Hundreds of Laser Discs for *FREE*

[dillihifi]

I doubt anybody in delhi region is having LD player other than Sanjay and Lakozy.:lol:

Nice One hyeah:hyeah:

 

[denzong]

Like srini I am ready for mumbai operations. I have a dedicated media room in my house and can easily store this. Plus I travel from navi mumbai to andheri so all people can use this service through me.
If there's trust enough for this

 

[shershah]

Like srini I am ready for mumbai operations. I have a dedicated media room in my house and can easily store this. Plus I travel from navi mumbai to andheri so all people can use this service through me.
If there's trust enough for this

i am absolutely and completely at sea!

laserdiscs ARE NOT VINYL.

They are not a legacy that was meant to be handed down to the next generation for preservation.

in retrospect, laserdisc technology was a bridge for the crossover from VHS tape to digital video.

do not forget that those laser devices were meant to have a full life of about five years before they were consigned to digital death.

completely forget about this - sanjay has pointed out the issue about warping.

I find this (forum) interest in this medium completely unwarranted.

will somebody please explain this inordinate interest?

 

[denzong]

I was just trying to help. No worries if someone else does it

 

[no1lives4ever]

Limits on bitrates are more to do with mastering standards which are globally followed than with Dolby or DTS. I believe we can master a 640kbps DD DVDs and they could still run fine on any DVD player (haven't tested though).

The Pink Floyd Pulse DVD that I have has a second 640kbps Dolby Digital track. This is marked somewhat along the lines of "Better quality track which will not play on all players". Essentially anything higher than the 448kbps bitrate is not as per the DVD specs, so not all playes need to support it.

I find this (forum) interest in this medium completely unwarranted.

will somebody please explain this inordinate interest?

How about the *FREE* part of the thread title??

-- no1lives4ever

 

[crashnburn]

Sanjay - This is what you need to do.. Setup a Digital Media Home Network. I would love to guide you but its easier seen here

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/82MmArW2CMatevjKiLbG9VrIrd4wyUgKtZYZmzl3c7E?feat=directlink

Basically, you image all the DVDs into ISOs, dump them onto a big cheap HDD storage on a NAS. Use a Network Media Streamer to Watch them as & when easily as you want.. without having to make physical access.

I had the same issues with physical media storage. Now I have 2x 1TB NAS with moves.. TV series etc.

I'll take one little thing from you.. I want a copy of the ISOs

By the way, I also have a collection of approximately 1900 English DVDs, all 'original' US imports. The DVDs though, are well packed and stored in the basement of a friend's office, all in alphabetical order with a full inventory list. I had packed and stored these discs a little over two years ago and have since never accessed them, let alone use them. Thus, I do need at some point, to figure out what to do with them too. Ofcourse, giving the DVDs away for 'free', is not an option I would consider.

Sanjay - I dont want to physical DVDs. Maybe we can figure out a fast path to getting them imaged. What say we work together?

Like srini I am ready for mumbai operations. I have a dedicated media room in my house and can easily store this. Plus I travel from navi mumbai to andheri so all people can use this service through me.
If there's trust enough for this

Hmm.. Denzong, I like the idea. Anyways shouldnt us media enthus.. have a little Bombay Meetup? I live in Andheri as well.

 

[anujable]

Please confirm if you still have these laser discs.

 

[just4kix]

... 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.

...

Please accept my salute. :clapping:

 

[sanjay0864]

I have given all the Laser Discs to Ashish Kesarwani of Lakozy Electronics (Lajpat Nagar, Delhi).

PS: I do still have the 1900 DVDs (all original US imports) and would like to sell them. I am open to people making an offer for them. I do have a proper list of the titles, for anyone who may be interested.

 

[ashishkesarwani]

Sanjay gave me all his LDs but now I don't have a working player, so if anybody else wants to pick it up from me is more than welcome.

 

[captrajesh]

I do still have the 1900 DVDs

Whoa! Even if one watches 3 movies a day, it would take about 2 yrs to finish them all; are they in watchable condition

 

[sanjay0864]

Sanjay gave me all his LDs but now I don't have a working player, so if anybody else wants to pick it up from me is more than welcome.

Coincidentally I seem to have a few hundred more LDs that have been lying at my friend's place and who had overlooked two trunks full of LDs when he gave your guy the LDs last time. Thus, if anyone is interested, these new found LDs are also available.

PS: I do have the Pioneer CLD-D704 LD player which I might consider selling if there is a worthwhile offer. The player was working fine, the last time I used it, which is approx 9 months ago. The CLD-D704 is the last LD player ever manufactured and it was referred to as the "Holy Grail" of LD players by reviewers back when it was first released for sale.

 

[sanjay0864]

Whoa! Even if one watches 3 movies a day, it would take about 2 yrs to finish them all; are they in watchable condition

IN addition to these 1900 English DVDs, I also had approx. 500 Hindi DVDs, which I sold almost two years ago. As for your question, other than maybe a very small percentage of titles that may have a few issues, all the DVDs are in fine condition. In fact, there maybe quite a few titles that may never have been played even once, or maybe a couple of times at most.

 

[ashishkesarwani]

Coincidentally I seem to have a few hundred more LDs that have been lying at my friend's place and who had overlooked two trunks full of LDs when he gave your guy the LDs last time. Thus, if anyone is interested, these new found LDs are also available.

PS: I do have the Pioneer CLD-D704 LD player which I might consider selling if there is a worthwhile offer. The player was working fine, the last time I used it, which is approx 9 months ago. The CLD-D704 is the last LD player ever manufactured and it was referred to as the "Holy Grail" of LD players by reviewers back when it was first released for sale.

Please let me know your offer for your Pioneer Player, and if its reasonably priced then I might pick it up from you along with the remaining LDs. I had bought one player from our Forum member Subhash but it didn't last the journey from Bangalore to Delhi and when I opened it everything inside was broken. So now I don't want to spend too much on the new player as anyways I have already spent around 3500 in bringing the LDs from Gurgaon/Karol Bagh and a new player, which looks like that its going down the drain.

 

[asvkrishna]

Coincidentally I seem to have a few hundred more LDs that have been lying at my friend's place and who had overlooked two trunks full of LDs when he gave your guy the LDs last time. Thus, if anyone is interested, these new found LDs are also available.

PS: I do have the Pioneer CLD-D704 LD player which I might consider selling if there is a worthwhile offer. The player was working fine, the last time I used it, which is approx 9 months ago. The CLD-D704 is the last LD player ever manufactured and it was referred to as the "Holy Grail" of LD players by reviewers back when it was first released for sale.

mate still u have laser discs?

 

[pathyrvc]

Joining this thread after 3+ years. Did someone pick the LD's ?

Pathy

 

[crashnburn]

IN addition to these 1900 English DVDs, I also had approx. 500 Hindi DVDs, which I sold almost two years ago. As for your question, other than maybe a very small percentage of titles that may have a few issues, all the DVDs are in fine condition. In fact, there maybe quite a few titles that may never have been played even once, or maybe a couple of times at most.

This is my suggestion for us as a community to make a group effort and make the best of the content available on that hardware.

It will be tough for anyone to manage that much hardware let alone keep it maintained over the next few years/ decade.

I am traveling a lot out of the country so I cant put it much time, but this is what I had done..

I had built a mini appliance of sorts that Imaged DVDs into FULL ISOs. Put it in, press a button, and eject out.

In the interest of 'saving' this content.. Get together, split the task, make the ISO images on big Hard drives TBs are cheap now.

Get together and assimilate. I hope I can get a complimentary 'instance' of the assimilated content.

PS: How to watch them? ... XBMC now called Kodi. Been using it for a decade to watch ISOs.