i am interested in seeing this on a projector, as I feel you see less imperfections on one. Projectors are a lot more common for cheap prices today too, it's awesome
Laserdisc is 4:3 full screen (either open-matte or pan and scan), and 4:3 letterboxed. There were only a handful of true (anamorphic) widescreen transfers, and they were only made as promotional items to give away at retail stores when a customer bought a new widescreen TV. To play a letterboxed LD on a widescreen TV requires you to zoom the image, bringing the 4:3 image out to meet the sides of your screen, and hiding the letterbox bars which sit above and below the 'widescreen' frame - as it appears in the video above. 👍😎
The highest Video resolution that Laserdisc can handle is up to 480i. If you have a higher quality 4k tv like a Sony bravia, and it has composite out, then you should have access to a incredible 3D comb filter!
Hi there, as I said in a comment below there is no converter. This is composite from the player straight in to composite on the TV. No HDMI ports are being used.
@@mickaka ok thank you Can you send me a pictures of your connection behind the laserdisc player and the tv, I only have hdmi ports on my 4K tv , THANKS HAVE A NICE DAY
Hi Mick, how did you connect your laserdisc player to your TV? My laserdisc player is also connected to my tv via rca cables to an adapter that plugs into my tv. I can honestly tell you you none of my laserdiscs looks this good.
Hey there, the Panasonic still has RCA connections (composite video can be plugged in to the green component input), so it’s composite direct in the the TV. I’ve owned quite a few of the cheaper HDMI adapters and I find they usually make the image worse or cause aspect ratio problems.
Hey there, the Panasonic still has RCA connections (composite video can be plugged in to the green component input), so it’s composite direct in the the TV. I’ve owned quite a few of the cheaper HDMI adapters and I find they usually make the image worse or cause aspect ratio problems.
@@mickaka Yeah my laserdisc player is also connected to my 4K tv via a green cable that connects RCA cables. The green cable adapter came with my Samsung TV. But for whatever reason none of my laserdiscs look as good your quick & the dead laserdisc. I'm tempted to buy a copy of your demo movie to see if it looks about the same on my TV or worse. Anyway thank you so much for your kind and friendly response! Crystal 🔮✨
@@user-friendly-boiiis what kind/brand of Laserdisc you use? There is sometimes a huge difference in picture quality. I had a Sony but the picture was not so great as a Pioneer that i use now.
@@mickaka oh ok that explains it cause I’m using a av to hdmi converter box and it looks real crappy on my tv I got an lg cx tv I don’t think it has composite on it
It not as impressive with films that are older like Logan’s Run for example. Also, with LD the better the player the better the quality. It is true that OLED does a great job at making them look better. It’s all about the blacks and contrast which OLED spits out in spades.
There’s no way that is laserdisc. Letterboxed movies are still presented in 1.33:1 aspect ratio will have black bars on top & bottom. There would be some serious cropping, de-interlacing and upscaling to make laserdiscs look even halfway decent, especially when they only have 425 interlaced lines of resolution (VHS had 240, NTSC TV had 480. Star Wars original trilogy that appeared on DVD were from laserdisc masters and were nothing to write home about.
It’s 100% laserdisc, but as yourself and one other commenter seem unable to accept that, I’ll make a point of doing a follow video with an uncut loading of the disc.
It kinda depends on the source. A dvd remastered from a new transfer and in 16x9 widescreen will clearly beat a 4x3 letterbox laserdisc. But those made from the same video master, things originally shot on standard definition video, a movie or tv show that was originally in 4x3 or open matte. LD in those cases actually looks about as good as dvd.
I'm impressed to see older technology on 4k
Looks surprisingly very sharp. Thanks for sharing this video
This is Glory to Interpolation Algorithm.
That must be a REALLY well mastered LD. Looks great. Sharon Stone was so hot.
I like watching the dirt in the movies on laserdisc. Takes me back to a time when 35mm was king!
i am interested in seeing this on a projector, as I feel you see less imperfections on one. Projectors are a lot more common for cheap prices today too, it's awesome
That looks really good!
Its Not Bad. I Love Ld's and miss them. Great. Gone too soon😭
I still have many laserdiscs. Some of them played on my Pionneer CLD-D790 have a very nice picture on my Sony 4K 75 inches!
4k tv's look just as good as 1080p
Facts 💯
I wonder how good Laserdisc movies will look like when they are upscaled to 4K using the upcoming RetroTINK 4K
Someone just posted a video doing that
Nice!
Are you done, Mr. Swedish Champion?
What are you using for ups along? Looks fantastic!
Not bad. Not bad indeed.
Can’t beat Bounty Law on laserdisc!
i never own 4k can you tell me what is aspect ratio?
Looks awesome! I just ordered it myself on Laserdisc. Is it full screen, or you have to do something to get it full screen? :)
Laserdisc is 4:3 full screen (either open-matte or pan and scan), and 4:3 letterboxed. There were only a handful of true (anamorphic) widescreen transfers, and they were only made as promotional items to give away at retail stores when a customer bought a new widescreen TV.
To play a letterboxed LD on a widescreen TV requires you to zoom the image, bringing the 4:3 image out to meet the sides of your screen, and hiding the letterbox bars which sit above and below the 'widescreen' frame - as it appears in the video above. 👍😎
The highest Video resolution that Laserdisc can handle is up to 480i. If you have a higher quality 4k tv like a Sony bravia, and it has composite out, then you should have access to a incredible 3D comb filter!
There are 1080i LD’s. Not many titles were available. Top Gun and T2 were a couple.
@@johnbruce4003 laserdiscs in itself was already not that widespread, hivision discs are basically impossible to find unless you live in Japan
@@tristan6509 Everything before 1999 was on LD. Everything. More than 100,000 titles
But the description says this is PAL. So 576i I believe.
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Hello which converter do you use to connect your pioneer dvl 909:919 laserdic player to the hdmi of your flat screen, thank you
Hi there, as I said in a comment below there is no converter.
This is composite from the player straight in to composite on the TV.
No HDMI ports are being used.
@@mickaka ok thank you Can you send me a pictures of your connection behind the laserdisc player and the tv, I only have hdmi ports on my 4K tv , THANKS HAVE A NICE DAY
All are standard round red, white and yellow RCA connections.
@@mickaka ok thank you , i have no RCA white red and yellow. just HDMI , my tv is the model 2023.
Hi Mick, how did you connect your laserdisc player to your TV? My laserdisc player is also connected to my tv via rca cables to an adapter that plugs into my tv. I can honestly tell you you none of my laserdiscs looks this good.
Hey there, the Panasonic still has RCA connections (composite video can be plugged in to the green component input), so it’s composite direct in the the TV.
I’ve owned quite a few of the cheaper HDMI adapters and I find they usually make the image worse or cause aspect ratio problems.
Hey there, the Panasonic still has RCA connections (composite video can be plugged in to the green component input), so it’s composite direct in the the TV.
I’ve owned quite a few of the cheaper HDMI adapters and I find they usually make the image worse or cause aspect ratio problems.
@@mickaka Yeah my laserdisc player is also connected to my 4K tv via a green cable that connects RCA cables. The green cable adapter came with my Samsung TV. But for whatever reason none of my laserdiscs look as good your quick & the dead laserdisc. I'm tempted to buy a copy of your demo movie to see if it looks about the same on my TV or worse. Anyway thank you so much for your kind and friendly response!
Crystal 🔮✨
@@user-friendly-boiiis what kind/brand of Laserdisc you use? There is sometimes a huge difference in picture quality. I had a Sony but the picture was not so great as a Pioneer that i use now.
@@mickaka What model Panasonic 4k LCD are you using?
May I ask what you used in order to hook up the analog RCA cables to HDMI?
I didn’t, my Panasonic 4K TV has analogue RCA inputs.
Oh, cool! That's great. Most companies skip that nowadays. @@mickaka
@@mickakaI thought you were using something like one of those Premium Grade Upscalers like the RetroTINK 4K or something like that
@@nathanielenochs1843 no mate, this is direct RCA to the TV.
Any scaling and filtering is all being done at the TV end.
What size is your 4K tv?
55”
Are you using an av converter box
No, this is composite cable direct from the LD player straight in to the TV.
@@mickaka oh ok that explains it cause I’m using a av to hdmi converter box and it looks real crappy on my tv I got an lg cx tv I don’t think it has composite on it
@@mickaka what laser disc player are u running and what tv setup do you have
What movies is this?
The quick and the dead
Get an HD Ready Plasma TV and get some "analogue" feeling or a CRT..
I don’t need to, I have both, see my other videos.
It not as impressive with films that are older like Logan’s Run for example. Also, with LD the better the player the better the quality. It is true that OLED does a great job at making them look better. It’s all about the blacks and contrast which OLED spits out in spades.
For 5 Euros you can buy the remastered Blu-ray 😆
I have the 4K bluray, that’s not really the point.
@@mickaka Nice.. Hope to see more content from you. You got really interesting equipment and stuff.. :D
Same resolution as DVD. It should look good.
Theres more to this story, you should not expect this kind of video quality at all
There’s no way that is laserdisc. Letterboxed movies are still presented in 1.33:1 aspect ratio will have black bars on top & bottom. There would be some serious cropping, de-interlacing and upscaling to make laserdiscs look even halfway decent, especially when they only have 425 interlaced lines of resolution (VHS had 240, NTSC TV had 480. Star Wars original trilogy that appeared on DVD were from laserdisc masters and were nothing to write home about.
It’s 100% laserdisc, but as yourself and one other commenter seem unable to accept that, I’ll make a point of doing a follow video with an uncut loading of the disc.
That would be helpful. Showing only the TV was no confirmation at all.
It is just zoomed in.. Any TV can do that..
Well for one it's a PAL LD so 576i, not 480i.
It would help to know if the picture was letterbox widescreen or formatted to fit a 4x3 tv.
many laserdiscs have better sound than blurays, the sound is more explosive in laserdisc.
It's not because of the laserdisc. It's because of a good upcalling algorithme
Laserdisc still have superior sound for most pre-1995 movies, but come on, picture looks like crap on digital displays.
It looks great if you want that warm nostalgic old school feeling it doesn't look crap in my opinion it just looks older
that is not a laser disk movie too sharp
It is 100% Laserdisc.
it is laser disc
Come on... The ordinary DVD can be so much better than old compromiss LD... It's not Shockingly, it,s downgrade, degradation.
It kinda depends on the source. A dvd remastered from a new transfer and in 16x9 widescreen will clearly beat a 4x3 letterbox laserdisc.
But those made from the same video master, things originally shot on standard definition video, a movie or tv show that was originally in 4x3 or open matte. LD in those cases actually looks about as good as dvd.
HD VHS and LD and even regular VHS tapes are better than dvds and blurays, they dont get scratched