Latest Retro Purchases (Games or Hardware)

Shadowrunner · July 21, 2015, 22:06:34 PM

Quote from: "Lorfarius"I did pick up one of these last week:

Cool! What's the picture quality like on laser discs, somewhere between a VHS and a DVD?

Lorfarius · July 21, 2015, 22:10:29 PM

Depends on the player but just a bit below DVD. The best part is the artwork and foldouts you get, they practically write small novels on some of them for extra features!

TrekMD · July 21, 2015, 22:16:30 PM

That looks awesome!Â And the DS9 artwork on that looks fantastic!

Lorfarius · July 21, 2015, 22:31:21 PM

I'm half tempted to stick it on the wall it looks that good!

WiggyDiggyPoo · July 21, 2015, 22:43:15 PM

Laserdisc - The LP of the video worldÂ :113:

Lorfarius · July 21, 2015, 22:45:37 PM

Been getting a few LDs through the post, fav so far has been the original Star Wars. The boxset looks amazing with a neat silver trim:

Sadly Han doesn't shoot first

TrekMD · July 21, 2015, 22:47:30 PM

That's awesome!Â What version of the movies does that have?Â Just how changed from the originals?Â I keep hoping Disney will release cleaned up versions of the originals that are just that.Â Cleaned up.

Lorfarius · July 21, 2015, 22:52:38 PM

The ones Lucas botched with his crappy re-special effects

Jabba tail stepping etc.

TrekMD · July 21, 2015, 22:59:34 PM

Well, even those versions have been further modified on future releases!Â

llayboy · July 21, 2015, 23:01:25 PM

Aww would love to get a laserdisc player. How much did that set you back?

Lorfarius · July 21, 2015, 23:05:15 PM

The player was £100 but you can pay up to £200 if you go for a high end one.Â Only worth paying out if it's PAL/NTSC these days though.

llayboy · July 21, 2015, 23:06:00 PM

Yea definitely no point in getting a PAL only player. I bet the NTSC library is bigger anyways

Lorfarius · July 21, 2015, 23:08:17 PM

Not sure but you can get them so easily over here, films usually cost a coupe of quid.

kidpanda · July 21, 2015, 23:42:14 PM

Quote from: "Shadowrunner"
Quote from: "Lorfarius"I did pick up one of these last week:

Cool! What's the picture quality like on laser discs, somewhere between a VHS and a DVD?

Most of the audio is uncompressed which for it's time was stunning. You know when you watch a DVD and an explosion bottoms out or sounds crunched? Yea on a LD it's full band spectrum, nowadays Blu Rays have the sme uncompressed audio, but for the longest LD was the way to go.

TrekMD · July 22, 2015, 01:07:42 AM

Here are my arrivals for this past week. As you can see, I just received the latest Jaguar homebrew by Der Luchs.

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