How collectable/rare are they? I've had an offer to buy them all for £160. Is that good?
Laserdisc Query
- Thread starter Methuselah Flint
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Looks to be good going by Ebay. Do you have them yourself?
How old are the laser discs? Nineties?
JB
JB
Same period as the 2-episode tapes I'd imagine...
Not the 1980 ones. I think they are from the single-episode 1985-88 period.
Well, you can find them individually at various prices. I have the whole series (with multiple duplicates) that I collected over the course of a few years. I like them because the sound mix is more accurate than the DVDs and blu-rays. However, there's a lot of rot and many episodes have degraded pictures because of it. If you want them just to collect them, that's not a bad price for the lot. If you want them to watch, with todays TVs, they're not much better than VHS picture wise. And good luck finding a decent player if you don't have one. They stopped making them in years ago. I got one of the last Pioneers and it's crapping out now...
Yeah I just want them to collect.
It looks like the Japanese pictures for each episode, differs to the UK/US release.
Incidentally... Early releases of the Menagerie (not laserdisc I think) made it feature length. Do you know what was cut, and if they removed credits etc?
It looks like the Japanese pictures for each episode, differs to the UK/US release.
Incidentally... Early releases of the Menagerie (not laserdisc I think) made it feature length. Do you know what was cut, and if they removed credits etc?
I recall watching the “feature-length” version on VHS back in the day. All they did was remove the end credits from part I, and the teaser and titles from part II.
I didn't know about the laser rot on these. I recall you copied some of your LDs to DVD-R; I hope you got to them in time. You could also make mp3's of the LD audio.
Regarding the player, I can't access youtube here at work (firewall), but there's a guy in England who demonstrates repairing them. But whatever you do, it's going to be a temporary reprieve.
That reminds me of, way back, when I bought the only release of The Six Million Dollar Man you could get in America, namely "The Bionic Woman" Parts 1 and 2 on VHS. I was thrilled to get my favorite episode of the series, but along with the end credits to Part 1, they cut out the "top of Act 1" title and credits from part 2, and that meant losing part of a fantastic Oliver Nelson cue and some dialogue. The music was half the point, and they butchered it!
It's good to have both series complete on DVD now.
LaserDisc Rot also depends on storage. I have picken up the Japanese LD boxes, which seems to age better. They also have the original mono mix in digital form plus the TV Special : from one generation to the next.
That reminds me of, way back, when I bought the only release of The Six Million Dollar Man you could get in America, namely "The Bionic Woman" Parts 1 and 2 on VHS. I was thrilled to get my favorite episode of the series, but along with the end credits to Part 1, they cut out the "top of Act 1" title and credits from part 2, and that meant losing part of a fantastic Oliver Nelson cue and some dialogue. The music was half the point, and they butchered it!
It's good to have both series complete on DVD now.
The UK released seasons one and two of The Six Million Dollar Man years before anyone else but had The Bionic Woman on there as a TV Movie length episode which was really annoying! Eventually I bought the Region one US versions which were a lot cheaper than the new UK versions by Medium Rare!
JB
That's interesting about the laser rot. What's the scientific explanation for that?
It's caused by an error/defect in the manufacturing process.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
An analogous problem: incorrectly manufactured audio tape suffers from sticky-shed syndrome:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky-shed_syndrome
There's some luck involved when you buy your media products.
Oh, I see. Thanks. Intriguing that the much-maligned CDs/DVDs seem comparatively quite hardy.
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