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Old 06-17-11 | 05:56 PM
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Re: Are you still buying laserdiscs?

Originally Posted by JerryKILL
Are there any LD-only titles to get? (ie not on DVD, significant improvement over VHS).
Yes. Like I mentioned earlier, Let It Be, but I have other titles. Besides movies, there's also concerts and animation that have not made it to DVD, at least that I know of. If you do a google search I'm sure you'll find a list.
Old 06-20-11 | 01:25 AM
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I still buy a few. Trying to finish up the Criterion's mostly. I'm down to less than 20 titles. I also pick up Roan titles when I find them cheaply, some music concerts. My wife is into Opera so I pick those up too when I find them cheaply. Still watch about 1LD/week.
Old 06-29-11 | 03:44 PM
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Re: Are you still buying laserdiscs?

I think DVD has a bit of life left I do wonder when DVDs will phase out like LD.
Old 06-29-11 | 10:09 PM
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I still remember watching in horror as a fan had Bruce Campbell sign the disc surface of his blood red Evil Dead II LD.

Yeah, I've got a few left... but I'm way to lazy to get them out of the closet nowadays. Plus watching them on my projector after watching Blu-rays HURTS MY MIND. lol.
Old 06-30-11 | 12:18 PM
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Re: Are you still buying laserdiscs?

Originally Posted by Fok
I think DVD has a bit of life left I do wonder when DVDs will phase out like LD.
When a viable alternative comes along DVD's will phase out. The second hand market in DVD's will continue (just as certain LD's and even select VHS titles still have value to collectors).

DVD's won't hang around like Vinyl. Whatever replaces them will be superior in quality and function. There won't be a hold out contingent that says "Hey man DVD just sounds/looks better" the way people do with Vinyl. But what you will probably see is the hold outs who say, "I'm hanging on to DVD because xyz will NEVER be released on that new format."

I've yet to see a successor to the DVD throne. BluRay just can't get traction. I love Blu but it isn't the massive hit that DVD was. I could see blu ray dying out and a successor format (maybe 2K or 4K) being introduced and even then I dont' think DVD would die. Everyone and their mother switched to DVD because the quality/bennefit/value over VHS was MASSIVE. The next massive switch (if there is one) will be based around not owning any physical media, just downloading or streaming or something. But I'm still not sure you'd see as many people migrate to that technology the way they did to DVD.
Old 07-02-11 | 10:50 AM
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I just purchased The Complete Show Boat set on ebay, so expect a blu ray of all its content and more, in immaculate presentation, to be announced on Monday.
Old 07-02-11 | 11:38 AM
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Re: Are you still buying laserdiscs?

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I've yet to see a successor to the DVD throne. BluRay just can't get traction. I love Blu but it isn't the massive hit that DVD was. I could see blu ray dying out and a successor format (maybe 2K or 4K) being introduced and even then I dont' think DVD would die. Everyone and their mother switched to DVD because the quality/bennefit/value over VHS was MASSIVE. The next massive switch (if there is one) will be based around not owning any physical media, just downloading or streaming or something. But I'm still not sure you'd see as many people migrate to that technology the way they did to DVD.
I agree with this. With Blu-ray still struggling for sales I don't see why they would test out yet another superior format to DVD - at least not as a mainstream physical format.

I feel the trend for most will be the quick, easy and disposible method of downloading/streaming and then deleting it when they get bored.

CD was the last physical format for music as there has been no need in the market for anything better.
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I have never bought any but the other day I chanced upon a street seller in Hong Kong who had endless boxes of them. The majority were Japanese and of adult nature. There were some music-related ones.
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I've been on kind of a laserdisc buying spree lately (maybe it's the lack of a trip to the somewhat local store that still has an attic full of them this year combined with overtime and holiday pay at work also coincidentally putting me in front of a PC with most of the time nothing better to do than speculate laserdiscs), picking up the ET Box Set (beautiful packaging, exclusive documentary, isolated score), The Killer: The Criterion Collection CAV (as a gift for my friend who says it's his favorite movie and had gushed about the cover art), Rush: A Show of Hands (exclusive song Lock and Key), Disneyland Anthology (3 exclusive episodes, 1 that's on a Treasures that I don't see myself buying just to get it for the price it's at), Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Criterion Collection (exclusive supplements), Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, This is Spinal Tap: The Criterion Collection CAV (exclusive supplements), and The Fisher King: The Criterion Collection (exclusive supplements).

I don't know if it's HD or Blu Ray or what because I got these things for prices I never saw them anywhere near the past ten years or so, though maybe I wasn't looking hard enough or in the right places. Whatever happened the laser market seems really dead right now and thank god for that.

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