05-30-2011, 02:22 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Vancouver
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Ebay is probably a good bet.
The only vintage media I think is still actually cool are records. Laserdisc reminds me of minidisc. Only a few people ever really had them and something better came along pretty soon after.
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05-30-2011, 02:23 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: @robdashjamieson
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I guess it wouldn't surprise you to know I have a few minidisc players kicking around? Then again, it was a staple for assignments for my radio schooling...
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05-30-2011, 02:27 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Vancouver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Prototype
I guess it wouldn't surprise you to know I have a few minidisc players kicking around? Then again, it was a staple for assignments for my radio schooling...
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I used to have one too. It sucked. I had to literally record music into it in real time...some of the later ones let you transfer files over similar to an mp3 player. I sold it to some sucker in the bargainfinder and got my first mp3 player (the Creative Zen) days later. That was a life altering piece of technology.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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05-30-2011, 02:32 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: @robdashjamieson
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I have mine set up in the garage. Proof as to how much I use it.
Honostly, I really only want to track down the original Star Wars Trilogy for Laserdisc for now. If I come across anything else it would be bonus.
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05-30-2011, 02:41 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Would Recordland in Inglewood have any? Seems like the type of obscure thing they might have a few kicking around.
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05-30-2011, 02:56 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Prototype
I have mine set up in the garage. Proof as to how much I use it.
Honostly, I really only want to track down the original Star Wars Trilogy for Laserdisc for now. If I come across anything else it would be bonus.
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http://cgi.ebay.ca/Star-Wars-Trilogy...item35b249246e
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05-30-2011, 03:09 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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I've read that the LD of the Star Wars Trilogy is the definitive version before George Lucas started "correcting" things in subsequent releases.
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"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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05-30-2011, 03:26 PM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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Yeah, I got into an arguement with somebody once over the Star Wars LDs. He claimed to have seen a production LD-ROM drive for a computer; so the content could be ripped from LD and re-mastered digitally to DVD.
It was a bigger issue at the time; because none of the Star Wars movies had been released on DVD yet.
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05-30-2011, 03:39 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: @robdashjamieson
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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
I've read that the LD of the Star Wars Trilogy is the definitive version before George Lucas started "correcting" things in subsequent releases.
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You can understand why I would want it then.
The DVDs that came out with the original films were direct copies of the LD from what I rememeber. They weren't compressed the same as DVD, nor was it the aspect ratio or something.
Even the Bluray that will be coming out soon has the 'updated' movies on it. I don't know why someone as money hungry as Lucas wouldn't offer the originals too, or maybe he's waiting until everyone has bought this one to offer it up to us.
A buddy of mine who lurks these parts called Recordland, sounds like they have a collection there.
Yasa - Thanks for the link. I've been keeping my eyes on these for a while, but looks like I'd be paying more in shipping than I would for the item itself. Would like to try and find it local before I go that route.
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05-30-2011, 03:54 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: @robdashjamieson
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Just called Recordland. They have some on sale, and they had Empire. For amazingly cheap I might add. Now to find time to get down there and pick it up.
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05-30-2011, 04:02 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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I saw some at value village a couple years back. An outside chance they might have some.
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05-30-2011, 09:14 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Prototype
Thanks to fundmark19, I am now the proud owner of a Laserdisc player. It's just one of those things I've always wanted to own. No other way to explain.
I know they're outdated, but has anyone seen any discs for sale in Calgary? I've kept my eye on Kijiji, and on Ebay. Nothing is striking my fancy there. Ebay seems to have a mandate on charging $20 for shipping. Would rather find something locally and just pay for it.
Is Tramps still around? Does Video and Sound still sell them?
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There was a place im Seattle that sold them. But, unfortunately that was sometime around 1992. Had a copy of "Penn & Teller Get Killed". Not the most practical form factor - discs the size of records and the discs were loaded from the top.
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05-31-2011, 08:24 AM
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#1 Goaltender
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Proto where is recordland? If it is near me I owe you one and can probably stop and grab it
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05-31-2011, 08:39 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: @robdashjamieson
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I wouldn't worry about it Fundy. I want to stop in and see what else they got. Just get to your storage already 
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05-31-2011, 07:30 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: (780)
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Originally Posted by sec304
I remember seeing a few for sale in the discount bin at Sam the Record man, and I was thinking, WOW, they still have these things in stock!!!
unfortunatley for you, I believe that was in 1999.
I wouldn't doubt it if there's a place out there that collects and sells these things.
Give Recordland a call (if they haven't gone out of business yet)
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I don't think they will be going out of business any time soon. The place is always busy and with the Vinyl revival the dude is able to charge $20 for a record that probably cost him $2. He's doing alright.
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