[rescue] Hello?

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Fri Apr 5 12:15:48 CST 2002


On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 01:26:46AM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On April 5, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> > Has someone been watching Hunt for the Red October recently? :-)
> 
>   :-)
> 
> > I watched is a month ago, on laserdisc...... never had one until 
> > recently, picked it up used at Goodwill, the player that is, the disc 
> > was from Ebay, for $1 :-)
> 
>   Laserdiscs kick ass.  Decent audio quality, *excelltn* video quality,
> very reliable, no suit-profit-protection bullshit.  I have a metric
> buttload of movies on laserdisc.  Pretty much everything is available,
> *cheap*, because the Windows-user-types seem to think that now that
> DVDs are available, laserdiscs will somehow magically no longer
> play. :)

Don't you have a lot of trouble with them going out of alignment?  The people
I know locally with laser discs gripe about that all the time.  Otherwise, 
they are pretty stinking cool.  Didja know the video on those things is 
analog, unlike DVDs.

--
Joshua D. Boyd



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