Laserdisc Talk: Any LDs worth anything anymore?
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Laserdisc Talk: Any LDs worth anything anymore?
I'm thinking of parting with the 25 or so laserdiscs I have left along with my RCA player. Nothing particularly interesting except for maybe the Criterion Othello set. Is Ebay the only good place to look for current prices?
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Pretty much, except for the few of us looneys that post here and still collect them.
Care to PM me a list and I'll let you know if there's anything I could take off your hands?
Care to PM me a list and I'll let you know if there's anything I could take off your hands?
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Up until about a month ago Robot Wars, still Robot Wars was released kind of innocuously in the Full Moon Classics 2 Box Set, you might be able to capitalize on that though...
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Only the rarest ones will be worth anything. On a lark, a few years ago I listed about 500 of my laserdiscs to Big Emma for a quote. They told me they'd give me $500 for them all . I kept them.
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In my LD collection, the Criterion Bond LDs with the "banned" commentaries are the only ones likely to ever be worth anything, but I rather like the (first ever!) commentary on the CC King Kong and the Scorsese commentary on CC Taxi Driver.
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After Universal released Colossus: The Forbin Project on dvd in fullscreen I looked at the widescreen LD on ebay. Was going for around $50-60 at that time. Don't know about now.
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Giorgio Moroder's edition of "Metropolis" - no dvd -music rights issue?
Extended edition of John Wayne's "The Alamo" -short version on dvd
Extended edition of "Hawaii" -short version on dvd
Musical version of "Lost Horizon"
Extended edition of John Wayne's "The Alamo" -short version on dvd
Extended edition of "Hawaii" -short version on dvd
Musical version of "Lost Horizon"
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Originally Posted by BrandonJF
I remember when I got $350 for my Frighteners Signature Collection set.... ah... those were the days... I'm sure that's worthless now that the content has made it's way to DVD.
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I have a DVL-700 player with about 400 LDs. 2 copies of the "Rescuers" with the naked scenes, CAV of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit," signed CAV copy of "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" and "War of the Worlds."
Almost all the serials, most sealed and quite a few still sealed.
Almost all the serials, most sealed and quite a few still sealed.
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Originally Posted by Dr. Forrester
In my LD collection, the Criterion Bond LDs with the "banned" commentaries are the only ones likely to ever be worth anything, but I rather like the (first ever!) commentary on the CC King Kong and the Scorsese commentary on CC Taxi Driver.
http://www.criterionforum.org/forum/...ghlight=#13899
I still have the following CC LDs with unique commentaries:
Boyz N The Hood
Carrie
Casablanca
Crash (Cronenberg)
Dr. No
From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
Graduate, The
Great Escape, The
High Noon
It's a Wonderful Life
King Kong
Last Picture Show, The
Menace II Society
Midnight Cowboy
Player, The
Prince of Tides, The (the initial release; only ca. 200 exist)
Princess Bride, The
Se7en
She's Gotta Have It
Shine
Taxi Driver
Tootsie
Wizard of Oz, The
I transfered the Bond LD commentaries (Dr. No, FRWL, Goldfinger) to DVD-R with the official anamorphic SE DVD transfers. It took some time, but ultimately, it was worthwhile.
TLK
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I should have sold my Star Wars LDs before they finally came out with the original versions on DVD. I'm trying to time my sale of my Japanese import of "Song of the South" for just before it ever comes out on DVD, if it ever does.
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Originally Posted by big e
Since we have new special editions of Taxi Driver and Bram Stoker's Dracula, are the criterion Laserdiscs of said films still worth getting?
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Originally Posted by big e
Since we have new special editions of Taxi Driver and Bram Stoker's Dracula, are the criterion Laserdiscs of said films still worth getting?
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I'd like to find the Laserdiscs of the American Film Institute Tributes to Bette Davis/Jimmy Cagney/Hitchcock et al - these do not seem to have made it to DVD as yet for some reason?
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I sold a box set called The Complete Tex Avery for four times what it cost me about a couple of years ago. Might have just been lucky, but there's an awful lot of stuff in that set that still hasn't been released on DVD.
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Originally Posted by big e
CED only lasted from 81-86. Their Laserdisc players were probably made after that.