Re: Where to Buy Anime Laserdisc?

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:28:23 -0600, "Bobby Clark"
<bclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>"David A. Miller" <davidm30@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:VJhsf.37407$BZ5.8431@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> "Chris Sobieniak" <Sobieniak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1135690540.733723.19270@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Jessica Bodenbender wrote:
>>>> What's a laserdisk?
>>>
>>> Geez, we have to go through explanations?
>>>
>>> Try here...
>>> http://www.blam1.com/LaserDisc/FAQ/index.htm
>>
>> In my shop (Half Price Books) , we continue to sell used Laser Discs and
>> every so often, a youngster will look at one and ask if it was a huge DVD.
>> I explain to him that this was how a movie was made for home video before
>> DVD was invented. That always seemed to satisfy his curiosity. There is
>> a generation now of age that does not know how electronic entertainment
>> existed prior to their time. Heck, there are people out there who don't
>> know anything about analog turntables and vinyl records, either.
>
>What most people don't know is that Laserdisk is better than most DVD's.

You mean some of the very best of Laserdiscs can look better than your
average DVD, if and only if they were mastered from a good source, the
player is of good quality, and the disc itself isn't already subject
to laser rot or fogging.

>The Laserdisk is like MiniDV, it's a digital representation of the analog
>data. There is no compression,

Mini DV most definately DOES have compression. Granted, DV25 isn't
quite as lossy as MPEG 2 or 4, but it's still compression.

>no data loss like MPEG 2 or MPEG 4 part 10.

LESS data loss.

>We have been told DVD is better and accepted that with out question.

Putting aside the artifacting that can occur with a bad transfer on
DVD, there's the fact that even discount DVD players are now coming
with component, and often DVI or HDMI outputs which put a cleaner
signal to the television than even the best LD player's comb filter
could ever hope to achieve.

>It's
>our loss. Laser disk is the ultimate king of video reproduction.

Laserdiscs WAS the king of video reproduction. Your average DVD in an
average player is more than the equal of most pressed Laserdiscs in
resolution, audio quality, and color reproduction.

>MiniDV is a close second.

If you wanna go down that route, MiniDV isn't really a distribution
format that competes with the like of LD or DVD. You can't buy movies
in MiniDV format, so the comparison isn't really fair.

And ignoring that, there are several professional recording formats
that are equal or superior to MiniDV.

>> And to keep this on-topic, I still have anime laser discs dating back to
>> my earliest efforts at fandom, some of which are out of print and
>> irreplacable.
>
>The player is perhaps the most irreplacable part of the get up. If you have
>one that uses a laser tube or an early laser diode there is a finite life to
>the unit. Good thing is they can be rebuilt in the case of the tube or
>replaced in the case of the diode.

Amen to that. If you're not going down the ebay route, geting a
working player gets increasingly difficult every year. At this point,
getting replacement PARTS gets increasingly difficult every year. :-(

I'm dreading the day those bearings in the drive for my cheapie
Pioneer finally give up the ghost. When this happens, my LD's will be
no more than stiffeners for the Jacket Art. :-(

>
>Bobby
>
>>
>> David
>> Original victim of the Beta/VHS Wars and unreconstructed Laser Disc owner.
--
Nya! Nya! Primula Fthagn!
Abraham Evangelista
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