you can go into a thrift store and find something like this Sitting in a pile of dvd players And get it for 20 dollars or less That's really a nice thing if you can get that otherwise if you want to go here and get something that's tested It's not completely crazy. The pricing isn't nuts for something that you buy online okay Well enough of all that let's get into the fun stuff here, right? Let's start talking about the collection challenges and things like I said This is an ultimate form of physical media. So to start things off. I want to show you what this physical media looks like With my own collection I just love them Holy holy crap now this Wow This is heavier than I thought. Oh my word. Actually, I'm probably can't believe this on the table I think it's gonna like collapse my streaming table. It's it's heavier than most uh Most of my crts look Oh, blame me for the price increase. So here's what I have. This is what I've collected so far I'll run through and pull them out and I'll show you the cool ones Uh But that's wow. I didn't think it was that heavy. I hadn't had them on one box yet Before all right so Along the lines of your lp records These you know, there's a ton of different quality to these things. There's different Covers some movies will have just crazy different covers Here's just an old classic right Moby Dick and uh, if I'm if I'm looking at this first off When For example, when I was buying this one, this one came from a rental store So it just has a sleeve similar. This is one of the more basic ones This is a sleeve similar to your Albums from An lp same size same size is a record And then the back is usually like this right for these standard ones loaded with information CBS fox Up here's a code from the old rental store. This came from So there was a store in nashville that used to rent Out laser discs and they sold this huge collection to a store nearby Um So what to note about this specifically so you get all this awesome cool information obviously tons of You know Dialogue there on the back. Uh, you want to look for things on here You know like extended play may say something sometimes you'll get if you if you get something like this where it doesn't specifically state it These can be amazingly Good to get because they do not or they're in four by three A lot of times i'll show you in a minute a lot of times these will be in widescreen And uh, you they'll tell you that on the front of the cover But these older more simpler ones are usually in four by three and for me most of the time on these older movies That's what I want is four by three so I could set this up on a four by three CRT or something Uh and and and watch it that way and again, I'm going really through this one particularly But we're not going to go through all of them on the inside Because a lot of them that are these simple ones are just in a sleeve like this And Then if you pull out the discs these these are just so cool looking though, right? How cool looking is that like? Is that not the coolest? I know maybe most of you've seen these but It is gigantic bigger than my head believe it or not And dual sided Okay, and for example, this is an extended play because this is a this is a movie Let me see how long this one is pretty good long term. It's almost two hours 116 minutes okay, so you have Almost an hour on each side of this. There's no real menu or anything. It just starts playing right? You just hit play it hits go it has a little has a little Intro usually this is like laser disc and then That's it So even with this like the video quality is it's worse on these particular discs because again just like tapes You're jamming more data And you're compressing that down That's about as long as they could get on one side of these is an hour's worth of a movie and sometimes you'll get out where You know a movie will have less than that on a side and It can be dependent on the quality of the disc. It can be all kinds of factors You know, there's a lot of things back then that will probably remain unknown Uh about the actual production on a lot of these But that's one now. This is an interesting one I'm not going to go through every single one again like this, but this one I was like this is fine. It's like Jude Law there in the cover, but this was one another old Uh, which isn't him. I'm not sure who that is. It's a Roman Polanski film Anyway, I bought this because again, it's something I just never see on tv, right? How do you watch mcbeth anymore? Perfect kind of thing for a laser disc So this is a big bigger deluxe kind of a addition where Well, it's from the the rental place again uh, but it's Let's see if it says anything about extended play on here So no it doesn't but it does say it's by playboy productions Which is quite interesting on here. It says playboy productions 1971 And these are the real these things are really cheap. Okay Like these I bought Marks down like 30 on a sale And these are about two dollar two three dollars, but this is one that has yeah, it's extended play again So just like the last one it's extended play and you've got this one actually has four discs because the length on this one is Kind of scratchous It doesn't even say on here, but it's Damn long But Here's what I'll tell you this one has issues where it won't play. It's got Um, I've been trying to find on it. I can't really see anything specifically I was hoping I could see Like obvious disc rot Because that's something that can happen to these discs But if we look closely here, let's see if I can get this overhead camera to Look here. Look at that. Look at that reflection on there. You can see my lovely face. You can see how my nose hairs sorry but This is hard. It's a hard thing to judge because even this one looks completely It looks completely fine, but there's some rotting going on somewhere in it Like maybe maybe it's right there where the light is you said light bulb right there. See how there's like kind of speckles kind of shining through Those little rot will actually cause it to stop playing and it just freezes It simply freezes So you have to get in there and realize that it's very difficult sometimes to even see the rot now this This one is one that's like super light and it's very hard to see but I can't get it to play no matter what I do And it's the only one I own like this Only one I have in my entire collection that I've not been able to play is the mcbeth. So That is uh Yeah, I know del was just asking me to show and talk about that That's an example of that rot happening on this laser disc right here where It's just so light and it's a couple of speckles, but it's preventing it from playing Can't watch mcbeth the good thing I will say the good thing is it stopped itself in the first Literally 60 seconds and it just won't go past it Thankfully, yeah mcbeth of course you guys are hilarious thankfully, um It was in the first 60 seconds. So I didn't get into it. It was like you watch it after three or four hours It's it wraps out on you. So You've got to be mindful of that or you've got to be willing to If you're spending a lot I would really want to have it tested if I was spending a lot of money now in that case I spent like a dollar fifty on that one. So I'm not that upset But if I had spent a lot of money on it, I wouldn't have I wouldn't be happy. So I'm just going to grab some more here. So this is another This is a later edition Um, how about this one anybody aware know about this film? It's pretty fun This is one of the like again, nobody talks about the bounty Look at this. You get mel Gibson anthony hopkins. I love Like ship movies from this time period almost like master and commander ish um Mutiny this has a very young mel Gibson who else is in this Liam Neeson? Uh, there's a lot of people that are it really it's just from 1984 It's is a 133 minute movie. So again, you're getting over an hour. And I believe yep. See since it's over an hour This is Uh, it is extended play still, but it's on two different discs Right There you go So, uh, this is a really fun Cool movie again. I like things that I can't normally find easily. I mean you probably could if you just google this stuff, but You know watching it on these old formats when they really um It's really interesting like this They say so this is presented in it's two 2.35 by one jdc scope aspect ratio. I have Never heard of that aspect ratio before so if anybody knows that Please let us know but it is this is a wide screen edition So notice how the other ones did not say this this one will show up as a widescreen Okay, I do not know um I want to test some more with my machine and a widescreen crt That's like an analog widescreen not a new high definition widescreen. You'll find the right widescreen crt Ooh dark man. Yeah, that would be a good one. All right Um Another movie. This is again. See sometimes you'll get these widescreen where it's a sticker Signature collection. So you get these weird collections Similarly to anything in physical media form re-release re-release re-release. This is the boxer another Classic daniel day lewis. I love daniel day lewis. Who doesn't right? Uh two hour movie, but this one look at this one. Let's see We can actually pull this out. This was purchased this has a purchase date on it of 7 10 1998 And I'm actually removing that so We're going to show you kind of what these this deluxe collection edition So as you can see here, this one would it's not like the others we've seen so far okay, we've got Some just amazing pictures in here artwork from the movie We have all our chapters on all sides of the disc listed out here on this side You're getting You know, it's like easter egg stuff, right? You're getting all kinds of behind-the-scenes information A little bit more some behind-the-scenes pictures there And if we look inside, uh, there's not really much on the inside of these But again, we're we're on a three three discs and let me see what this says Yeah, it's still extended play same quality level of video, but Uh, that was a thing that was often done, right? You either get the cheap version or you could get a little bit more and I'm going to show you some here in a minute that are really special But a lot of these I bought for you know About that dollar to two dollar range So that'll be a good marking place right there Um some more, you know classic stuff again another re-release now. This is not something Yeah, I did Dan B. Thank you. Thank you for the super chat Dan was asking two dollars about the Himalayan, but did you go over spotting? Right. It's very difficult. I can't like I don't I wish I had a good example where it's Obvious, but we did show some where it's going to look more like I mean it normally comes in like little speckles like We saw if you want to go back and and and watch the stream on maybe like a higher definition On a playback you may be able to see that better Because uh, that's why I recommend always inspecting it closely too if you get any of this stuff Because it is fun, but this is heavy media and it's not easy to put this in and out of that machine It's got flip the disc on mine Now some others you don't have to flip the discs But you have to awkwardly grab that thing flip it And do all that Okay, yeah, if you guys want to tag me and like Twitter or something with some pictures of disc rot that would be awesome if you have any so this is uh This is like a restored version. This is uh, I think this is even in like the public domain now So we could probably Maybe if people really want to get nerdy we could probably watch this movie and not get in trouble by the Copyright police, but I guarantee you somebody would say that we use their music But if I'm not mistaken this movie originally may be so old But they might claim that this restored version belongs to them, you know those don't want to give it up This was because this one's from 87. All right. This is this this copy and um Extended play discs. It's funny because the side three this is the first one I've seen like this check this outside three on here Sorry, let's try to move the other direction. There's Stefano side three Seats is cav. It says standard play So that's cav is a better quality than the other two Oh, this is a meme central meme classic jeremiah johnson If anybody knows what i'm talking about right If I had a nice beard Looking over a waterfall I don't know. Anyway Fun movie. I love this movie another dollar dollar band It's definitely in standard definition Extended play though. I'm still not finding these ones that are in high definition for a laser disc but It's Not widescreen. I don't think it's widescreen. I might be telling you then it probably no video extended play No, I think it's I think it's not widescreen. Anyway Classic. Here's another one. Now. This was one I bought because again, I've never seen it And I'm like they never play these kind of movies anymore like these kind of movies This next one falls into that category The killing fields right When's the last time anybody saw this on like Daytime television. I don't know if that's ever happened. Probably shouldn't happen some really brutal scenes in this movie um But this is one of the things that I would kind of look for would be ones that I had never seen this movie. Okay. It was not even a thing of I like this movie. It was I had never seen this movie. I didn't want to just rent it. So it was there I think this was like a three dollar one Again from the rental store These Let me see here Let me see here. These may so this is this is from 84 this movie What I want to see if it tells me anything about Ah, man, so it's doing the same thing where It says this video is extended play on sides one and two This format can offer chapter search scan pause and dual channel sound. So it's dual channel sound, right? That's how it's set up side three is full feature standard play Also offering freeze frame slow fast motion and random access random access capabilities When not in use place Uh, the video disc and jacket and store in a cool dry place So you do need to store these in a cool dry place. Yeah, I watch them on all kinds of stuff. I watch them on Uh, I love watching them on old really nice crts that are bigger not just bvms bvms bvms with high resolution line count. That's not that great for 480 i you get flickering a lot A lot of people have talked about that for years Now look most of the things I have are very cheap You can of course run into ones that are going to cost a ton of money There's a collector everywhere and there's a sucker born every day So don't be one of those suckers. Don't worry about it if you can't find it on this format You get really into this just just go with that's the fun part. It's never it's let me show you That's the thing about my collection. It's never about like oh, I've got to have this movie Uh on On things it's more about the hunt. It's more about finding places that actually sell this stuff And trying to find it out in the wild. It's less about trying to Go online and buy things up and acquire them um Let's grab another stack here. Oh, this is gonna be a family. Here we go. So this is one of um Some of you may be familiar with I believe this. Yeah, this is a terry gilliam film Not the biggest of all of them, you know, he had brazil, which is amazing Which I would have taken brazil number one probably Uh, but a bunch of you know terry gilliam classic Movies right there. So this is the baron the adventures of baron munchausen, which is one of those huge flops uh For a movie like if you go and look at documentaries documentaries on this movie It was kind of a flop and But it costs a ton of money to make there's a lot of interesting things in this movie. It's crazy It's got a young umma thurman in it Time bandits time bandits was the other one and time bandits was a lot of fun I actually watched that recently with my son. He fell out of interest of this one So just like the others this is not um This is not a deluxe edition. It is the standard edition on this one. So there's not anything beyond just The regular thing now it does say it has dolby Right this one this one advertises dolby surround digital surround sound. Okay So You tell this is one that yeah, I got it the sale. It was originally marked for 3.99 And I've watched it. It works perfectly So that's that one. Okay, we're at the killing field Don't want my stack to follow. All right. So now I've got some freebies. I haven't watched yet This is some gifts I got from bob when I went to retro world expo he hooked me up with Like look at this. Oh, baby No mercy. I mean, what the hell is this right? No mercy. I love finding these weird Weird movies like this these 90s and 80s movies that have big movie stars, but you're like no mercy. What the hell is that? Um, so this is an R rated movie. Maybe Maybe you get to see Maybe you get to see like richard gear's butt in it or something. I don't know can basin basing or somebody's butt's being shown in this I don't know who it is um Let's see extended play clv Nothing really out of the ordinary. That's the thing that's interesting to me is how many of these Are on like the look they could have done better with these I'm trying to find ones that are like a whole set I bet there's a really high end set of of Like star wars or something I don't know snuffer. It's just like I saw his chin and it popped out to me the first thing I saw was richard gear You know It's always he's always had that pronounced I can't imagine what what else would be in there that would make it an r rating a lot of smooching A lot of smooching. That's what we'll say This is one again a new one. Look at this. Unopened another This was a gift from bob again Ask him. I have no clue Like jarard. They part do I watched the one the one jarard. They part do movie. I remember watching was the one where he was like My father the hero or something anybody remember that one Another bob gift. I have no I have no freaking clue about these right The slingshot a new film by is that ace ache ache How about that ache sandgren? Okay, what's that? What's that over the A? I'm not being disrespectful. I really have no idea. Anyway, did looks widescreen presentation Let's see if this one claims to be any higher quality Uh, it is presented in letterbox format Which recreates the film's theater screen image. I mean was it like this movie? Was it even in the theater? Are they sure about that? It says 93 film come out on this on 90 Or my goodness. What in the world? um And of course this is an extended play format not high definition We'll find one I hope or or that'll be the whole thing to find all right This is the last two from bob's collection again. What? An albert finney film How about that for run the run of the country? how about that for a Bit of odd odd ballery and in this one a richard harris Oh Columbia classics good old cromwell. I have no idea what cromwell is So Um, let's see. Oh, it looks to be. I mean this is this is like fully loaded. Let's see if this cromwell This will be the only thing um It's the same thing right well this one's weird. It says side one and three are extended play Uh, but side two is standard play So you can do freeze frames in standard play. I mean, it's just so odd Right It's just the thing about space, right? How long is your movie? Why isn't there like a four disker? Okay, I'm gonna freeze through some for some quickly This has been a lot of fun. I hope everybody's enjoying it and hey Again, I hate to keep bringing this up folks, but if you could and you haven't already just drop a like for me Um, it does again help. It will help more people. Now. This is a fun movie. Uh Backdraft, huh? 90s classic 1991 And let me see what this says if this is anything cool That's different than the others Uh, again, it does the whole now now i'm seeing them all the time that are saying like Standard play Standard play and then extended play for another disc So really the the fun thing about collecting laser discs is you can get them for cheap right now If you get a good player, you can set up a cool little home Movie experience with them and it's better than it's going to be a step up if they work It's going to be a step up from vhs. Okay. That's definitely true And uh, even if it's not good, it's like stuff like this. This is a cool Like look at that cool cover art. You could make a cool Oh, uh Wall art with something like this check this out. This is william defoe. Gregory hines off limits everybody So that's the reason I bought this was literally because again, it's a movie. I don't know that I've ever seen maybe I have I don't know anything about it I just love I love the cover Now the back isn't anything special. It's got a lot of that information kind of like the back This is like a triple back of a vhs tape, right? This is like the dream amount of info you get to put on there, right? You get to actually hire a writer and write triple like you only have this much space on a vhs tape But here you've got three times that Yeah, look at that. Look at that one. Look at that. I mean, I love that dude. That's so old school cool looking I Don't know why that's it ready. Oh, and this was something that actually came with my um The free thing I got with my laser disc player. I actually love this too. This is fun to set up and show it shows. It's a just a Disc that shows promos. It shows like a clips of each movie Um, there's tons of movies on here and it shows like goofy skits about laser discs Maybe that will be fun. All right one show we're gonna we're gonna do this and then we're gonna save it maybe for like The bunker late night edition where i'm gonna pick some of these laser discs and we're gonna try to watch them And and and you know what I can do I can set up my streaming camera on me and I can actually Stream these because I can send them in probably through just a retrotink 2x From the composite video out and we can probably go through this safely Without getting a copyright flag and possibly all along the western front just to have some fun Yeah, some of them do and I'll show you some that do include some inserts, but um The thing I got a lot of these from that rental place Uh It's it's so there's no no inserts. This was one classic right major league. I love this movie lots of fun Classic right there. Look, there's uh There's a pedsquire somewhere over here right there. There you are. Look Do you want to know who his That's his man on his thumbnail So Of course, this is no brainer, right? Oh, here's another funny one. This is Oh, that's a good idea brine This is uh, that's a good idea for patreon people This is walley sparks meat walley sparks Meat walley sparks. Yeah, I won't I don't want to mess anything up This was a dark comedy from rodney danger field You never see this on tv much anymore. It's really crude If you love rodney danger field, it's a funny one So that's about gosh, that's about half my collection. We're doing good on time though We'll go a little longer Yeah, grail. I think that's a good that's what that might be the That might be the uh the way to do it Is this cool or the first couple try I'll grab the next stack The next stack here. All right. Here's some fun, right? This is This is that scary movie your dad always told you about or you walked in on him and your granddad watching and they're like get out of the room What are you doing in here? And then like you see this grizzly Grizzly old scary charles bronson pull out the biggest handgun you've ever seen it blowing Look at the goofyest 80s thugs heads brains all over the Like whoa so Definitely one I paid a little more for this one. I paid five for this one Cool artwork though again. Who doesn't love Who doesn't love look there's that there's that Oh, man, look at that pistol. It doesn't even look like I got in that picture Oh, look at that smirk too. You're like, what are you watching granddad? Oh, nothing You better get out of here before things get serious Oh, here's one so Hey Right brandon lee. I wasn't even really aware of this movie either, right? I just knew of him from the crow Uh, but this is another crazy action movie rapid fire. I think I paid a little bit more for this one Yeah, seven minus 30 percent. So I paid about five dollars for this one. It's non-stop action. It is like Bing bang boom. It's like just a straight action movie He literally kicks like half the people's in its ass with his hands It's really funny Uh, not really funny actually really really really serious powers booth What about that for a name powers booth? Everybody knows power booth. Yeah Oh now this For me personally is one that If it's if it's decently priced i'm grabbing not just this one I mean this genre which I consider to be its own genre within 90s movies. Okay Specifically action movies. We're going deeper. We're Subsetting things and I'm talking of course about the van damm collection, right? Hell yeah, I'm buying van damm the only one I never but so this is a Interesting thing the place I bought all these from had everything pretty cheap reasonably priced. Let's see what I paid 499 minus 30 percent for nowhere to run Bam, baby. Give me van damm all day Deluxe widescreen. I'll take it 499 no no problem But they had blood sport and how many different ways can you watch blood sport blood sport? They wanted 60 dollars for blood sport. So that's an example of one. I'm not interested in. I'm not interested to pay 60 dollars for it, baby so Lots of fun Look at the back there Hmm So this is like a whole thing got to get it Got to get that collection like for me. It'd be great to get more van damm and like um Oh chuck Norris I'll just leave it that I don't have any chuck, but I do have Another van damm classic. Oh, and let's throw a little bit of dolph London icing on top of this Universal soldier the first one Classic film Man, this one's good. I mean this one is good. It's so goofy. It's so bad It's so good. That's what it is. No, I don't have that. I'm sorry. That's what I'm saying. I think this is all I think this is all I've got uh for the for the uh Right now on my Van damm collection. Let me make sure that Because while we're on it, let's just stick with it. Oh, we're all coming up to my That's these two can get out of here. That's what we're going to see We're coming up on something. I do have a little bit of a collection on Make sure I get all those in here That's that's that's that's okay Yeah, we're going to end on one collection there and we'll have a couple in the middle. So this is um Kevin they're a mixture of both, but whenever you look at a Laser disc it will specifically tell you the aspect ratio either right on the front if it says widescreen And if not, it will say it always down here in the fine print They'll tell you the thing was filmed in whatever kind of aspect ratio And then it'll usually will tell you the format that it's in and and how much um, whether it's What we've been looking at that we're in Better quality, but not of really any of them were in better quality. So Oh, these were two This is the one right here. I think I've probably paid the most for a single one and uh It is One of like the original cuts Uh And it falls into that same thing Conan Conan the destroyer I paid $15 minus 30 for this bad boy And that this is the second Conan. Okay So it's not the first one, but this is the one I actually watched the most growing up, believe it or not It seemed to be on tv way more um I don't think it was as gory and as like It definitely wasn't as like creepy and cultish as The other one bam The barbarian the og now of course once I got this one Once I got this one. I had to grab this one. I'm still looking for that red sanya. The laser disc. No one has that one No one Do you have it? Tell me This one's so much fun too awesome stuff It's incredible So there's my Conan collection, you know This gives you little low hanging fruit though You can find stuff They find a couple of these and it's just like wow, this is fun, right? You get these big things these things aren't gonna exist anymore, man You're not gonna be able to go even like think about it like this What if you just wanted to like walk into your den? Yeah, Terminator is awesome would be on my list like You just want to go into like your den and have a conversation It doesn't you don't have to watch the movie But what is it's like hey remember this movie? Yeah, look how cool is this thing right? You pull it out you look at it Put it back on the shelf What is best in life, I don't know It's just being able to be uh alive and uh, you know Being grateful I think is amazing That's what I'm trying to work on Here's another nineties classic. This was one The funny thing is this is a movie Uh, this is letterbox, but it's widescreen whatever digital stereo sound Let's see if this one's in better condition no extended play. It's still all extended play So anyway, this was one that when I was growing up when I was growing up I remember going over to the rich kids house and watching this Oh So then see grail you you pushed me you got me I'm uh I'm like I got like I got I just got boomeranged there because I did I totally missed it totally missed the The cone in reference. Anyway, this was the movie that I had to sit there and watch at the rich kids house with the laser displayer when it was new and we watched this and that's What uh, maybe buy this one. It's like a dollar. Yeah, 99 cents sale price But still fun movie kevin bacon, man kevin bacon And this one no bacon action All right, we're gonna get into the last collection, which is my biggest collection But before that this is something I've been trying to collect but you talk about hard to find And I understand Understand nobody wants to get rid of their amazing Amazing collection of cheech and chong laser discs, right? You literally have to be nuts to be like I'm gonna sell my cheech and chong laser discs How cool is the cheech and chong collection? All right, this I'm gonna tell you all the gods to honest truth When I was about 12 years old My parents got a big good shot right there. My parents got divorced 12 13 years old and for some reason My dad let me go down to the video store and he would rent me every Cheech and chong movie every weekend 12 years old. No wonder I like marijuana, right? He was Anyway, this was the first one I saw I absolutely fell in love with it. I loved it. It's hilarious The the lead detective my goodness. He starts smoking and becomes a lizard I didn't know what the hell was going on at 12 years old but I literally Probably learned all that I needed to know about the world from nice dreams and being a You best a pretty messy boy In the 1990s. Yes 90s. So this is uh, like I see this one and It brings back so many great memories like I I just I can't laugh enough of at it I can't think about so many times being a kid watching it and then I think back and I was just like what the hell My dad was crazy man. It was like was he he doesn't even know like what they're referring to I didn't think in half this stuff like he's still kind of square on it But I was Uh, once he let me watch when I was like, hey dad, you know, they made more of those Cheech and Chong movies Yeah, dude. Can I please go rent another one this weekend? And it was like man on repeat, right? On repeat We're finally to the last one Finally to the last bit of the collection here And how should we go through this one because this one's kind of big Let's go through it in like order Order this stuff came out. Okay All this started You can also find these really cool box sets like this And uh, another fun thing is that I do not yeah, this is letter box edition Oh I know they're they're all extended play again but it has The movies the original theatrical trailer And this is the set of the first three Connery uh collection obviously of james bond and I found this first set for eight dollars, right there it is eight dollars Seven ninety nine. I got it for sale again, and I opened it up and I said man, I really like this. This is three movies I think it's It's two discs for some of them. It's like five or six discs, but the cool thing was I opened it And It has this cool little uh art piece like Connery there folds out to a nice Picture of his ladies and what's he doing up there? Oh, that's gold finger up there in the top corner Let's split him in half you get some more lore Some more things in here some more things that you wouldn't normally get from just the standard edition This is the cool insert you get right? So this is the fun thing like you look at this and uh That's like the cool extra bonus items that you can find in these Old school collections of laser discs. So what did I do? I got this first collection I started watching them again. I started from the first one and man, no wonder like this stuff's crazy like anymore that you can know I was I'll tell you which I'll come when I come to it. It's gonna be I'll mention it the most But anyway, you fed the first three bond films. I watched them and then I was like, well, what's going on? What why does this say like The deluxe Connery collection is like doesn't that mean there's got to be another collection because he made More so yes what I find I found the second one Thunderball diamonds are forever and you only live twice. Okay and Same deal here awesome stuff The Connery collection volume two now funny enough I bought this brand new from ebay I found it unopened and I still busted the seal on it. That's the cool thing about this old stuff You're not worried about opening it up and using it because I wanted to watch the movies, but you get the same thing here Only only more info on it It's only this one-sided thing. I don't think there's another one of his base or anything but again, look at all that information from each movie chapters pictures really cool art and Again all of this I'm just going to make sure there's not another thing back here. There is not But this was all brand new sealed. So I knew that there wasn't going to be a problem with any of those movies so as you know History goes on to say these things and That's the end Goodwill. Yeah That's the end of what was supposed to be the Connery run was you only live twice As James Bond However And it was for a single movie so after that I was like what the heck am I doing man? I need to see the next film and then I started researching And uh, actually wait a second. I may be wrong here. This is what happened. Okay. I'm sorry I watched the first two of this Thunderball and diamonds are forever. I think is the diamonds are forever Only live twice Goodness gracious. I can't remember Because I don't think that's right Diamonds are forever was the last one. Goodness gracious. It doesn't even have them right here on the front order, right? So here's the way it goes. You watch the first three Sorry in the order you saw and then you go thunderball You only live twice and diamonds are forever But what they don't tell you on here is they skip a movie right here They skip a movie where Connery said after you only live twice. I'm done, right? I'm done being Bond and this new dude's Bond This new dude George Lazenby Lazenby Anyway, he's in this other He's the new Bond Because there's this on her majesty's secret service her majesty's secret service movie And I never saw this movie. It's from 69 Again, this dude, he did a one-shot. He's like, I'm Bond one movie and that is it and Then he quit and this is that laser disc because I was like, I have to see this in order. I'm not jumping ahead I will tell you telecivoluses in this movie If you know who he is And it's not it's weird because it's I don't even see James Bond on the cover of this I do see an artist rendition of telly right there the bad guy, but they're all shooting at what? I guess the helicopter flying away. This is the weirdest damn James Bond movie I've ever seen in my life You've got to watch it It's it doesn't make any damn sense It is so like there's so many topics that you're just supposed to not talk about now in this movie like There's a lot of times where he's hitting his girlfriend who becomes he gets married in this what? And she ends up getting killed But he hits her and in his father her father's like, oh, you got to be strong with my daughter You need to abuse her It is a weirdest thing movie and then there's this whole scene where he goes to this Telecivoluses is a bad guy Right. He's the evil guy who's pretending. He's he thinks he's heir to the european throne of england heir to the throne of england or something like that and So james bond's going to check on him because he's also got this clinic where he's like testing gene therapies and things and it's again, this is a 60s movie you go to the james goes to the clinic I don't even know how to explain all this stuff. It's nuts. Anyway, he's posing as what I think is supposed to be uh a guy who's pretend he's like his character that he's Pretending to be is a gay guy who's gone to study to see if telecivoluses character is really part of the royal family And james is pretending to be that guy and james goes and just basically Sneaks around this guy's compound and sleeps with all the women and gets busted That's how they're like, we know you weren't him because you were sleeping with all the women and we saw you Sorry, anyway, that probably makes no sense my explanation there, but The weirdest damn james bond movie i've ever seen okay, just just leave it at that So that's kind of where this rounds out to the last connery movie Never say never again. It's funny. We started pretty early on with kim basing her and there she is again Um, I wanted again to finish off the connery collection So I got them all I got them all and the little bonus was that other one and this was one I found and it's probably My biggest deluxe edition and I love watching this one because it actually has pvms in it Actually has pvms in it Why not? This is probably my personal favorite best James bond movie ever made Has a lot to do with probably the game The time period everything This is a deluxe edition. How cool is this? I told people about this cojack, yeah Look at this. So you've got again awesome artwork in here. Just beautiful stuff. Look at this How funny is that picture you dare Q in the gizmos I love it So another really great thing's got a lot of tons of bonus features on here. This is thx laser disc and Let's see It says multi audio Dolby stereo soundtrack It's an extended play though Stended play still so but that's my very last one. So I hope uh I'll be everybody had Fun looking at this collection and thinking about Is this something that you think you actually I don't know want to get into collecting laser discs. I know it's an odd topic But if you really like big bulky media that you can actually use This is this fits right into that Now I will warn you that this grot is a thing But I will also warn you that growing mold on your tape cassettes for vhs is also a thing And vhs quality is really hit or miss and you never can tell But Oh, yeah, that's another great one Well, everybody, thank you so much for joining me today. I had an awesome time. I'm sorry I know I was just the one talking here most of the time I hope everybody enjoyed looking at this. Thank you everybody who shows up to this show Every time it seems to be on and and plays nice and hangs out in the chat. It's awesome Again, I'll say it if If you want to get more more into the community You want to get more involved in things like the accountability group I talked about at the beginning Go consider Checking out the patreon in the link. I'm telling you, you know, we're trying I think we're getting on to something weird here, but it's a good thing Uh, I realized that a community of people working together On certain things is always better than being an individual on your own island You can kind of make yourself crazy If you don't have anybody else to share things with so Um, well, that's what we kind of do behind there In those closed doors. Anyway, everybody have a wonderful day. Thank you all for joining me Make sure you check out the video that comes out tomorrow and it will be a short one. It's eight minutes And I'll see you all next week. It will be monday more back for the regular bunker This lovely time 11 a.m. Eastern standard time ish I'm gonna see if I can get a guest to come on. Okay. And yes everybody in the meantime Do your push-ups do your ddp Or just take a walk Whatever you can make yourself better today. I love all of you