DuracellEnergizer said:
SilverWook said:
If it was possible to put the new movies out on Laserdisc I’d probably buy them. 😉
It’d be neat if some new movies got limited LaserDisc releases every now and then, but then I suppose the technological infrastructure doesn’t exist anymore.
I had read the last LD production plant in the U.S. was shuttered after a run of Dragon’s Lair discs for arcade game collectors in 2002. Recordable LD tech does exist, but isn’t compatible with the consumer format AFAIK. A dedicated Regular Show fan wanted to make a disc as a gift to the show’s creators, (who did a hilarious episode revolving around a rare film on an LD and efforts to find a player to watch it) but obviously hit a dead end.
It might actually be easier for Pioneer to reverse engineer a new player than to bring back the disc manufacturing technology itself.
The resurgence in Vinyl is stressing one of the few (if not the only) pressing plants left in the U.S., and most of their machinery is pushing 50 years old!