How Many of you Still Have Laserdiscs?

[ta131js]

I have only one laserdisc - and I don't have a player.


From a thrift store I ended up getting The Beatles A Hard Day's Night thinking it would be collectible. I spent two minutes looking on eBay. I was wrong.

Oh well - still I think the cover looks good enough on a wall next to Beethoven (the composer, not the dog)

Oh no - I'm not going to get a player and start collecting.
I gotta draw a line somewhere - the cassette is on my side, the 8 track and laserdisc can stay on the other side...

[Lady Ayeka]

Originally Posted by ekmanning5

I have a Zenith player I picked up at a GS last summer. I finally got it hooked up a few months ago. It worked great for a couple of days and then just stopped. Need to get it repaired I guess as I have about a 100 discs.

get yourself a pioneer LDP. they are the best, bar none. look for models such as the LD-S1,LD-S2,CLD-3030,CLD-3070,CLD-91 and CLD-92.

[ducati_EL34]

Originally Posted by Arkay

I also grab most of the "moldy-oldie" classic movies I find, like Casablanca, Gone With the Wind, etc... Also a careful selection of decent movies from the LD era, like the Rambo series, Alien series, Godfather series, Jurassic Parks, etc...but there are a lot of shlocky movies out on the format that I don't like enough to keep. I do have a bunch of old horror movies (British Hammer films, War of the Worlds and Tales from the Crypt episodes and such) and sci-fi movies and TV shows including some Star Trek TV shows, the Prisoner, etc... (geeky, huh?!). The last category I look for are good foreign movies like "Once Were Warriors". I have a few "art films" like Koslowski's Blue, White, Red series (although I don't particularly like them), and some porno stuff (Japanese, Penthouse, Playboy). I don't go out of my

How much would you want for the Blue, White, Red Trilogy? I like these films (white least of all).

[Luckyman]

I have a Pioneer Elite CLD 79, and a small assortment of discs. It was
recently refurbished, and I enjoy it, even if I don't use it too often.

[no1maestro]

My son has several players and several hundred discs; I have about six players,mostly Pioneer, and a couple of hundred discs. We still love most of them. #1 son sold some of his, locally to Rex among others. We are still spreading the word on Laserdiscs!! Came across an estate sale today where they were selling Laserdiscs mixed in with LPs at one dollar a pop!!

[Dynacoman]

I've got about 250 disc's and a couple of midlevel pioneer players.

[blownsi]

I do. I own around 20. I bought them all new at $50 a piece when they were trendy.

[Lady Ayeka]

Originally Posted by shrinkboy

sheesh! you guys are making me think maybe i should...ahh!! NOOOO!! get away from me, satan!!

come on, join the dark side. we'll even give you some of our big-ass CDs...

[Eric H]

I never collected Lasers but I've been starting to pick some up since I found a couple used players in the last year.

The GW here had dozens of them at one time but I only look for stuff not on DVD.

Lately there have been more used players showing up in the thrifts, also a zillion VCRs and late model DVD players, presumably replaced with BluRay or HDMI capable players??

[Ultra-Hog]

Originally Posted by shrinkboy

sheesh! you guys are making me think maybe i should...ahh!! NOOOO!! get away from me, satan!!

I'm with you brother!

I picked up a few LD a while back mostly as a novelty and because the jackets were really nice looking. I thought that it was a dead format like the RCA VideoDisc that used a stylus way back when. Now I read all this and here we go again!

You guys...

[Urchinn]

More than 3000...with a couple dozen players. You can almost see them if you look past the boxes of Selectavision discs. Yeah, I love my laserdiscs and still buy them on Craigslist now and then. Still, there is nothing quite as funky as having friends over and cueing up Star Wars on Selectavision!

[jlindsey86]

Proud Owner of a Pioneer Elite CLD-79! Love that player.

Approx 110 disc's. Great sound and picture, most of my guests get a kick out of it.

Its funny when I happen to show them a THX mastered disc with AC-3 and tell them its from 1995. Most people had no idea you could get picture and sound this good back then.

[Clmrt]

The DD trailers on early discs are always a great suprise.

[Arkay]

Originally Posted by ducati_EL34

How much would you want for the Blue, White, Red Trilogy? I like these films (white least of all).

Haven't thought about it. Give me some time to watch 'em again, and I'll think about selling 'em. I picked them up with a bunch of others in a bulk buy, but I haven't watched them since getting them. I just remember watching those movies years ago (on rental LDs!) and thinking they were over-hyped and disappointing. Assuming I still feel that way, I'll be happy to get some cash for them, but I'd like to watch them once, first, since I don't remember them very well. Also, not sure what shipping would cost, since I live in Hong Kong. I'll check, and get back to you later. Hope that's okay.

[chillwolf]

I don't have an LD player. But I do have an RCA video disc player and about 5 discs. I guess this was the forerunner to the laser disc player. Anyone else have them?