Hundreds of Laser Discs for *FREE*

[sanjay0864]

I have a few hundred Laser Discs that I am willing to give away for free to anyone who may want them. PM me in case you are interested. Do keep in mind that I live in Gurgaon and you would have to arrange to collect them from here.

 

[reju]

I will take them all thank you. I am coming to Gurgaon on Sunday. Shall contact on phone. Thanks.

 

[midnitefreakin]

what kind of stuff is stored on this discs? music, video, movies, documentaries, etc. these discs are pirated or original titles? or mixed? i would be interested in shipping few of it at my cost. so kindly let me know.

thnx

 

[venkatcr]

these discs are pirated or original titles?

Have you seen or heard about a laser disc? LDs as they are called, was the forerunner to CD and DVDs. A LD was 11.81 inches (nearly 12 inches) in diameter and needed special players. They were either 30 minutes playing capacity or 60 minutes playing capacity. Data was written on both sides, and you had to flip the disc to play part 2.

LDs were never pirated. The technology for piracy did not exist those days.

Cheers

 

[midnitefreakin]

Have you seen or heard about a laser disc? LDs as they are called, was the forerunner to CD and DVDs. A LD was 11.81 inches (nearly 12 inches) in diameter and needed special players. They were either 30 minutes playing capacity or 60 minutes playing capacity. Data was written on both sides, and you had to flip the disc to play part 2.

LDs were never pirated. The technology for piracy did not exist those days.

Cheers

my bad...thanx for the info though..

 

[santhosh]

My friend used to have an LD player have watched Terminator 1 on LD and I thought it was awesome.

Think Subhash still has a LD player.

 

[reju]

My trip to Delhi is cancelled. So I will NOT be taking the LDs.

 

[entsurgeon]

Please specify the titles you have.
At least few prominent ones.

 

[Lakozy Electronics]

Hi Sanjay!!

I shall get them picked tomorrow. Thanks for the generous offer. Ashish shall get in touch with you.

Shitij.

 

[Anil kumar]

I still have Onkyo LD player, image quality is awesome.



Anil

 

[sanjay0864]

Sorry for not being able to respond to this thread or the numerous PMs that I have gotten. The reason is that I had taken ill and actually am still a little under the weather. Also, I have been overwhelmed by the number of people who have contacted me for the Laser Discs, thus I am not sure how I want to handle this. I hate having to dissapoint anyone but I also did not wish to make this a complicated task for myself. Therefore I am leaning towards simply just giving the whole collection to the first person who had contacted me. Or maybe I could just split them up in 'few' lots and that way more people would be able to benefit. Just to clarify, I am most certainly not going to get involved in any shipping. Thus, the offer is for those who can personally come and collect the discs from Gurgaon.

PS: I have not checked on the LDs in years and have no idea what condition they are in. The LDs are are packed in several boxes and in fact are lying at three different places, two in Delhi and one in Gurgaon. Therefore I might first consolidate them in one place before I give them away.

 

[sanjay0864]

what kind of stuff is stored on this discs? music, video, movies, documentaries, etc. these discs are pirated or original titles? or mixed? i would be interested in shipping few of it at my cost. so kindly let me know.

thnx

Laser Discs are a 12" optical disc format that had 'digital audio' and 'analog video'. It was the best audio/visual format until DVDs replaced them. In fact, as far as audio goes, LDs are still superior to DVDs.

I have never ever bought a 'pirated' disc in my life. All LDs, DVDs, CDs and BDs that I own are 'originals' only. The very niche and high end consumer market for LDs was totally 'quality' focused and thus a very low demand for 'piracy' did not justify the investments required for manufacturing pirated LDs. In fact, although a couple of pirated Laser Discs did appear in the mid nineties, the exclusivity of the format prevented any mass scale piracy to take over. Every single LD that I own is an original and was sourced from the US. The average price paid for the LDs is Rs. 2200 at a time when the value of Rs. 2200 was equivalent to atleast Rs. 6600 of today. As a matter of fact I also have 'custom duty' papers for the duty poaid on the LDs.

The vast majority of laser discs that I have are of movies, but I do have some music LDs also.

 

[denzong]

i had seen LDs way back in 1996. a friend of mine had a nice huge collection in those days and i remember seeing SPEED on these and it was amazing. infact he had such a huge collection that he started a concept in my hometown called as LP parlour. that was a LD library and watching store. let me also ask him if he still has some left

of lately i was thinking of reviving the experience of watching on LDs but could not find a source for the collection and a decent player

although i would love to start again now.

do let me know if there are any left for me to pick up. i am in delhi the whole of next week so picking is not an issue.

thanks

 

[venkatcr]

I was thinking the following. Instead of these LDs disappearing into someone's personal (and maybe unused collection) can we look at starting a few HFV museums of AV equipment in few cities. The equipment and media in these people will be available to all HFV members to see and enjoy.

I am not sure how feasible this is.

Cheers

 

[midnitefreakin]

I was thinking the following. Instead of these LDs disappearing into someone's personal (and maybe unused collection) can we look at starting a few HFV museums of AV equipment in few cities. The equipment and media in these people will be available to all HFV members to see and enjoy.

I am not sure how feasible this is.

Cheers

I would suggest the same shall be given to a trust worthy music shop, like lakozy ppl r interested in it. Then they shall lend it out at nomial security and rental to keep the game moving.

but then lakozy or like ppl should be ready to take the responsibility.

cheers!

 

[prankey]

^^ That's a great idea of sharing the collection. Sanjay has been MOST generous to offer us these LDs for free, however lets not try to exploit the opportunity and instead try sharing the collection as much feasible.

I remember seeing SPEED and True Lies in Showrooms in my home town and the experience was quite superior like how we feel with BR! Those were the days of VCDs and LDs were like God when they arrived. However I always felt they were not practically feasible as they were extremely expensive and bulky to carry. Also, as Video was written in Analog form, it was vulnerable to variable quality issue like VHS, etc.

LDs carry UNCOMPRESSED Video, hence Video is SUPERIOR to DVDs. Audio as I remember was similar to what we have on DVD (DD and/or DTS - though might be of higher bit-rate than typically what we get in DVDs).

 

[hemantwaghe]

LDs carry UNCOMPRESSED Video,.

Do not think so ,also there were VERY VERY few DTS LDs

I remember comparison of LD and DVd where DVD was far superior..

Expert any views?

 

[Manu]

LDs carry UNCOMPRESSED Video, hence Video is SUPERIOR to DVDs.

I may be wrong here and Sanjay or others can correct me, but IIRC video in LD is encoded in MPEG format (same as VCD) however, the resolution and space available is much more than VCD and so the quality obviously is much better.
That said, DVDs were better with MPEG2 (better compression tech) and even more space.

I remember watching Forrest Gump on LD way back in the early 90s(?) and I was bowled over!

 

[srinisundar]

I was thinking the following. Instead of these LDs disappearing into someone's personal (and maybe unused collection) can we look at starting a few HFV museums of AV equipment in few cities. The equipment and media in these people will be available to all HFV members to see and enjoy.

I am not sure how feasible this is.

Cheers

I dont think except very few anybody will accept here for this to do this... Already I have suggested this number of times and the responses were negative.....All are ready take it for free and keep it in their shelf as another set of junk.

I am ready to dedicate time for this kind of circulation in chennai and I have enough space in my office to keep a lot of stuffs and members in chennai can come at office hours to keep the things circulating...:licklips: anybody ready in chennaihyeah:

 

[prankey]

I may be wrong here and Sanjay or others can correct me, but IIRC video in LD is encoded in MPEG format (same as VCD) however, the resolution and space available is much more than VCD and so the quality obviously is much better.
That said, DVDs were better with MPEG2 (better compression tech) and even more space.

I remember watching Forrest Gump on LD way back in the early 90s(?) and I was bowled over!

Dude MPEG is a DIGITAL VIDEO COMPRESSION FORMAT, it was "composite" NTSC or PAL (interlaced). Progressive DVDs MAY look better, however on complex action scene, LD will still have an upper hand as the image is uncompressed.