Pity me. I still have a HLD-X9 laserdisc player.

laserdisc said:

I’ve seen Harmy’s v2.5 anh and also Esb 2.0. Waiting for rotj 2.0 in a few weeks?

Today I watched rotj definitive collection laserdisc on my hldx9. It’s currently hooked up to a very old crt tv though.

I couldn’t enjoy it because of the lack of detail which Harmy has now spoiled us with.

I paid a lot for it, so I’m not about to get rid of it.

I just wondered if anybody uses laserdisc anymore and has used it with e.g. an upscaler on a hdtv. How would it hold up to harmy’s efforts?

The Wednesday night before the release of TFA, my wife and I hosted a Classic Original Trilogy movie night for several friends. My Definitive Collection LaserDisc set, played on my Pioneer CLD-D702 LD player and displayed on my 55" Panasonic VT50 plasma TV, looked fuzzy and scaled poorly to fit the width of the 16:9 screen. BUT it was an awesome experience nonetheless. Glad I’ve kept the player and box set all these years (Day One purchase for me). Still hoping a proper restoration such as the Legacy project is released one day soon by Disney/Lucasfilm.

Comparing a laserdisk with Harmy’s isn’t fair - Harmy’s is based on the blu-ray. A more important comparison would be to side-by-side your laserdisk with the GOUT… or rather, with the best GOUT-based restorations.

LaserDiscs played on a top-end player like the HLD-X0, HLD-X9, LD-S9 or CLD-R7G and then run through a video scaler/processor like the DVDO iScan VP50, VP50PRO or Duo and viewed on an LCD/LED/Plasma TV/Display will give you the very best picture quality possible from the LaserDisc format. This however doesn’t change the fact that what you’re watching is a LaserDisc.

Well, I recently looked into getting a player and find that most of the time, they still go for a lot on ebay, especially the high end ones.
If you search youtube, you can find a lot of people who talk about their laserdisc collection. I suspect lots of people buy the discs because they are pretty affordable now and a cool experience. I mean wasn’t the Definitive Collection $250 USD back then?

If you’re interested in doing captures, it might be useful to get really high quality rips of the 1993/1995 Star Wars extras. Or THX 1138 if someone hasn’t done that already on an X9. Or anything else that was exclusive to laserdisc.

The JSC and Technidisc LDs are still the best official release of the OT.
LD can be beautiful, but you have to keep in mind its technological limitations. Of course I got sucked in and now have three players and nearly 300 discs. It’s an addiction.

what/when was the technidisc release?

Knightmessenger said:

what/when was the technidisc release?

When fox did the quiet reissue of the SWE disc for Star Wars just before the definitive collection came out, they had the different producers repress a corrected version of the shifting aspect ratio transfer. These copies can be designated by having the later Fox logo on the small box on the front center lower edge of the front cover instead of the older copies with cbs/fox. Now, if you can find the copy pressed at Technidisc (only identified by disc inner ring codes) you see that they somehow did their own transfer from a different source. There is no information on this other than it was first seen here and later transferred by some. Easily the best transfer of them all, but only for the first film.