TNL Gentlemen's Laserdisc Society

[A Robot Bit Me]

M is one of the best movies ever made. I got goosebumps just looking at that cover.

[YellerDog]

Less classics and more karate movies, yeller.

Oh ok.

[A Robot Bit Me]

And I've finished.

[YellerDog]

lol

My LD Criterion Collection has gotten formidable. Taking a break from new pickups until I get some of them watched, but it's tough. The local record store has a pretty great turnaround on $2-$5 discs.

I've been using Ebert's 'Great Movies' book as a nice map, the vast majority of 'em are on LD.

[GohanX]

Yeller has found my weakness!

I'm jelly of all the Criterions though, I get most of my stuff from the net so most Criterions are expensive.

[YellerDog]

I don't think I'd have a third of 'em if they weren't just 'there' every time I go browsing in person.

[GohanX]

Well, if I wasn't there before, I think I just went Full Retard. I mentioned earlier that I had moved my primary setup away from a CRT and to my plasma tv in the living room, sacrificing a bit of quality for the increase in size, and running my player through a DVD recorder to get acceptable image quality on a HDTV. It looked pretty good with fullscreen stuff, but widescreen movies (zoomed in to fit the width) suffered quite a bit. So I went balls deep and bought a DVDO VP50 video scaler off of ebay, which is just about the best thing you can get for upscaling low res content to a HDTV. Now all I need is a noise reduction device, and I will officially be at retard baller status, running a composite signal through three different devices to get it looking as good as a 20 year old TV.

[BerringerX]

This weekend, I learned that a laserdisc player that could also play Genesis/Sega CD games existed.

[YellerDog]

Yup! There were some LD-only games as well. Nothing super notable really, but a pretty good footnote.

There was also a PC-Engine module for it!

[YellerDog]

Well, if I wasn't there before, I think I just went Full Retard. I mentioned earlier that I had moved my primary setup away from a CRT and to my plasma tv in the living room, sacrificing a bit of quality for the increase in size, and running my player through a DVD recorder to get acceptable image quality on a HDTV. It looked pretty good with fullscreen stuff, but widescreen movies (zoomed in to fit the width) suffered quite a bit. So I went balls deep and bought a DVDO VP50 video scaler off of ebay, which is just about the best thing you can get for upscaling low res content to a HDTV. Now all I need is a noise reduction device, and I will officially be at retard baller status, running a composite signal through three different devices to get it looking as good as a 20 year old TV.

Good lord, man! I'll stick with the Sony Trinitron.