OFFERING: for parts/not working Pioneer DVL-V888 Laserdisc player

[ProfessorProfessorson]

Something you are probably overlooking Zeta is the cost of living here is much lower then it is in like say California. People here had, and still have, quite a bit of disposable income, so specialty movie stores did well here, like Hastings or Suncoast. Every Suncoast we had usually had a large assortment of LD collectors working there or frequenting it. Seems like one of the Suncoast employees had Song of the South even.

I'm surprised anyone knows about Hastings and Suncoast. I used to work at Hastings back in the day in Eastern Washington. Pretty crazy even during the early 2000s they had Laserdisc stuff. Used mind you, but still pretty neat. I also recall Hastings selling those Laserdisc and DVD player combos for quite a bit of dough. Anyway, not to further derail this thread I would be interested in the parts, but we are in the process of moving and my wife would kill me if I brought in some more vintage electronics.

Yeah I wish I could remember if that guy had the JP or Hong Kong LD of Song of the South. He told me which and that it wasn't released here, it was just so long ago. I actually forgot the name of the thing for awhile there, I just remembered it was supposed to be a super racist Disney movie from what he said.

I had never even heard of it before he told me about it, and its not something I thought about much back then. I have yet to see it, but he implied it was a pretty racist piece of work, so not anything I would ever care to watch. This guy was a manager at Suncoast. He had a lot of imported ld's. Most of the Suncoast employees I talked to were into anime, so that was another reason why they collected LD.

Speaking of an awesome LD set, the Tron and Toy Story box sets. I dont really care for Disney at all, but those two boxsets were really good.

[turboswimbz]

Something you are probably overlooking Zeta is the cost of living here is much lower then it is in like say California. People here had, and still have, quite a bit of disposable income, so specialty movie stores did well here, like Hastings or Suncoast. Every Suncoast we had usually had a large assortment of LD collectors working there or frequenting it. Seems like one of the Suncoast employees had Song of the South even.

I'm surprised anyone knows about Hastings and Suncoast.

We still have a couple of Suncoast stores here.  although they are not quite what they once were.

[SignOfZeta]

Having a Suncoast is one thing, having 12 of them, and a Dave's Laser or a Ken Krane's or Mikado or Laser Perceptions, and thousands of guys actually buying that stuff constantly, is another. It's not a matter of the movies existing in your state, it's a matter of having 60 copies of Yojimbo in a 2 mile radius, making them all worthless. That's the kind of opourtunity I'm talking about. Then you've got it made.

When LD was really kicking ass, most of the hardcore collectors were middle class guys in their 50s. Many of them have since passed on and those collections are like gold. Nothing that has "eBay worth" usually, but those are the dudes with all the Criterion/Janus stuff, the classical/opera stuff, and the most enduring movies in general. Sure, they still bought all that 007 crap, but they also bought Zardoz, and that's what makes their collections the coolest.

Funny thing: Camelot Music stocked Song of the South when it got the early 90s reprint. It was like $68, IIRC. My issue with the movie isn't that it's racist, but that it's shrill and annoying and almost totally uninteresting. I'm not a giant Disney fan, but they've done much better.

[xelement5x]

Nice! I grew up and worked in part of the Musicland family so Suncoast, Sam Goody, and Media Play are a large part of my formative years.  I remember seeing anime LDs back then and even on clearance they were like $10 which was too much for my high school eyes when we could just swap tapes and dub them, I regret not grabbing some but oh well how would I have known I'd enjoy LD later.

Like Zeta said you can get some pretty interesting collections for cheap if you are on watch.   I got the old collection of a film critic and it's full of very interesting releases.  Most of them are "dollar wise" not worth but, but interesting to watch.  Others, like the special edition of "The Alamo" are pretty sought after since they've never been released in their entirety on another format.  Sadly there's too many titles for me to keep in my home so I'll probably dump a large portion of them in the near future.

[bob]

This one i got came with the disney movie "Gus" with Don Knots.