[rescue] Hello?

[Dave McGuire]

On April 5, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >   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.

  Don't buy a cheap or old-and-beat-up LD player.  I have over a hundred
LDs, and I watch them all the time.  I have *never* had an alignment
issue, or any other problems for that matter.

>  Otherwise, they are pretty stinking cool.

  Yes.

>  Didja know the video on those things is analog, unlike DVDs.

  Umm, yes, and I can even tell you how they work.  (They also don't
have MPEG compression artifacts. :)) The light that my video projector
squirts out is analog too. ;)

  That's not to say that I'm not a fan of digital *everything*, because
I am.  I just don't like the can't-fast-forward-past-it marketing and
FBI bullshit at the beginning of DVD movies, and I don't like paying
through the nose for them.

  I guess what I'm trying to say is...I don't DISLIKE DVDs...I just
like LDs more, currently.

       -Dave

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