Laserdisc-The godfather of ALL consumer optical disc media

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  • honestaquarian
    honestaquarian Posts: 3,204
    I went to the shop today and left with one player. The original one that I've had for more than a decade. The later one that I more recently got on eBay is working better, but there were still noise issues in the picture. Not as bad as they were, but the picture was clearly better on my original player. @jdjohn I'm watching the Eagles disc now.
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  • jdjohn
    jdjohn Posts: 3,169
    Cool...I hope you enjoy it.
    "This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
    "Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
    Regarding collectibles: "It's not who gets it. It's who gets stuck with it." - Jimmy Fallon
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  • honestaquarian
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  • honestaquarian
    honestaquarian Posts: 3,204
    Once he got the transport mechanism on the other player cleaned up (the old lubricant that they used turns into gum when it gets old he said) He took another look at my original player and using the new player as a template, realized whet the issue was with the older player and fixed it! He changed out the power supply as well with the one I brought him a year ago. So the player you see in the pic is the one I’ve had for over a decade. The one I bought recently is still at the shop. I expect I’ll be hearing from him sometime next year.
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  • honestaquarian
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  • honestaquarian
    honestaquarian Posts: 3,204
    edited January 7
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    Just got this for my DVL-91
    It’s NOS (New Old Stock) and so can definitely see a difference between this and the cable I had been using. Which was just an audio cable that I grabbed and used.
    I was using Monster M1000sv S-Video cable out to the Onkyo previously before I got the Marantz.
    Howevah
    The Marantz doesn’t have S-Video ins. Just a couple of Composite video ins.
    Which is fine, because unlike S-VHS VCR’s. Laserdiscs don’t lay down the Chroma (Color) and brightness (black and white) information separately-The reason why S-Video connectors were created. Laserdisc players used their color decoders to separate them out and send them down to your monitor or receiver. Sometimes they were better than the ones in the TV 📺 and sometimes not.
    So maybe you could see a difference between the S-Video and Composite and maybe not, depending on what you were using.
    In this case the Marantz is converting the signal to HDMI and sending it out to the monitor.
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  • honestaquarian
    honestaquarian Posts: 3,204
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    These are my anamorphic widescreen titles (so far)
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,649
    edited January 7
    Be very careful with those. The only RCA ends to ever pull off the outer ground ring of my RCA inputs were just like those made by Monster. They earned the name "death grip" !! They ruined more than one set of RCA inputs, I never used them ever again.
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  • honestaquarian
    honestaquarian Posts: 3,204
    edited January 7
    Ivan
    Yeah they definitely have a tight grip. Then again so do the MIT cables that I use.......................It's not like I'll be switching them out any time soon.
    I'm watching T2 Anamorphic right now. It AMAZES me how many different versions of this movie have been released on home video (and how many I have myself on Laserdisc AND DVD)
    I'm also rediscovering the Jog Dial and Shuttle wheel on the remote control. MAN I wish they would bring these two back again!!!

    Plus there is an old feature that Blu-ray players adopted later in a slightly different form. You can hit last memory and stop the movie and go make dinner or something. When you are ready to start it back up where you left off, just hit last memory and it will go right back to that spot and start playing again. YES a Blu-ray player will remember it automatically now, but Laserdisc had it first!
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,649
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  • honestaquarian
    honestaquarian Posts: 3,204
    If you look at lbbd.com you will see some of the story behind the two movies at the top of the pic.
    Mad Max was apparently a disc mastering error. It wasn’t supposed to be anamorphic, but it definitely is. So I got it cheap and confirmed it is anamorphic. The fugitive was one of only four USA 🇺🇸 releases intentionally mastered in anamorphic.
    Toshiba was giving them away when you purchased one of their widescreen rear projection sets.
    The other three were Unforgiven, Free Willy and Grumpy Old Men. The vast, overwhelming majority of the other anamorphic titles were Japan only.
    Believe it or not there are three different T-2 anamorphic titles available. One was the same as the one I have, but in a black jacket (extremely rare) and the other is a THX certified title that is supposed to be better than the one I have (and also significantly more expensive even used)
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  • honestaquarian
    honestaquarian Posts: 3,204
    edited January 7
    I just remembered the reason why they wanted to make anamorphic squeeze Laserdiscs. A standard letterbox image uses some of the available lines of resolution for the black bars. basically wasted resolution space on the screen. When it is an anamorphic squeeze more of the screen space and resolution is used for the picture and not the black bars.

    They had also proposed using Component video for Laserdisc players.

    Unfortunately such an idea was ahead of it's time for home theater.

    When DVD came along hot on the heals of HDTV and wide screen sets, this idea finally came to see the light of day for the general public INSTEAD of just some geeky enthusiasts into the high end and home theater (which was still kinda in it's infancy)
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  • BlueBirdMusic
    BlueBirdMusic Posts: 2,333
    I have never seen a laserdisc movie.

    I wish I could say otherwise because I have heard a lot of people say they are great.

    I have seen a few collections of them for sale at Goodwill when I was looking for lps a few years ago.
    "Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"

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    You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice.     Jim Butcher




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  • skipshot12
    skipshot12 Posts: 1,189
    Total green person here on laser discs….
    What is the interest in these?
    Picture, sound, other things?
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  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,649
    edited January 8
    skipshot12 wrote: »
    Total green person here on laser discs….
    What is the interest in these?
    Picture, sound, other things?

    Before DVD they were the epitome of video reproduction, the first to actually have AC3 ( Dolby Digital) or DTS surround sound.
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  • honestaquarian
    honestaquarian Posts: 3,204
    @skipshot12
    What @pitdogg2 said above 👆🏾
    Take a little time and scroll through this old ****$ thread and a lot of your questions will likely be answered.
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