Probably still less than they cost people new, and they are now rare and some extremly hard to aquire. I figure someone got a pretty reasonable deal.

The seller is an administrator over at the Home Theater Forum and also does ISF calibrations.

I have every DTS LD from that list that I want, probably about a third of them. Wouldn't want the other two thirds if they had the best sound in the world.

I have to admit it is cool, but looking through the titles, it seems like alot of schlock. I'm not familiar with LD, so I don't know what kind of selection was out there.
Were there nearly as many releases on LD as DVD?

20,000 titles is probably a reasonable ballpark figure... although I'm sure someone out there has a more exact number. DVD probably has about 3x as many at this point.

In general, by the end of the format, select was pretty reasonable. One of the main differences LD/DVD was that physical production costs of the discs was much, much higher than DVD. So you didn't see a ton of 'special interest' discs with a limited audience and the market was never flooded with public domain titles like it was with VHS/DVD.

Overall, the selection was decent (and certainly fine if you were mainly interested in well-known films). But DVD has definitely surpassed it by a long shot.

There's a complete list of all DTS laserdiscs on this site:

http://www.blamld.com/LaserDisc/dts.htm

The same site also has a list of all the Dolby Digital 5.1 laserdiscs.

Why is DTS on LD allegedly better than DTS on DVD?

bitrate....its not compressed like dvd...

The majority of DTS DVDs use the half bit-rate 754 kb/s format. All DTS laserdiscs used a higher 1235 kb/s rate.

A small number of DVDs use the full bit-rate 1509 kb/s, but that format is basically extinct in Region 1.

man...LD's must blow the roof off with full bit rates!!!!!!

Well, my argument has always been, and always will be, Laserdiscs inherently had a way to get scratched a lot easier because of their weight, spinning inside the player. I had a collection of around 400 LDs back in 1999, and sold all of them for a new DVD player and DVD movies. I was instantly amazed at how my DVDs didn't show their scratches on the screen. I remember specifically the LD version of Basic Instinct. That movie had artifacts due to scratches all over the place in some scenes, which pissed me off because I paid around $50 for that sucker.

Yes, LDs had better image quality, but when you had a bunch of artifacts appear on the screen, that image quality superiority takes a back seat to a DVD with a lower bit rate with consistently having no artifacts.

You mean "LDs had better audio quality"?

I should say SOME LDs had better image quality than their DVD transfers early on, but since then DVD is certainly superior. As to audio quality, well, that's another debate, but theoretically the LD has better audio. I seem to remember some great-sounding audio tracks from my laserdisc collection, but I have to admit, DVD is about as good, and I don't notice much of a difference.

I take it you don't rent very many DVDs? Due to the denser concentration of data on a DVD disc, a scratch is much more harmful. If you've ever gotten a rental DVD with a lot of scratches on it, the video image will break up into pixels and/or the player will refuse to play through sections of the movie. When a laserdisc was scracthed, you might get a brief artifact on screen, but it would always play through.

You may also be mistaking the symptoms of laser rot for something to do with scratches.

What the hell were you doing with your discs that you scratched them all up, anyway?