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Info Wanted: watching the Laserdiscs directly - how good do they look on a large tv?

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I was wondering how good does the star wars laserdisc look on large widescreen tvs? I have a Pioneer CLD D504. Is that a good player or could I do much better?

Troy

looking for HDTV of the  Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.  Also HDTV of The Lord of the Rings trilogy

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Originally posted by: fffffff
I was wondering how good does the star wars laserdisc look on large widescreen tvs? I have a Pioneer CLD D504. Is that a good player or could I do much better?

Troy


The 504 is a decent player, but not great. You can do much much better. The star wars discs generally don't look too good on a widescreen TV. I find that the definitive collection set has about the best picture quality I've seen of the various releases. Besides your LD player, you also have to take into consideration the quality of the deinterlacer in the set and the quality of the aspect ratio modes to watch the films in their proper aspect ratio. A good quality ld player, a display with a quality deinterlacer, aspect ratio modes, and comb filter can make most LD look pretty good on widescreen sets. The star wars discs don't look great because the quality of the transfers themselves are not good.



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Ok. With computer sofware, filters, capturing cards, color correction getting better, can a not-so-good transfer be made better?

looking for HDTV of the  Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith.  Also HDTV of The Lord of the Rings trilogy

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Ok. With computer sofware, filters, capturing cards, color correction getting better, can a not-so-good transfer be made better?


Not really man the general rule is Poop in poop back out... BUT there are a few very nice transfers out there (if you don't have them all already ) but I may be wrong but I'm kinda sure that that is the rule

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I owned many of the LDs. They look ok on large widescreen TVs or even front projectors.

However, there are versions released here that are MUCH better quality because their source is better (PAL vs NTSC).

You should grab Citizen's versions.

I watch them upscaled to 720p on my 119" screen and front projector and they look VERY good...almost official DVD quality.
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They can look really good through a great scaler, have a look at the Lumagen scalers, they make my laserdisc collection look great on a HD screen.
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