Originally posted by: Doctor M
Wow, I'm a bit late with this. I had a Laserdisc player and a hundred or so discs, and I had no idea they ever made an anamorphic disc.
Was that a later addition like in Japan where they were still building units for the hardcore while everyone else was switching to DVD?
That's an easy mistake to make since most AV enthusiasts were on to DVD shortly after the first few AC3 laserdiscs were hitting shelves.
Btw, when did we start harassing people for typing mistakes? Man talk about childish.
I hope OCP cools down and comes back, he may be strongly emotional about his views right now, but he is a damn productive member of this community.
Wow, I'm a bit late with this. I had a Laserdisc player and a hundred or so discs, and I had no idea they ever made an anamorphic disc.
Was that a later addition like in Japan where they were still building units for the hardcore while everyone else was switching to DVD?
That's an easy mistake to make since most AV enthusiasts were on to DVD shortly after the first few AC3 laserdiscs were hitting shelves.
Btw, when did we start harassing people for typing mistakes? Man talk about childish.
I hope OCP cools down and comes back, he may be strongly emotional about his views right now, but he is a damn productive member of this community.
There were 20 "Squeeze" laserdiscs and three "Test/Demo" discs produced.
Japan-NTSC:
- Alaska:Last Frontier (1994)
- Basic Instinct (1992)
- Cliffhanger (1993)
- Cutthroat Island (1995)
- Gaia's Daughter (1996)
- Julius Caesar (1970)
- Ordinary Europe
- Showgirls (1995)
- Stargate (1994)
- Tahiti
- Test Disc for Wide Television (1995)
- Terminator 2 (1991)
- Terminator 2 THX certified
Germany-PAL:
- Mikrokosmos - Das Volk der Gräser (1996)
- Schlafes Bruder (1995)
- Schlafes Bruder (DTS)
- Showgirls
UK-PAL:
- SONY:LCD Projection WIDE/Super Trinitron WIDE (1996)
- SONY:Super Trinitron Wide (1995)
US-NTSC:
- Free Willy (1993)
- The Fugitive (1993)
- Grumpy Old Men (1993)
- Unforgiven (1992)
The US discs were never sold at retail but were free premiums with the purchase of certain Widescreen Television sets. The UK discs were obviously test discs. I have no information on the German PAL discs.
Unlike DVDs, Squeese Laserdiscs were not converted by the player but by the TV, so viewers without widescreen TVs could not view these discs undistorted.
So, yes, there were indeed some anamorphic laserdiscs produced. Just enough for internet pedantics to have an exception to point to when someone says there were no anamorphic laserdiscs.