The Remnants of My Laserdisc Collection - Part 1

[@VegasDannyReturns]

I was still at school when Laserdisc hit UK shores.....they were very much a niche market here and very hard to get hold of in the early 90's. I remember going to a friend's house when i was around 15 and we snuck into his older brother's room to watch my first movie on Laserdisc which was 'Army Of Darkness'...i was blown away!

[@Fedaykin24]

@Zaranyzerak I would add to that as well. The media industry initally expected DVD to be a niche like Laserdisc and actually stated that they would only produce a limited amount of films in that format. When they realised that people were happy buying their complete back catalogue of films the shops were soon filled with DVDs.

[@thejester45]

"The things I do for you people" ha, right on. and Thank You.

[@volkswag12]

same here. i was looking up laserdiscs and this is the first thing i found

[@Condorsat10]

Great video. I own about 135 LD(s) and 5 Laserdisc players. I used to rent them back in the 90's. I normally rent the current technology (like BD today) and purchase the old...when it goes retro (price collapse). Lately I've been buying about 5 LD(s) per month through the mail and have not received any damaged ones...although bent covers are common.

[@bgcorporation]

I honestly don't know much about laserdiscs. It was during my younger age. Kind of odd though because my family were the types of people that enjoyed keeping up with the Jones' but they never got into laserdiscs. The first time I saw a laserdisc was by grandfather. He took out a case about as big as yours and started watching one day. It was really cool. I thought they were records at first.

[@EpicConspiracy]

this is the first zaranyzerak video i ever watched and it lead me to be a youtuber

[@arcyfatale]

I kept a good sum of my Laserdisc..... for the artwork, special features and LD doesn't have copy protection...like the DVD's, VHS, Blu-Ray disc do.....

[@EnduranceProductions]

Love the LD collection so far Z, I too still keep some LDs around the ol man cave. Just viewed Back to the Future III on LD last night, oh good ol' flipper discs!hehe Somehow the flipping time always coincides with me need for the bathroom!?!?!hehehe rock on sir!

[@McEdam]

Love how the intro appears at 5 and half mins in.

[@MrMovieNight]

Awesome Laserdiscs man! Looking forward to the next parts!

[@Jani_Laakso]

cool laserdisc edition of ghostbusters,fucking awesome!

[@Stoudman]

LOL! I can't believe you got the package right in the middle of doing another video. Awesome. I always see random Laserdiscs at Goodwill nowadays for under $5. Once I found Army of Darkness, but yeah....no LD player so why get it? :P Still, I think it's cool we had a home video format that was the size of a damn record. It's funny, cause whenever I find them they're often mixed in with the old records at Goodwill, and I've heard people refer to them as the soundtrack....hah...

[@MasticinaAkicta]

Wooo old stuff :) I like old stuff if it is good. When I began gaming I began on the ..erm PC I belief but then the PS2. Now I have a Nintendo 64, Nintendo Gamecube, Playstation 3-2-1 and a bunch of great old games. So nice.. going back!

[@Sithtroy]

your really pumping out some videos. I like it. I like it alot.

[@dvdmike007]

The main reason to keep the Elite Nightmare on Elm Street is that the Laserdiscs like the Friday the 13th series is the onloy way to get the full uncut unreate versions, So the Nightmare disc is Uncut the Bluray and dvd's are all cut

[@bluto1992]

You are correct, I'm totally jealous of the Ghostbusters set. I never knew my favorite movie ever had a Criterion release. Damn you!!!

[@Jorgie000]

lol that box is awesome, looks like it belongs in Rapture!

[@norwaydvdguy]

nice video mate i love all your stuff and its because of you i started making yt vids so keep up the great work mate :)

[@BlaizeV]

if you havnt discovered the wonderful world of Nostalgia Critic i HIGHLY recommend the review of Howard the Duck , just hysterical! "Thats a Duck Man!" ... Well i recommend every review he has done infact just awesome stuff. Great 1st Part , so many awesome Zaranyzerak Videos , its xmas so so much time to watch them : )

[@maxonfire67]

@puckbond007 The criterions that were on laserdisc and didn't make it too dvd can by found on wikepedia if you go to the criterion page, then go to list of Criterion Collection Laserdisc releases, and if you look on the right if it didn't show the spine number then it didn't get released on dvd.

[@joeyp9524]

I feel ya man, gotta have those bonus features that aren't on DVDs

[@waegiz37]

great case for vinyls and laserdisc, true retro, is it designed for that use or is it just a coincidence those things fit so well in.

[@David315842]

Awsome collection thus far. This may shock you a bit Sean, but I have met someone who actually worked on the opening sequence to Howard the Duck. But he's better known here in his native England as being the creator of a couple of cartoon shows; his name is Mike Jupp and I have his autograph.

[@dvdmike007]

Yes, yes 1000 times yes! this must be my most requested video on youtube lol

[@EpicConspiracy]

Id love to see you just redo them, For some reason i am fascinated with laser discs, i still buy them and watch them today.

[@Ojunix]

Though I never had the Honor to view or play Laserdisc but you have showed me some of the cool stuff they did back in the day & you have showed me that Blu-ray isn't evil yeah sadly I was one of those people but you showed me the light though I don't have a blu-ray player yet but if I'm ever not poor again I might get one or just get a PS3 lol

[@TaliaIGhul]

@Zaranyzerak I know, hence why yours are better. :( The ones that came with the Platinum Series, the ones that I have, are generic white.

[@noelbullard4676]

If laserdisc came back I would definitely buy it if the picture was 4k than definitely

[@bulchit48]

the covers where so cool it's worth keeping the discs just for those

[@LoganJKelly]

omygod its GODZILLA!!!!!!!!=D those were my first scifi movies ever!!!!!!! i would love a review of the godzilla movies

[@dvdmike007]

@Zaranyzerak Us old school laserdisc types need to stick together

[@kassemir]

@Zaranyzerak Ha, well never really expected it to be good, but hey all right 3D was probably good 3D back when it was released.

[@swissmrkc]

dang I'd keep what you have left, a lot of them, i checked ebay and most sell for only a few bucks.

[@EpicConspiracy]

God I want that nightmare on elm street laserdisc. It's hard to find. I ordered one off eBay and it arrived broke unfortunately.

[@dark1ankh]

How common was laser disc rot ? I imagine humidity could have posed a problem.

[@sdgojdfpghj]

Not all Laserdiscs were flippers. I can think of at least one in my collection that was single sided play only, National Geographic's "Secrets Of The Titanic".

[@iluvutube22222]

The last part with all the outtakes i was LMAO the whole time. That's some funny stuff you kept mixing up words :P. Making videos is alot harder than alot of people think.

[@spec10]

hehe like the outtakes :)

[@kassemir]

Ha, Laserdiscs must be heavy, I've never actually seen them in real life, I'm too young I guess :-) But still something kinda cool about big collectable exclusive things.

[@imonit1177]

What was with all the C.R.T. Monitors in 2010. surely a decent sized hdtv would have been affordable back then.

[@zaranyzerak]

Not for me at that time, money was pretty tight back then. I have 3 HDTVs now lol

[@imonit1177]

@@zaranyzerak I just realized how pompous and rude that came across. I apologize.

[@togst]

Nice collection! I bought a couple of days ago a LD player with 100 movies. Almost can't wait to get it! The player (Pioneer CLD-1750) can take both PAL and NTSC movies, so import won't be a problem I hope. Here in Norway LD were never officially released, so everything is import actually. Which also makes it rare to find. My father just laugh at me, saying it is a stupid and useless format. I think it looks interesting. Also nice collectibles now. :-)

[@ArabDragonArtist93]

You should do vids on all of the formats collection? every collection for ea ch format? that would be awesome>/

[@Shakermaker01]

Have you considered getting an LD player to breath some life into your collection? I picked one up on Kijiji for about $80 (10 LD inc.). I have it hooked up to a CRT TV via S-video and the picture is quite impressive. To tell you the truth I still prefer LD over DVD (haven't adopted BR yet). It's more of an "event" when watching an LD and for some reason the sound and picture have a more "filmy" feel to me than DVD. Besides, don't you just love the sound of that big disc spooling up?

[@BlondeJusticeLives]

Been wondering whether to keep or sell on some stuff myself, kinda dificult when you've had certain things for a long time! Hope you enjoyed Christmas anyways, Mr. Z.

[@mattyoz0]

Great videos. Subscribed.

[@nmycon]

What would you say the going rate for laserdiscs is at now (or the last time you were buying/selling)? Last week I came across a number of great titles (Terminator 1 & 2, Goodfellas, The Godfather, The Cable Guy, Dumb and Dumber) but the store wanted $7.99 for each single disc and $14.99 for the doubles. To me, this would seem a little overpriced for collector pricing, but it seems insane to see it at stores like Goodwill or Salvation Army, especially when the records are $1.99 each.

[@kassemir]

I've never seen the 3D sequence from "Freddy's Dead in 3D", I know, sounds weird, but my DVD edition didn't have it, no glasses included. But my question is, did it work, was it convincing good 3D, or more a gimmick?

[@starshipe]

Im like , hurry up and show us the titles all ready! lol

[@BEASTLYMAN96]

Never even heard of laser disc

[@TomGreen99]

Haha, why so many takes of sitting down? Nice collection. I've only encountered an laserdisc once. Back when I was in school they had a science film on one, I was like "wtf is that giant cd?!!!"

[@MGSBigBoss77]

The deleted scene from the CAV special edition of Ghostbusters on Laserdisc thats not on DVD or Blu-ray is the now legendary; "Fort Detmerring scene". The Egon one with Janine IS on the DVD version. didn't i comment on this before, can't seem to locate my old comment here. Anyways love your DVD reviews Zaranyzerak.

[@Blaqkard]

Only reason Id play a dvd,hddvd or bluray is because my laserdisc equivalant is way to valuable. Im not playing Iron Giant or any Jonny Quest and especially Transformers:Five Faces of Darkness thats easily worth 200.00 now cause of a print run of only 614 laserdiscs.

[@MrThatguy224]

@Zaranyzerak could you send me a video of what it looks like i never seen nor ever heard of laser disc if you could that would be great

[@vintagevhstreasures4058]

+Zaranyzerak 6:53 I believe you're referring to The Nightmare Series Encyclopedia disc in the Nightmare On Elm Street DVD set from 1999. That disc actually has an Index where it lets you access the features in a clickable menu if you didn't want to do that maze game (which is called the Labyrinth).

[@BEASTLYMAN96]

Lol I'm one of your younger fans!!

[@volkswag12]

ok so what is your all time favorite laserdisc?

[@mrroque2454]

I wondered why laserdisc wasn't more popular then when u took it out I remembered the size of that thing lol

[@starshipe]

Star Trek 4!

[@davidcallinicos1976]

Did you ever have any Doctor Who laserdiscs?

[@zaranyzerak]

Nope. Always wanted to get the few that were released, but never found them locally or online for a good price. I've had Doctor Who on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray though.

[@volkswag12]

so have you sold all your laserdiscs

[@metal134]

Do I spy Physical Graffiti among those records?

[@starshipe]

This video was shot late in 2010? I was guessing more like end of the 80s judging from his apt! lol

[@MrThatguy224]

@Zaranyzerak how does it look

[@suprhero1]

i has to lower the volume until 1:14 cuss i was afraid my family would think i was watching PORN.

[@JFL1988]

did you ever get a replacement laser disc player for the one that died

[@TaliaIGhul]

Meh your 3D Freddy's Dead glasses look better than the ones that came with the Platinum Series of ANOES DVD collection.

[@MrThatguy224]

do you still watch them?

[@Shakermaker01]

@Zaranyzerak Nice! Hook that bad boy up! With regards to your CAV troubles perhaps KZbin user Watcher3223 could help out. I was having some "spindle slipping" going on with my Pioneer CLD-D503 and he walked me through the fix via messaging. Extremely helpful and knowledgeable guy. Perhaps he may know what's going on with your player.

[@tchomusic]

Do you still have them or already sold everything?

[@tchomusic]

Are you willing to sell anything?

[@tchomusic]

***** Ok, Thanks. Nice collection.

[@volkswag12]

Sorry i didnt mean to sound stupid.

[@unclefister77]

will you accept me as a friend on youtube. would like to send you some videos of my laserdiscs.