Ye athat part was funny,the show off Russian guy who was crazy.Ld lasted from 77 basically to 2000 here,and 2001 in Japan.DVD wont even make it near that long as they are changing the format soon again to a higher grade of data storage,so all in all Im happy with how it turned out.That and not everyone was making movies for it,there was control,and for the most part very high quality stuff.Box sets for LD cant be touched by the DVD counterparts.Movies like Hardware,are only bootlegged on DVD,and are real on LD.I love the players,even the ugly industrial ones,because of the heavy build,and I have never had one wear out and die on me.I can not say this fo rdvd players and cd players.
Most ld players from 88 up to now play cds.There are even combi players that do dvd and ld.
LD looks closer to film in alot of cases,where dvd you can tell has been cleaned up digitally,and has digital artifacts in dark areas and soem lite areas.
Depending on your player and tv,what kind ofcomb filters you have,you can achieve near dvd like quality in sharpness without the artifacts,but this will also depend on the ld you are playing,as there are some poorly mastered crap ones.About any THX title is worth having on LD,because of the very close to film look.The THX laserdisc program really did the job on many lds making them look way better then the dvd counterparts,escape from la being one of them.I have well over 100 movies on ld,and maybe 10 dvds on any given day.My ld list grows monthly.For awhile I was goingto have to downsize my collection,because of space,but I have managed to conqure that area of concern.BTW LD holds the crown to the only good widescreen version of Lost Highway.
