LaserDisc Star Trek

[NIUPonyBoy]

Perhaps in their day but now, crap and a little less crapy is still crap. lol

Tomorrow I think I put in SFS, I know I haven't seen that one in at least 5 years.

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

Well SFS is a little bit cleaner of a picture than TWOK. Go figure.

 

[Jptrekker]

I just got a HD TV and hooked my LD player up to it along with the rest of the electronics. Movies are noticeably grainy considering the many more lines of resolution available, but I remember 15 years ago when my laserdiscs were the best format going, much better than tape. But the laserdisc was never designed for HD TV's.

I recently popped in my LD copy of TMP, which up until recently was the only release of the theatrical version of the film. It looked okay on the HD TV.

On a CRT, Laser looks much better than tape.

We had a Star Trek Film Festival in advance of the theatrical release STVI using an early LCD projector and LD versions of the original series movies up through STV, we all thought it was like being at the movies. Those were the days.

(I'm looking forward to the combination of HD projector and Blu Ray of STXI in November! Now THAT will be like being at the movies!)

 

[Grant]

I never had any trouble telling the difference between LD and VHS, believe me.

He's got his story and he's sticking to it.

"LD quality is the same as VHS and all those people for a decade who saw a huge difference are 'miss'-taken."

I love people who just cant't say, 'I was wrong'

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

Really you guys see that much difference with VHS and LD on an HDTV?

I don't.

I see a slight difference but much to go nuts in todays tech.

I'm not arguing LDs place over VHS in their day. Lol. As I don't really care.

Oh btw: I just had my physical today am 20/10 in both eyes and always shoot Expert. Good thing they're LD rendered Ivans. Lol!

 

[Maurice]

I never had any trouble telling the difference between LD and VHS, believe me.

He's got his story and he's sticking to it.

"LD quality is the same as VHS and all those people for a decade who saw a huge difference are 'miss'-taken."

I love people who just cant't say, 'I was wrong'

Dennis didn't say there was no difference. If you are aiming this at a particular person I suggest you use a bullet instead of using buckshot. Spare the innocent bystanders.

---I just love people who post lies and don't even know it.

No offense.

That was plenty offensive.

 

[Grant]

The quality of the picture difference between VHS & LD is great. That's not my opinion or some other posters opinion it's undeniable technical FACT.

At least 3x the resolution. That's not a small difference.

Saying, "my eyes don't see much difference." as if it proves something is idiotic.
What it proves is you're a liar or your eyes ARE bad or you're being obtuse because you don't want to admit you're wrong.

In fact the difference between VHS (240 lines) & LD (420) is far greater than the difference between LD (420 lines) & DVD (480 lines)

My wife who knows nothing about the technical side saw a great difference when we bought out first LD player and could barely see the difference between LD & DVD when we got our first DVD player.

Your comments since the opening post show you uninformed, innacuate and borderline dishonest. That means there is no reason to argue with you about a subject you know little about.
You can have the last words and other folks can say how rude i am and you'll all feel good.

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

Nope, still not seeing a big difference on my HDTV from LD to VHS. I dunno about a CRT as my LD isn't hooked up to one. It's super swell they were so great in their day. This ISN'T their day.

I'm very happy for you that you know their lines or resolution, now go play somewhere else tool.

 

[guardian]

^^Yeah, I'm glad the guy who knew exactly what he was talking about is gone----so the clown who doesn't know sh*t about home video can continue his innane, innaccurate ramblings about a format he obviously knows nothing about.

People paid high prices and bought bulky Laserdiscs for years even though the picture was just about the same as tape.

Better to be a 'tool' than a fool.

How was Nemesis on LD by the way?

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

Sure, where they watching it on HDTV's?

No? They weren't?

Oooops, suck to be you guys arguing about how badass it was back in the day. It isn't now.

Now back to my original reason for the post.

It's cool watching these on a old format, I was happy to find at that little shop. I haven't seen most of these in years and it's nice to reconnect with them.

 

[guardian]

The difference between LD & VHS tape is visible on CRT, on LCD, on Plasma or any TV or HDTV because the resolution of VHS is well below 300 lines and LD is well over 400 lines. If you pretend not to see the difference you are blind or lying or just being an obstinant jerk as the other fella said.

It makes no difference what you are watching it on---there is a huge difference between tape & LD.

You don't want to learn and you don't know what you're talking about. 3 or 4 times the resolution is a massive difference and everybody who ever saw my laserdisc for the first time was blown away by the upgrade from their VHS tapes.

This idiocy of mocking how good it was 'back in day' is not the point at all--it's your bonehead contention that there is no difference 'to your eye.' There's a great difference you just are not seeing it. Your eye apparently is lousy and this thread is nonsense when you don't know what you're talking about from post one to your latest post.

You're mocking a format that is barely better then DVD in resolution (420 vs 480) and then saying you can see hardly any difference between 250 & 420.
If you can't see the difference between 250 & 420 how the crap could you possible see the difference between 420 & 480??

You simply don't know what you talking about. Ramble on 'tool' or 'miss' or whatever put-down you think is acceptable to use on other posters, but probably don't like being called yourself.

And I do have HDTVs---starting in 2001 and i know the huge difference betwen Blu-ray and HD broadcasts and old LD & DVD picture quality. That doesn't mean I can't still see the difference between VHS & LD. i can see the differences between all formats and I'm not a bald eagle just a person who looks and sees and isn't just talking.

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

That's fine I'm not arguing this. This is silly.

I don't see a huge difference, yes I am sure there is, I don't see it. I have very good vision, yet I still don't see it. You do. That's how it is, I am not arguing it's definition etc. I simply don't see a big difference, and as I said I did notice a slight difference at least when I put in the second LD.

I did mis-speak on which LD's I have, I always forget about Insurrection, and I don't even have that one. I have from TWOK to First Contact. That's it. My mistake. I hadn't looked at them since I bought them and I, for some unknown brain fart, thought I had 'all' of them. Whoops. My bad.

At any rate I am not getting into a further pissing match with any fools or tools on your side or my side of the great magical computer box.

Tonight, if I don't go out, I may pop in Voyage Home. If I do, I look forward to it.