Comments on: The LD Is Dead… Finally

By: D M

D M — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:24:00 +0000

I can get all the Laser Disc and some very good Laser Disc players on Ebay…

And will,keep doing so. Old is Cool. And love them..

By: Earmarx

Earmarx — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:56:00 +0000

BRING BACK LASERDISCS!! PLEAAAASSSEEEE
@TheRealEarmarx

By: Sektow

Sektow — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:58:36 +0000

I bought mine just to play the Star Wars Trilogy. connected to a good sound system it was Awesomeness Purified in Analog !
My wife showed me that it was also excellent for all the Asian Karaoke Discs it could play. Chinese Opera anyone?

By: JD1

JD1 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:12:17 +0000

“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.

By: ldfan

ldfan — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:37:42 +0000

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

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:14:41 +0000

Damn time to move on to hd-dvd

By: deathwombat

deathwombat — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:21:04 +0000

Damnit, I was just thinking of switching over to LD from Betamax…

By: BoyFacedDog

BoyFacedDog — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:17:49 +0000

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.

By: blahblah

blahblah — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:53:58 +0000

They still make LD?!

By: jesus99

jesus99 — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:36:38 +0000

“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