True Story:

The first (and so far only) time I ever actually used an LD player was three years ago. The media center in the basement of my university's library had a viewing room and some of the tv's had LD players hooked up to them. They have a collection of about 250 laserdiscs. I wanted an excuse to both 1) use a laserdisc player and 2) watch Ben-Hur (which I'd never seen before). So I went up to the desk and gave the girl the call number and she gave me the set, a pair of headphones and a remote control. The booth I'd been assigned to was a 20-inch sony crt.

Yes, I realize that's about as far from ideal a format for that movie as you can get without watching it on pan n' scan vhs, but believe it or not it was actually a pretty cool experience.