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After publishing I realized that I was thinking of Futureworld - the Peter Fonda/ Blythe Danner sequel to Westworld for that CGI stuff. Also, the Apollo Command Module Simulator that I stood on at the Smithsonian is in the background of a shot in Futureworld! True Fact!
My dad and grandpa worked on the Apollo 8.
They made small medallions from the pieces that came back to earth and NASA gave one to everyone who worked on it. They also presented them a letter signed by someone but I can't recall his name.
@@rarex50484 - Time lapse of fluid experiment.
You ever work in aviation? I do. You seem familiar. Don't have to be specific, yes or no is fine. I know that is OT, but I did dream of having a laser disc system for the games when I was a kid.
Mario Bava! Director of my first favorite science fiction film (there is now a long list of favorites). Terrore Nella Spazio (AKA Planet of the Vampires - there are no vampires). Alien was "inspired" by this film, as were others.
@@Miata822 - I love that movie!
You have such cool things....love when you share them with us. You are one of my favorite YT stars......ps....anytime with you is never a waste of it.
I would put 2001 a Space Odyssey up there with Blade Runner as one of a few influential films in the Science Fiction Genre.
Absolutely!! And the effects for 2001 (in 1969) were better (IMHO) than Star Wars, in 1975.
I love that Movie! I agree with Shufei; Blade Runner was good, but it didn't "move" me anything like 2001.
2001 is often shelved in top films of all time lists by critic's and film fanatics, understandably. I agree with the second commenter that BLADE RUNNER is more of a niche film, but it has that amazing soundtrack and explores interesting commentary on what it means to be Human.
Blade runner turned me cyberpunk
Yay! Another LD cinephile! The day I watched Forbidden Planet, letterboxed, in beautiful color, ruined me for VHS. There was a local video store that had wall-to-wall LDs for rent and purchase. I still remember watching the traveling matte boxes as they followed the T.I.E. fighters on that very same Star Wars disc. That's when the video store owner introduced me to the phrase "Never The Same Color" and taught me about video color space.
This video was a joy. Thank you so much for this.
I was an electronics engineer in Britain back in the 80's and did quite a lot of work on video broadcast and related stuff. There was always a bit of rivalry and ragging between European and American engineers over our respective video standards. The American nicknamed our system Picture Always Lousy :-)
I noticed those matte boxes before too.
@@mycosys They (the Americans) thought they were terribly clever, and we (the Europeans) thought the same about ourselves. We (in the tradition of Swift - at least when it came to the Brits) and they (in the tradition of Twain) were always good humoured about this rivalry :-)
Cool stuff, Fran.
"Forbidden Planet", one of the best sci-fi movies ever made. 👍👍🖖😎
Thanks for the frame sync!
I loved laserdisc. I had over 5000 of them in the mid 90s. It was the only way to hear director’s commentaries. Great video.
And sadly still the only way you can hear close to original audio tracks for a number of films.
You just made me flip though my 30 disc collection. Blade Runner and Forbidden Planet are in there.
How about re-encoding the rotting discs into mp4 so at least you have archival copies before the rot progresses to the point it's unplayable?
CX is a noise reduction system from CBS and it was tried on 33 rpm LPs as well. Perhaps you are thinking of Dolby AC-3 (Dolby Digital), a predecessor of later Dolby Surround systems.
Ah yes, Compatible Expansion. Not as high-fidelity as DBX, but backwards compatible with players that didn’t support it.
REPO MAN!! One of my all time Favorite Movies and an all time Cult Classic!! "Your gonna be OK Man; maybe not". "It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes.". " The life of a repo man is always intense.". "Oh... You don't wanna look in there." "You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?". ;-)
FORBIDDEN PLANET !!! woo whooo loved that since I was 4 years old !!! David warner is Awesome !! Omg Fran Brainstorm!!! You never cease to amaze me with everything and I mean everything that you dig is the same that I do!! You are totally from my space and time!!!! I've never known anyone so dead on frequency with my way of being !!! Are you AI reading my mind??
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@Shufei - I'm 59 and my Son is 12. He loves Forbidden Planet and he has for years! I've been trying to bring him up right. He also loves 2001 and Twilight Zone etc. I'm hopeful he will show these things to his kids one day.
Useless fact of the day, the Saturn 5 took 167,000 kg of fuel to get to the top of the launch tower.
How fast was it travelling by the top of the tower?
@@andrewwhite1793 Some speed?
@@andrewwhite1793 About 60 Mph. Considering it's a flying 36-story building, getting it moving that fast in just 400 ft. is pretty damned impressive.
Techmoan and Technology Connections both has great videos explaining about laserdisc.
We had Русь-501 ВИДЕО and 3 more players in USSR but it was ultra rare thing
Fun Fact: Silent Running is also the movie that gave Joel the idea to make MST3k in the form of "guy alone on a satellite with robot friends"
I somehow just knew that you are a Repo Fan.... Back in the 80's when I was in film school we would pool our money and rent 5 or 6 laser discs and then cram 25 people into the living room of a tiny apartment for a classic movie Marathon! It would sometimes run from the early afternoon and all night...well we would have to look at the photos, and read part of the scripts. 2001 was a favorite....and Escape from New York(but that one might have been on Betamax).
Love Repo Man. "The life of a repo man is always intense."
"plate, or shrimp or plate of shrimp"
Amazing stuff, thanks for some random movie tips I'd never heard of. Fond memories of 90's laserdisc experiences (thanks to friends), spending 14hrs going through the entire Spinal Tap Criterion Box Set, the Brazil Criterion, scraping frame by frame out of the CAV Taxi Driver, the clarity of analogue audio on Alien compared to DVD.... plus the Star Trek : The Motion Picture longest TV version edition that remains my favourite cut to this day.
PAL laserdiscs are better than the NTSC, as I did watch them both when I was young, and the player was capable of both NTSC and PAL playback, along with the projector being multistandard, supporting both PAL and both NTSC standards, along with SECAM as well, though no laserdiscs in SECAM ever got played on it. Was way better than VHS or even Betamax, though in the end of VHS you could approach laserdisc quality with a decent SVHS machine, though of course if you had the laserdisc connected via S video or component inputs then the SVHS showed the difference still as being less.
NTSC is always inferior to PAL, lower resolution, the colour shift issues and the colour space drift always showed, along with the lower bandwidth.
NTSC - Never Twice the Same Colour.
Technically better, sure. But there's also the subjective matter of 3:2 pulldown vs speed-up and pitch shifting.
Sadly, that increase in picture quality on PAL discs came with a price compared to its NTSC counterparts: less audio features available.
With PAL discs it was a choice between digital or analog stereo sound - not enough bandwidth to feature both. PAL discs didn't have enough bandwidth left to include AC3/DTS - at least not without sacrificing the PCM (or analog) soundtracks.
Laserdisc stores a frequency modulated CVBS signal. If the receiver of the signal is better than the comb filter of the laser disc player, the composite output is sufficient.
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Howdy Fran!
Nize! But we do have the orig. Star Wars trilogy on DVD! Widescreen, theatrical cuts. (They are "postage stamped" like the laserdisc, but still slightly higher resolution.)
Love and greetings from Germany Fran. Your channel is awesome! Thank you for all your work!
Remember Captain Scarlet is indestructible you are not!
My friend has a rare copy of “ A Clockwork Orange”
It was especially rare because we are in the U.K. he worked for a publishing company “Dennis Publishing” and his boss Felix Dennis was a friend of Stanley Kubrick and I believe he was presented this by Stanley many years ago.
Got that...
Fran Blanche I thought you might but I doubt yours is signed by mr Kubrick.
Shufei from all accounts he was reluctant to sign it but they were good friends so he did.
One small correction: CX was the noise reduction system that was added to the analog soundtrack of LaserDiscs beginning in 1981 (similar to Dolby NR on audio cassettes). Digital audio came later, in 1984.
You have at REPO MAN and PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE... nice history piece.
I've tried explaining Repo Man. I've tried sitting people down in front of it. I have drawn rather negative conclusions about humans.
I'm a recent LD person, so my only LD is Independence Day on PAL, which thankfully is in perfect condition. Disc rot is a major problem.
Laser Disc format was definitely ahead of its time. I remember seeing the first Philips LD player being demonstrated in their research labs in Eindhoven in 1974!
@@mycosys Yes, it was a very productive period for Philips in the area of electronics and audio visual recording. I'm from the UK, but I was working for Philips in Eindhoven at that time in their main research laboratories. During the time I was there they were developing the CD format following their success with the Compact Cassette and also Compact Video Cassettes which were the forerunners of VHS. Philips were also doing a lot of fundamental research on materials. I worked on the discovery of the first high coercivity, rare earth, magnets which were used for the first time under licence by Sony in the Walkman and are now found in all smartphones, tablet and computers, not to mention speakers, headphones and most electric cars.
31:10 - Miss Susie Homemaker dancing around her kitchen! She's looks like totally coked or something!
I love the intro (start of the video) fran… 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
I love this! My only experience with Laserdisk was seeing it once... in middle school, and the teacher used one of those pen scanners to scan a book that would bring up different video clips of science stuff. Really wish they'd have used it more!
Fran, I don't know how to tell you this, but you might be a nerd. :3
This was delightful. A lot of the films in your stack there (including Repo Man) are top favorites of mine too, and there were only 3 or 4 I haven't seen. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, memories and insights.
Repo Man -- yeah!
I had the good fortune of buying an early Pioneer VP-1000 LD player and discs from the estate of a Honeywell engineer. He had a lot of classic discs, but the glory of the collection were 3 of the Space Archive discs!
30:05 - Local stations also cut out scenes to make room for more commercials!
2001 a Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick story by Arthur C Clarke is the best Sci Fy movie of all time hands down . I love Blade Runner don't get me wrong. Just skip the BR sequel. KLUp
Great channel. I love laserdiscs too. I found some good ones together with vinyl at the local rubbish dump. Paid £15 to the guys there. Better laserdiscs and vinyl to what I can normally find in charity / thrift shops. I also have a smaller collection of CED discs that are fun to watch especially when they skip!
Nobody remembers brainstorm! Yet it stuck in my memory for years. I didn't know what it was called for a long time because I saw it on TV. And yes! David Warner is a very underrated actor. He pops up everywhere. THERE ARE FIVE LIGHTS!
I've got almost all of those in my library, including Repo Man. "a repo man's always intense"
I worked at an Interactive TV company back in the dotcom days where we used custom pressed laserdiscs for trade shows and other areas. Since it was an analog signal the data injected in the VBI it would be preserved and played back correctly to the set top boxes. Also we had an internal broadcast cable network running various content with one notable channel playing BladeRunner 24/7.
Thanks Fran . I love Forbidden planet & blade runner (the directors cut ) also . I would not argue that its the best science fiction movie ever made . Alien is another again the directors cut because the released one was cut to shreds. The time machine also is a firm favourite the 1950's one with Rod Taylor not the remake. I think we could spend many, many happy hours watching your library. I don't have Laser disk but i do have a VHS player still which is patched though a digital converter and a lot of the old sci-fi I've got on DVD now . :-)
Forbidden Planet, Blade Runner & The Forbin Project = Great Films.
Do you also have The Andromeda Strain (1971) ?
Thanks Fran awesome video I'm going to go watch repo man now haha
I have a couple laserdiscs, but no player. What I DO have both discs and a player for is RCA's SelectaVision system. I have the classic Star Wars movies on _vinyl!!!_
I have tons of laser discs and several players! I use to watch them in a c64 monitor too!
make a Y/C cable for the rear C64 input from an old s-video cable! the picture will be so much better that way!
You are a National Treasure, Fran! Thank you so much for this. Not only a wonderful look at Laserdiscs, but what a filmography! I eagerly await each new video from you you, but this one might be my favorite of all. So many films that i've seen, and agree with you on (any comments on "Repo Man?"), yet so many more that i now must see! Thanks again for sharing another of your multiple facets with us.
Fran, I watched Star Trek and Lost in Space originally in the 60's. I was about 8 or 9 years of age.(Great Shows!)
GREAT TASTE! of course, lovely collection Fran...thanks for the rundown on laserdisc - yes Capt Scarlett and The Mysterons!
Love Laserdisc - I still use them, just not as often nowadays
Hello Fran, in this video you remind me of Sigourney Weaver. :)
My Dad just sold his Laser Disc version of the original Night of the Living Dead. It was signed by all the living members at the time back in the early 90's.
I bought and have alot of laserdisk back when they came out. I boxed them up and have forgoten about them. This video will give me an excuse to go to storage and search for them.
I think "Brainstorm" was Natalie Woods last movie. 😔
I think Natalie Woods died in a “boating accident” while “Brainstorm” was in production.
Well that certainly takes me back-my home-video setup for a couple of years was a LaserDisc player hooked up to a Commodore 1702 monitor. Widescreen movies were a very squinty experience on that rig.
C1702 has been my gold standard for NTSC composite since childhood. Elementary school principal gave me five of them and I'm realizing they're getting hard to find now.
They're stackable and need four more to build a 3x3 video wall of Commodore 1702s
Given what they’re going for on eBay I think the retro community agrees with you! Mine definitely made the colors pop, especially compared to my parents’ RCA console down in the living room.
18:22 Very Orwellian 1984 esque.
Fran! Somehow, by some miracle, UA-cam decided to put you in my feed, and I am so glad! While this video is 3 years old, it’s very relative today - I am a HUGE LaserDisc collector. And your speaking style, your screen personality, was instantly relatable. Subscribed! Thank you for making such a wonderful video, I am looking forward to your others! (By the way, your taste in films and mine… well suffice it to say that we could be twins in that aspect LOL)
The Woodstock 3-disc Director's Cut and Elephant Parts are my two favorites.
You should do a video about your favorite movies. You seem to have a quite similar taste to myself and I would just love to see more recommendations and a little background about what you like and why
Not a waste of time Fran, was worth every minute.
A friend dumped a huge collection of laserdiscs on me and I’ve acquired quite a few players at thrift store including one that plays Genesis games, but I never knew much about the features on these. This has rekindled my interest.
How uncultured can you get to dislike an awsome video like this ? I Love what you're doing keep it up
I'm surprised you don't have any Japanese anime laserdiscs.
Better dump those discs with rot to DVD as soon as you can.
What an absolutely STUNNING collection, you are a treasure, thank you so much for sharing!!!!!D
Krull? Tron? Id love to watch tron in that format and krull because its a favourite
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared Syn! :)
I saw It's a mad mad mad mad world when it came out and saw it in a cinerama theater. It was almost as good as 3D. 🙂
I still watch my laserdiscs. thanks for doing a video on this format.
Laserdisc was so awesome!
I had one, with a huge collection of discs! I lost them all in an ugly divorce, but I digress...
It really was the most awesome format from the late 70s, 80's, and 90s.
The first Pioneer unit I had contained a Helium Neon laser, and the driver board kept overheating and burning out.
It was so awesome when Pioneer came out with a player that had an integrated laser, because it got so old having to lug that ten ton player back to the stereo shop for warranty replacements, LOL!
I think that's what gave it a bad rep back when it first came out. But one fascinating thing about the original was how industrial it was.
That Helium Neon laser was the real deal! That sucker was BRIGHT!
Awesome collection!
Wow, I never knew about laser rot. I just inherited a large collection of laserdiscs that have been sitting for many years. Now I’m gonna have to go through and check probably 100 discs. Thank you for posting this!
Ah.... Makes me want to dust off my machine and discs now....
Preach brother!
You’ve got a great collection. Collecting and watching Laserdiscs is quite a different experience than dvds or blue-ray discs with their cheap looking packaging.
During one of my classes in grad school, we created a Laserdisc that could be accessed using Apple HyperCard and a Macintosh. Each of us did an educational stack and did a content video. This was probably 1994. A lot of fun and we all felt pretty special. This was when we were still updating software via floppies. Burning "disposable" CDs was still in the future for us.
Built quite a collection of these several years ago when everyone was dumping them on eBay. I also managed to grab several players for next to nothing around that same time. Definitely worth the effort!
*Awesome* 👍👍👍👍
I'm rather disappointed you don't have a copy of Elephant Parts.
It was a goofy lark that Michael Nesmith made back in the day. (Bee-Gees Disease) (NNS Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority) (Sunset Sam).
It's a classic from the 80s, LOL! Another thing about Michael Nesmith was, back in the early days of MTV, pretty much every other music video on, he produced.
Just an icon of the time laserdisc was big. The disc sold so well, they made a very short lived skit show called Elephant Parts, right? Nope! It was called Television Parts...
Colossus will give your lives new meaning..........freedom from worry........freedom from war........disease.......starvation........in time, you will come to accept this........in time, you will come to love Colossus........
The end where Colossus speaks to the world is still one of my favourite moments in film. The vocoder only adds to it.
Fran,
Loved the video on the venerable laserdisc.
I think this may have been covered but just to clear up any confusion.
The audio on LaserDisc is carried in several ways.
Mode 1 the original that laserdisc launched with, 2 AFM audio channels that could be strapped together for stereo or separate for selecting a second language or directors commentary.
Mode 2 An update of mode 1 done by Pioneer adding the CBS CX (compatible Extension) noise reduction system to the standard AFM audio.
Mode 3 PCM 44.1 kHz sample rate 16-bit quantization digital sound, this was added to LaserDisc in 1984 by Pioneer, it does not disturb the standard analog audio channels.
Mode 4 DTS a 1.5 Mbps DTS 5.1 signal replaces the PCM digital audio, for compatibility the standard analog channels have a stereo or Dolby stereo signal included on the analog tracks.
Mode 5 Dolby AC-3 (Dolby Digital) The Left analog audio channel is replaced with a 384 kbps encoded(RF) signal that replaces the left analog audio channel, leaving right for directors commentary or a second mon language channel, the 44.1/16 PCM signal is left along on the digital audio track, with it being either stereo or Dolby stereo enoded.
The RF signal is demodulated and converted into the AC-3 bitstream and sent out to a Dolby Digital decoder, this involved either a separate demodulator, a demodulator/dd decoder or on some receivers an RF input that had an internal demodulator inside the receiver.
i loved laserdiscs! i used to have to import all my anime from japan this way. anime kids today have it so easy.
Yes!!! I still have my Bubblegum Crisis discs
wow!!! I only had 3 laserdisc back then, and I just thought it's a giant CD lol didn't know it's actually analogue!!
Does your new lab have the weird 2 phase electrical system?
OMG! you have ''Danger Diabolik''!
I've gotten 99% of the Laser Discs you show. In addition to the Apollo 17 disc I have all the space discs they released. I do hate to think of the $$$ I spent on those discs over the years. You can find them for pretty cheap at thrift stores now. Also, Danager Diabolik was the final movie commented on by Mystery Science Theater 3000.
I have this dream to be able to fully conserve NTSC or PAL analog video in a digital format, where it isn't stored as a compressed digital video stream but rather the analog signal like a wave file. It would take up 1.8 GByte space per minute. 16bit per sample, 16 MHz sampling rate. It can also store audio in that form, but it's rather recommended to store it in a simple wave file.
You could then later demodulate the color and stuff in software, clean up the signal and more, to get the most of the image quality back.
Sample it in high data rate PCM, then digitize. It worked for Nyquist.
Was the movie Island of Terror (Staring Peter Cushing) ever put on Laserdisc? If so did it show the FIRST autopsy of Ian Bellos performed by Dr. Landers and Constable Harris unedited? It was the scariest part of the entire movie and it is not shown on the VHS, DVD or Blu-ray versions!!!!! We can clearly see that it was edited out. You can hear very scary music playing for no apparent reason at the end of the autopsy!!! In the scene in the theater version you get to see up close the aftermath of a Silicate attack!!!!!
Don't know Spinal Tap? Stop watching NOW! Get outta here!!! ROFLMAO!!!
I loved Laserdisc, but then along comes 1080 P and I kinda gave up on them. And then I learned you could upscale, and I'm in love again! A happy ending. Great video. Take care...
I'm impressed. I thought I was the only one that loved "Time After Time" and David Warner! "Spinal Tap' and its sequel... Wow! I think "Time After Time" is so underrated and I think people miss the connection/mixing with H. G. Wells's and Jack... You blew my mind on this video. Unfortunately I could never afford to buy a laser disc player then. Thanks for sharing.
Blade Runner...I have all 3 cuts plus the Blade Runner 2049 "continuation" that was released in 2017.
David Warner AKA Gul Madred from ST:TNG...also Master Control program in TRON...and Aldous Gajic in Babylon 5.
I watched ST:TOS every week when they came out...was my favorite show back then. :)
Excalibur is the BEST film from my youth...I love it to this day!
Hey Fran just found your channel today from hearing the Guitologist refer to you in his video about the UMG FIRE. Thank you for the information,. Lots of old recordings that I once thought about discarding, now hold a sort of reverence. Thank you for bringing this to my attention via the guitologist.
LASERDISCS!!! I have a pretty good assortment of movies on laserdisc, however I haven’t been able to watch them for some time. I CANT FIND A LASERDISC PLAYER, well that is, in my price range. Maybe one of your viewers has turned you onto one or has reached out to you about one. If you happen to become aware of a laserdisc player with a reasonable price tag,will you please let me know. Thanks in advance. Sorry for the improper punctuation and grammar,
THANKS FOR ALL THE GREAT VIDEOS, I HAVE ONLY SEEN THE TITLES SO FAR but I can’t wait to binge watch your channel and listen to your band and check out your guitar pedals. YOU SEEM TO BE AN AWESOMELY INTELLIGENT & INTERESTING PERSON THAT I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT!!! Keep on keeping on, and ROCK OUT every chance you get!!!! You newest, biggest fan.
I'm 25 I feel like an old man haha I want to get a laserdisc I love old films there a lot made I like and you convinced me to get one and geart video by the way
Thanks for some awesome film recommendations. Many of my favourites are in there and a few I've never heard of (but will check out) :-)
Hi Fran , WOW + WOW = GR8 , I so loved this video , Han shot first !! Yes Guido is dead !! I was heavy into LD`s , I had the Star Wars 9 disc CAV Ultimate Collection , Brainstorm , multi-aspect ratio , Trumble = Yeah , there would be NO Star Wars without his work !!! Brainstorm == YES !!
It`s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World ___ Extended Edition , R U Kidding Me !!!!!!!! That is not even available on dvd or BR or cloud .
You have to do a part two , Yes CAV = Constant angular velocity , it spun at 1800 RPM`s the exact ratio of 30 frames per second , capable of freezing any frame per side , down side it could only hole a maximum of 30 min. per side versus CLV == Constant linear velocity could hold 60 min. per side , however could not freeze frame without a blue ( or black ) screen , UNLESS the player had an 8 bit memory !! Started out spinning at 1800 rpm`s and ended up spinning at 600 , before flipping !! I loved this , luv luv luv this.
My first player was a CLD-D701 , then I had a Pioneer 'Elite' CLD 97 , then the last Pioneer 'Elite" the CLD-99 === WOW take me back :)
I always wanted the crown jewel of LD players the venerable LD-S2 , Pioneer`s Ultimate Player , it was so good , it refused to flip !!
Pioneer was adamant about NOT making an LD-S3 that flipped because it would damage the integrity of the laser disc , so the LD-S2 was the last great player I never had , ,one that had a price tag of around 3500.00 US dollars , for a one sided LD only player.
You have to know I could go on and on about this , I only wish I did not sell , I had so many movies that I no longer can watch because they never made there way to dvd.
Of all the years and all the video you have made , this deserves an Oscar for historical information , long live the videophiles !! :)
Take care , please do a part 2 , thanks , Gary
Out of all my old LaserDisc stuff left in my House is the Printer Unit that Go's with the Unit..
w/Plugin Remote...And in Color with the Prints.. Also have a Head Unit out of the RCA Camden LaserDisc Lab's..
Two of the Laser Heads just them wish I had the Fridge Size Controller's Still Thanks DAD..
I still think I have some Photos of them of FA.. (www.furaffinity.net/view/271654/)..
This is the 9 Laser Track Version, never went in to Customer Equipment, But Government hehe..
Super marination here too, watched almost everything the Andersons made. Fireball XL5 (not to be confused with the US show), Joe 90, UFO, Space 1999, Stingray
What entertainment! My first LD I watched was JAWS. Never seen Spinal Tapped (D'OH!). I've never seen such cool variety on a single UA-cam channel. Fran, you're the best!
Blade Runner. Forbidden Planet. 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yes! And all the rest too!! You have the coolest stuff. By the time I heard of Mondo Kim it was no more...
I have the big "Definitive Collection" Star Wars boxed set, with the 3 movies on 9 CAV discs. One of my favorite purchases ever. One of my favorite moments during the Laserdisc era, however, was when I got my first Dolby Digital 5.1 system set up. Blew everyone AWAY when I played the AC-3 Stargate disc. I could not afford to get into Laserdiscs until 1993, when I was 19/20 years old.
I never really bought to collect because if u do u would have to buy 2 copies of each disc I purchased laserdiscs because I was in awe of the format to watch my favorite films my first player a pioneer cld-980 first disc Aliens box set un Dec 91
I had the Star Wars Trilogy (first restoration of the Original films) on Laserdisc in a Box set with a Coffee table book. The Disks were CAV. Had extras, Including commentary by George Lucas. 3 discs per film. 9 in all. Cost about $300.00. Wish I still had it.
FRAN! It's like you are living in my head! ALL of the films you highlighted here are my ALL-TIME favorites! Brainstorm was Natalie Woods LAST film before she was murdered by her HUSBAND (can't prove that) and Christopher Walken was on the boat with them when she died (and also starred with her in the film!) And Bladerunner? I read the book (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) over and over! Then you pull up the last film and it's, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World?! People get tired of me talking about the film! Funniest film with the most star studded cast. You and I must be separated at birth! lol