Tom Cruise - movie star and laserdisc geek

Danny Tse
Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
edited June 2014 in The Clubhouse
Tom was promoting his latest movie on "The Tonight Show" last night and discussed his fondness for the laserdisc format. This may just be the format's biggest mainstream media exposure. As Tom mentioned to Jimmy Fallon, "Be careful with the fingerprints".....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDyeJwSTA3s#t=193
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  • xjghost
    xjghost Posts: 1,105
    edited June 2014
    Hell yea! I love my LD's!
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited June 2014
    In the 80's I had a HUGE Pioneer (LD1100?? I think) Laser disk player. When I was moving out of the barracks in Germany, I dropped it down a flight of stairs. It didn't survive.
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,277
    edited June 2014
    steveinaz wrote: »
    In the 80's I had a HUGE Pioneer (LD1100?? I think) Laser disk player. When I was moving out of the barracks in Germany, I dropped it down a flight of stairs. It didn't survive.

    Technically, could it be defined as a casualty of war?
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  • jwhitakr
    jwhitakr Posts: 568
    edited June 2014
    Eh, I wouldn't put much stock in anything Tom Cruise has to say. I'm not old enough to know whether LD was all that impressive as a format ... but let's just say he's a talented actor and that is the only thing he has going for him.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited June 2014
    For you LP guys (vinyl, that is). What about the aside on Vinyl by both Cruise and Fallon! That should have made a few here "salivate"! lol They both gave vinyl two thumbs up as "the format" for music.

    Having said that, I'm not really a vinyl guy though I do have some and a couple of middling tables from the early '80s.

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  • Jhayman
    Jhayman Posts: 1,548
    edited June 2014
    jwhitakr wrote: »
    Eh, I wouldn't put much stock in anything Tom Cruise has to say. I'm not old enough to know whether LD was all that impressive as a format ... but let's just say he's a talented actor and that is the only thing he has going for him.

    Hey don't put Tom Cruise down he's an awesome guy and I don't care what comes out if his mouth as long as it's " I feel the need, The need for Speed"
    Oblivion was Awesome, what a mind .uck and the making of it was equally Awesome..
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited June 2014
    Didn't LD actually have lossless audio, vs the compressed audio that DVD ended up with?
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,464
    edited June 2014
    Jhayman wrote: »
    Hey don't put Tom Cruise down he's an awesome guy and I don't care what comes out if his mouth as long as it's " I feel the need, The need for Speed"
    Oblivion was Awesome, what a mind .uck and the making of it was equally Awesome..
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  • rooftop59
    rooftop59 Posts: 8,121
    edited June 2014
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    Didn't LD actually have lossless audio, vs the compressed audio that DVD ended up with?

    I remember a thread here a couple years ago where some guys compared LDS to DVDs and yes they said generally the audio on the LDs was better, but I can't remember if it was uncompressed.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited June 2014
    AsSiMiLaTeD wrote: »
    Didn't LD actually have lossless audio, vs the compressed audio that DVD ended up with?

    I believe so, although the last of the LD players did incorporate Dolby Digital outputs. Some of the LD players are great as CD players/transports.

    Btw, the celebrity who was a big LD supporter was the late Robert Urich (SWAT, Vega$, Spencer: For Hire, etc.)....he had his LD collection (vault?) showcased in, I believe, "Home Theater Interiors" magazine. Very impressive.
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