LaserDisc Collection - Video for those that really care about Audio | Odd Pod

I spun the wheel again and I got Laserdisc! A video format im really interested in. I love the look and feel of Laserdiscs and I really wish I had them when I was a kid in the 90s.
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[@PositivePuppet]

Was never aware of laserdisc until my brother was buying them from eBay about 7 years ago. It's a technology of time that completely passed me by.

[@oddpodshow]

Yeah I never saw it back in the day, very cool to collect now though. Does your brother still have them?

[@CRG]

Never had one back when they were relevant, but I remember seeing one in our college library. The idea of the 12" disk intrigued me and it stuck with me rattling around my head until one day maybe 10 years ago now I found some disks at a car boot sale. Chatting to the seller I soon bought his entire collection and player. Fast forward to today and I've since moved that player and a lot of the disks on but have 2 other players now and more or less all the disks I'd want to own. It's a fascinating format. Despite being on a disk and read by laser, it is an analogue video format. 60 minutes per side for clv or 30 minutes for cav disks. Your dracula side 3 might be cav, constant angular velocity which essentially means one frame per track (per revolution of the disc) allowing you to get a perfect paused still image or even play back in slow motion or reverse all perfectly smooth. Sorry for the long winded comment, I could talk about laserdiscs all day 😅

[@oddpodshow]

Oh interesting, I'll have to check it out when I finally get a player. I do really love older film formats, so interesting. Thanks for watching 😁

[@asmallquest]

I remember going past an electronics shop as a kid and seeing a massive disc in a window. I always thought it was a massive CD. However years later discovered it was showing the size of a laserdisc and advertising them. Never had one though. My uncle had a lot of Betamax tapes including a Beta tape filled with episodes of Bottom

[@oddpodshow]

Nice, weird that I never saw anything on them at all back in the 90s. Thanks for watching, which movie would you watch first out of my collection?

[@Channel84VarietyShow]

Back in 97/98 I visited Cash Converters (one of my fave places at the time) in Watford. They had two large packaging boxes full of Laserdiscs and wanted £50 the lot, I’m so disappointed younger me didn’t have money and buy them!!

[@oddpodshow]

Oh younger you needed to save some money!! Did you ever have a player or know anyone that did

[@MellowGaming]

Wanted a laserdisc player when I was a kid but by the time I had my own money DVDs were coming onto the scene. I do remember a store in town that had them, possibly Our Price. There was rarely a lot of space devoted to them though. Like a couple of drops of discs. I think mostly cos they took up so much more room than VHS which was actually selling well. Part of the reason vinyl faded to CD was simply because stores could stock multiple times the amount of stock in less space. More stock, more sales. Laserdiscs are easily the best of the "failed formats" though. Although that's mostly cos they didn't really fail. They were around for quite a while. Just never became mainstream.

[@oddpodshow]

Yeah, I really like them. Hope I can get a player soon and increase the Collection :)

[@campusluton]

Hadnt seen your vids for a long time Dan so just catching up. Really enjoyable, thanks for doing them.

[@oddpodshow]

Got a few to catch up on then 😁 More vids to come, thanks for watching. Very much appreciated.

[@RetroSegaDev]

Nice collection! Never owned one but knew people in the 00s who had players and collected them.

[@oddpodshow]

Nice, yeah it's weird that I didn't come across anyone with one. Thanks for watching 😁

[@Pjvenom1985]

All hail the mystical wheel! Is there a bring back The Splendids on that Wheel? I sure hope so!😉 Nice video & collection Dan. Fair play.🕹🍀🎵

[@oddpodshow]

Ha ha if my little sisters doll house and dolls were still around I would. If I ever find them its happening 😁

[@ThePrimo80s]

Great video. I really want some of these, especially the Jurassic Park and Star Wars movies. I had never heard of Laser disc until a couple of years ago. Can’t even remember them being sold in Argos.

[@oddpodshow]

Yeah it's weird but I didn't see anything of them at all back in the day...from what I remember anyway. I definitely want to get more soon

[@cainite2030]

Man that is an awesome collection!

[@oddpodshow]

Yeah, really need to get more sometime!

[@shadowinthevoid]

I ended up with a few VCDs in the preDVD days and that really felt like the future watching them on my PC Laserdisc seamed to do a far better job they were crazy expensive. Your right about them being LP sized and having great to see the covers on them.

[@oddpodshow]

I think I have a few vcds somewhere. Yeah they are just really nice to look through and hold. Thanks for watching 😁

[@Ziggy_Jones]

Very cool video! I definitely never saw any growing up in Wales, but as someone with a large record collection it sounds like an ideal rabbit hole somewhere down the line, haha.

[@oddpodshow]

Yeah definitely, like I said in the video it's just vinyl for movies. Really fun to collect. Thanks for watching, hopefully when I get a player I can do a full vid on the laserdisc

[@moviesbye9294]

I have several working players, and quite a few discs too.

[@oddpodshow]

Nice, it's a fun thing to collect for. Hope I get a player soon

[@RetroGamePlayers]

Man laserdisc is the way of the future! Great title, the audio is superb!

[@oddpodshow]

It really is, I hope I can get a player sometime this year for not a crazy price. Thanks for watching, did you have any laserdiscs as a kid?

[@RetroGamePlayers]

@oddpodshow I totally did have one when I was a kid. My dad was into them and worked at audio / video stores back then. Yeah occasionally I can find them at Second Hand stores like goodwill for cheap but it's pretty rare to see them.

[@oddpodshow]

@@RetroGamePlayers ooo nice, did you have a player you had to turn to the other side yourself or an auto one?

[@RetroGamePlayers]

@oddpodshow I've never seen an auto one actually. That seems so futuristic! I've got 4 laserdisc players right now, and pioneer are by the far ones I try to find. There's a model called Elite. Pioneer Elite, and those are really expensive but sought after. I don't have one of those!

[@oddpodshow]

@@RetroGamePlayers 4! I've not even got one yet! 😅 thats cool though

[@80s_guy]

i like yourself didn't know about laser discs until about 10 years ago,i went into a nostalgia shop in york they had loads of them.I loved the covers.I hope you manage to get one, one day Dan it would be awesome to see a video if you did.

[@oddpodshow]

Yeah I really hope I manage to get a player sometime. You'll know when I do as there will be a video soon after ha ha, thanks for watching

[@80s_guy]

@oddpodshow ive watched all your videos twice keep them coming

[@oddpodshow]

@80s_guy very much appreciate that. Murray did the last video so I'm sure I'll be in the next one 😅

[@80s_guy]

I still have last video to watch 😃

[@shockz16]

Pretty decent collection you got there, Dan. A few titles i have myself, i would love that tales from the darkside one though just for that beautiful artwork alone. Its definitely worth saving up for a decent player. Mine was a huge cost but I'm glad i didn't settle on a cheaper player for the reasons you pointed out. I was aware of laserdisc (even the name is cool) back in the day but didn't know anyone who had one nor can i remember ever seeing them for sale here in UK. So until the internet age i just assumed it was an American thing. But it quickly became a grail and many years later something I'm pleased I've invested in whilst i can.

[@oddpodshow]

Yeah I really hope I manage to get a nice one sometime soon. They are a cool and interesting part of video format history

[@BigCalsWorld]

Always just wanted to own Terminator 2 on laserdisc since its my all time fav film, and I wanna own as many versions of it as possible.

[@oddpodshow]

Nice, that's a good goal to go for. Would be cool to see a mini series on your channel trying to get T2 on every video format you can find.

[@BigCalsWorld]

@@oddpodshow such a shame the PAL UMD of T2 is like, the only rare UMD and costs way more than I wanna pay for it lol.

[@oddpodshow]

@@BigCalsWorld oh really? That sucks

[@watchreadplayretro]

A nice collection there! I hope you get a LD player some time but having said that I have kept my LDs but sold the player on. Sadly I found the video quality being not as good as DVD (yet alone superbit DVD or BR) that I just liked them for the huge covers. And so yep, these days I have a few hundred LDs but no player. It's nice to get them out when watch the DVD or digital because as you said, such large artwork etc, it really helps feel that you 'have' the movie. I read that in the states in the early part of the 2000s people couldn't get much for LDs in thrift stores, so for a while many people cut the covers up and made artwork to hang on the wall or maybe a wall of LD front covers! As usual with retro, the prices have gone up these days so haha I wonder if anyone reading this cut out Rambo and now regrets it lol Get yourself a few more Gatefold LDs though. I also find LDs great to store scripts inside, you know the original press release packs they sell sometimes. My fav LD is Lord Of Illusions and Hard Boiled (Cop). For music I have Thomas Dolby (so good him singing and playing 'One of our Submarines' live). My dad had a LD player (but kept it in 'his' spare room and wasn't for the family at all lol Rambo was an early purchase of his, and now I see why). I also have like the most disc rotted disc ever (I think it's Leathal Weapon) so I've kept that to show friends just how bad disc rot can get, kind of a cool thing in a weird way (since like most, Leathal Weapon is so cheap as a movie set on BR now). Oh and an expert might state this below, but I think there was a fact that James Cameron's The Abyss for the longest time was better audio on LD than even the DVD release. Not sure, finally after soooo long waiting, it's out on BR but wow! Thanks again, and yeah, don't feel bad not having a player, it's nice to pick these up cheaply just to hold while you watch a digital stream or DVD, really makes it feel authentic! Sorry for the longwinded comment!

[@oddpodshow]

Thanks for the comment, yeah I think if I do get a player I'll watch movies occasionally for the novelty and piece of history that it is. Wow you have hundreds! Nice, ill look out for more. Will take that advice. Thanks :) well hopefully you may see a player review someday ha ha

[@Bucky749]

One laser disk I think you’d like this is your life Donald Duck the Japanese version has bunch of extra Donald Duck cartoons. And who doesn’t Donald Duck . 🦆

[@oddpodshow]

Yeah that would be awesome

[@Bucky749]

Of course I recently gotten in to old wwf vhs realeses . But I have to pick them up bootleg style on dvd and blu-ray cause I don’t have a working vhs player .

[@oddpodshow]

Yeah I have a few wwf vhs and 1 or 2 dvds too

[@Bucky749]

Did you ever see the live action Casper and Wendy movie ? Or the baby Huey movie ?

[@oddpodshow]

No I only saw the first camper movie, I remember seeing the poster for the 2nd one but never watched it. Not sure what baby huey is

[@Bucky749]

@@oddpodshowbaby Huey is the giant baby duck he was always part of Harvey cartoons he would beat the fox and save the other ducks

[@oddpodshow]

@@Bucky749 oh now that I've looked if up I have seen it