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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantSumoBoy
Registered: December 3, 2007
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A Co-worker of mine gave me Batman & Batman Returns on LaserDisc. Unfortunately, I do not have a player for them.

Does anyone still have old Laserdiscs hanging about? just curious.
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Registered: February 23, 2009
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I still have some LD's lying around, but my player has died. I'm holding onto them for sentimental reasons for the time being but might sell them later down the line.
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile Registrantb00bie
Registered: 12/16/2001
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I still have a working Laserdisc player and a bunch of discs including a few Japanese Disney discs that I drag out and play every once in a while.
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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My LD/DVD combi player died on me last year.
Still have a Pioneer LD player hooked on to my pc.., i'm still planning to copy disc with movies who don't get to dvd on my pc and burn them on dvd-r.
Unfortunaly a few disc have laser rot and don't play anymore. 
Still a couple of 50 LD's to go....
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantTheDarkKnight
Registered: March 14, 2007
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I still have "The Alamo" Laser Disc, that's the only one I kept. I don't have a player anymore so I don't even know if it still plays but I had to keep it since it's the extended cut of the movie.
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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I am one of the ones that never even seen a laser disc... I went directly from VHS to DVD.
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Like Addicted, I have never seen a LD other than in pictures. I too went from VHS to DVD.
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I went laser when dvd came out but was doing lots of FS barebones releases, so I grabbed a player cheap on ebay and picked up a few discs over the years.

Last year my player finally died, so now I still have a couple of old lasers but most have better dvds now. Still, the laser covers make great wall art, esp. ones with cool alternate art like Escape from New York and Criterion's The Killer. Oh yeah, Tales from the Hood with it's gold and silver foil highlights looks sharp as hell too.

Thankfully I ripped everything to dvd I needed to before the death. There's a couple litttle things I never got, like the different deleted scenes on The Howling or the Ebert review for Halloween from the Criterion ld, but those are short features I can probably find online anyway. If not, my buddy still has a working player and will rip stuff for me if I ask.
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Registered: March 13, 2007
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I've still got a copy of The Lion King still in shrinkwrap ....  but when the dvd finally came out the price of this Laser Disc dropped dramatically to maybe ... 99 cents or less...     
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Quoting bigdaddyhorse:
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Thankfully I ripped everything to dvd I needed to before the death. There's a couple litttle things I never got, like the different deleted scenes on The Howling or the Ebert review for Halloween from the Criterion ld, but those are short features I can probably find online anyway. If not, my buddy still has a working player and will rip stuff for me if I ask.


I had a laser disc of Criterion's King Kong with Richard Haver's commentary.. then the day came back in early 2003 when I had a buyer for my LD player and most of my laser discs if not all., and that also included this
RARE Criterion title...
  what to do what to do??.., I finally decided to put some scotch-tape over the erase tab on a Turner Classic VHS title of King Kong (1933) that was colorized ( I know I know,, )  but I wanted to keep the colorized in Dolby Hifi stereo , and erased/replaced the analog mono linear tracks ,- dubbed the running Haver commentary to 'sync up' with the hi-fi audio soundtrack of this VHS, ,and viola I now have various versions of King Kong from my 2005 DVD.. to this colorized VHS dolby stereo ( Max Steiner's score) as well as SAP audio of the now  defunct rare out of print Haver's commentary..
( Ray Harryhausen, & Ken Ralston did the  audio commentary on the DVD .. no comparison to Ronald Haver
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Terry
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