DVD Vs. Laserdisc ?
06-10-05, 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by chente
I did that with my Aliens and it was pretty cool! The sound on the THX Aliens LD is much richer than the DVD from the Quadrilogy. The problem came at the side flip when I had to spend time synching them again. It was a pretty fun experiment, though and I have used it to demo the differences between DVD's and LD's to some friends.
Along similar lines, I was considering buying the Mission Impossible DVD. But I had aquired the LD in a large lot so I decided to just watch it one day and see if I "really" needed the DVD. This is an AC-3 release on LD and though the visual was a little rough, it was not overly distracting (and thats on a 57 inch 16x9 HDTV). The sound though blew me away, I got into LD after DVD came out so I really never thought much about enjoying the LD more than the DVD - I was mainly getting titles not out on DVD. Needless to say I did not bother buying the DVD. I would put that LD's sound up against any DVD in my collection (yes I have big collection with lots of action movies and DTS). The sound was so enthralling to me I almost watched the movie again and I watched all the credits just to hear the music. Needless to say, I actually find myself watching LD maybe once every week of so, usually in bunches since I have to change several settings on the HT.
