Hey! Great to be here!

Hi everyone. My name's Adam. I've been collecting LaserDiscs for around a year now and and my collection currently stands at 81 Discs and a Pioneer CLD-V2300D which is awesome! I think LD's are excellent, much better than DVD in so many ways. Glad to be a part of this new forum!

My collection!

Welcome to the forum, Adam. Early days yet but hopefully the forum will take off.

Our laserdisc model numbers are pretty close, I've got a Pioneer CLD V2120D. Yours is a higher number so I'd guess it's a nicer machine, but I have heard that Pioneer laserdisc player numbering can be quite confusing so who knows...

Welcome to the forum , I have a pioneer CLD2950 it wasnt expensive and Im quite happy with it . plays both pal & ntsc and is dual play so does everything i want it too.

hi all been a collector for about 7 years, i love laserdisc much better then dvd,

my players are cld 1750, cld 2950, cld 925, & dvl 700 ntsc only,

my cld 925 is the one i use the most,

the dvl 700 is dead in the water it plays dvds but not lds,

i have about 300 laserdisc to my wifes nightmare,

this is my first forum so hope it takes off.

It's good to know you, Adam. I'm intrigued. What made you get into laserdiscs when you did? And are you interested in any particular types - PAL or NTSC? Movies or music? Vintage or contemporary? (Clearly, there's hardly anything post-2000, but you know what I mean.) And where are you looking to find stuff? eBay is by no means the best source - go direct to a good dealer if you can find one. Most of the best online sites are in the US where shipping and customs charges make purchasing very expensive, but there are still a few decent traders specialising in LDs here in the UK. I could point you in the right direction, if interested.

Good hunting,
Kenneth

I too would be interested to hear about good traders. I found one guy who sometimes trades them in Newcastle but he's pricing himself way above ebay so I've never bought anything from him.

laserkb wrote:

It's good to know you, Adam. I'm intrigued. What made you get into laserdiscs when you did? And are you interested in any particular types - PAL or NTSC? Movies or music? Vintage or contemporary? (Clearly, there's hardly anything post-2000, but you know what I mean.) And where are you looking to find stuff? eBay is by no means the best source - go direct to a good dealer if you can find one. Most of the best online sites are in the US where shipping and customs charges make purchasing very expensive, but there are still a few decent traders specialising in LDs here in the UK. I could point you in the right direction, if interested.

Good hunting,
Kenneth

I got in to LaserDiscs by accident really. I'm a big fan of The Lawnmower Man and it was around a year ago when I was searching ebay for stuff to do with that, I came across two LaserDiscs. I bought them both thinking they'd be great to display. Not long after I bought a couple other discs just to display in my room but I became really interested in finding out what LD's were all about. So I checked out various sites finding as much info as I could about them and they seemed like more than just a retro movie format. It seemed they still had many advantages over DVD's.

Anyway, I ended up getting the CLD-V2300D for my birthday along with a few more discs and was instantly impressed with the quality of the picture and especially the sound. I liked how clear the sound was and how natural the picture looked compared to DVD, which does have a higher resolution but a lot of releases are full of digital artifacts like haloing and macro blocking. LD doesn't have digital crap on the picture.

So, that's pretty much how I became a fan of LaserDiscs. It also helps that most of my favourite movies are from the 80's and 90's and are available on LD. As for what I collect, pretty much anything. My collection consists mostly of regular movies, PAL & NTSC but I've also got some special edition box sets (Alien, Aliens, Natural Born Killers and T2). I'm also in to a lot of the CG releases like Beyond the Mind's Eye, Computer Graphics Special, etc. Anything that looks interesting and is affordable.