Damn… I liked LDs… Now I can’t play my old LD films!

damn, um, just keeping up the pattern.

“Damn… I liked LDs… Now I can’t play my old LD films!”

Yes you can. Pioneer isn’t destroying all the LD players in the world

Last month I cleaned out a storage room at a location I was taking over. The local manager was with me, trying to decide if anything was worth keeping. We uncovered an LD writer/player and a stack of twenty blank disks. The man had been at the location for fifteen years and had no idea what the LD player was.

Damn time to move on to hd-dvd

“all this years from 2002 to 2008 pioneer was selling ld players in what country????”

These DVD/LD combo players would have continued to sell in Japan, where LD was a very big format long before DVD came along. There was a market for a high-quality playback-only movie format in Japan when that market didn’t exist in the U.S. so there lots of folks there have very extensive LD collections, including many titles that have never been released on DVD.

The U.S. market was different, and by the time a substantial number of Americans were ready for a non-recordable movie medium (because they already had VCRs to time-shift TV shows and watch home movies, and finally had big screen TVs – mostly purchased for sports – to appreciate the higher resolution) DVD had made its debut. LD remained a niche product in the U.S. and never became a mass-market item the way it did in Japan.

BRING BACK LASERDISCS!! PLEAAAASSSEEEE
@TheRealEarmarx