What I love most about this video is to see those stores. Look at the lights, decor and ambience. Even the places had more personality. I wish I could go back to the early 90s.
Love the C+C music factory playing in the background. Btw I remember Mom playing this on her double deck tape player. My favorite childhood memories are taking a blank tape and copying the entire C+C music factory tape and gave a copy to a girl in my 2nd grade class. Kids today will never understand the 90's technology. ;/
That guy was right, laserdisc was the wave of the future but only phase 1 of it! Little did people know in 1991 we would have DVD/Blu Ray/4K Blu Ray all being sold at once while competing against digital download/streaming movies/Netflix for the future of home entertainment LOL! The future can take really funny turns.
Must have had a bunch of wealthy people living in the area at the time, for the sales of lasedisc to be good. A friend at work, recalls around 1992, his uncle at the time, was a trial lawyer, purchased the latest model for around $1200, has the biggest and latest tv, the best in class hi-fi sound system, invited him and a bunch of his other friends over one weekend, and every one of them were astounded by the crisp clear sound and video they had never seen or heard of, even at the theater uptown. Laserdisc may have been a failure from a commercial standpoint, but from a technological perspective, it was the future, in that it paved the way for CD's, DVDS, and blue ray, which of course is now thumb drives, SD and Micro SD. Of course in it's heyday, most people wouldn't justify buying a laserdisc player , as the quality of many of the television sets at the time, is unable to take full advantage of the crystal clear picture and sound that the players were capable of, apart from the videophiles and the prosumer market who wanted nothing less than the very best and latest technology in home entertainment.
Great "Time Capsule" you've shared here. Our household really loved having the new Pioneer LaserDisc Player that "flipped the disc" for you. Saved many trips off the couch watching our favorite films. Thanks for posting!
This is awesome. It’s always interesting to see laserdiscs and watch old vintage videos like this. I really miss video stores man! At 2:23 you can see The Fly 2 more towards the bottom of the laserdiscs.
Don't know why I didn't comment when I first saw this video years ago, but it rules! This one sits alongside the Tower Records NYC LD section tour and Zaranyzerak's LD player overview as my favorite "LaserDisc time machine" vids. Great stuff! Plus, we get to see the rare occurrence of a Sony MDP-333 player being able to push open its tray door easily!
Glad you like the video! Thanks for your kind words. The laserdisc era...if one didn't live during it (as an adult), It's difficult to fully describe what it was like. To quote Ray Liotta in "Goofellas" (1990) - "It was a glorious time."
I almost got into laserdisc at one point, but there were no stores in my area that sold a good variety of titles to justify purchasing this form of physical media. So I stuck with vhs until dvd came out. Then I started replacing all my vhs with dvd versions. Then, when Blu-ray came out, it took about a year and a half to go to Blu-ray and start replacing my dvd with Blu-ray. I only wish I knew then what I know now. Then I would have stopped at vhs and waited till blu-rays came out, and I would not have waisted my money on double dipping multiple formats.
Riddler95 The main problem was the time it took to press films to LaserDisc. It took TWO months, TWO MONTHS after the film was released to VHS to come out on LaserDisc. Additionally, it was twice as expensive compared to a VHS tape too. Because of shitty sales due to nobody having a LaserDisc player, the people that did own LaserDiscs were left in the dark on where to rent or buy them because no movie stores could be bothered to stock them. Keep in mind there was no Internet or eBay then either. LaserDisc was a victim of itself. Too much, too soon. People just weren't ready.
+MrWolfSnack Late to the party, but I had the opposite experience with LaserDisc. I started collecting in '93 and the discs were routinely released day and date with VHS releases. There were a few exceptions - Michael Mann's Heat was much-delayed on LD. And while LDs were more expensive than sell-through tapes, oftentimes you had to wait months for tapes to be available for sell-through because the rental outlets wanted their day in the sun first. Case in point - Alex Proyas' The Crow (1994). I walked into Suncoast to preorder it. LD and VHS were coming out on the exact same day, as they often did. The LD was $40, but the woman behind the counter misheard me and instead gave me the price for VHS, which was $90. It wasn't until much later that the sell-through tape hit the market for $20 or less. Rental locations with LD stock weren't as prevalent as with VHS, but even in semi-rural New England I had at least 3 options within a short driving distance. And just about every movie store, music store and department store sold discs. Even Sears had a reasonable stash. The movie stores also carried the Image Entertainment catalog books, so you could use those to special order anything that they didn't regularly stock. For a niche product, it was remarkably easy to find in the 90s.
If there are people out there time traveling and posting video on youtube please let me in on it. I'm a huge history buff and would love the opportunity.
5:05 That box right there is REALLY heavy. To give anyone who's never held a few of them an idea: 5 single disc movies weighs a little over 3 pounds, just eyeballing that box I'd say there's like 50 discs in there. That's 30 pounds of movies!
I noticed in those stores LPs were definitely phased out and the LDs were probably in the spot where the LPs previously were. 90 bucks for that Gone With The Wind set wasn’t so crazy, I can remember big DVD sets costing about the same amount circa 2001 or so.
Holy shit! laserdisk we're hella expansive & VHS typs 49. 99 smh. But to be honest, I do miss my VHS type thoes were the day's. Everyday when I get on my Netflix, Hulu or Disney+. I'm like damn these tv streaming services didn't even exist back then. I do remember my family & I had to drive alway to blockbuster & now today it's so different.
I was really young so I have no memory of stuff from then, so it’s pretty cool to see what a music store looked like in 1991. Wonder if they sold DCC Tapes during the short time they were available. (Or DAT / Minidisc machines)
Pioneer, in my opinion, made the best Laserdisc, VHS and DVD players. I only ever had a problem once with my VHS player. Though I’ve upgraded to Blu-Ray player, I have a region free Pioneer DVD player that still plays my movies immaculately. I was a kid during the LD era, but I just remembered how expensive they used to be. We used to rent from a neighborhood video store. Man, I wish those too.
RotanCam are any of these stores in the video still around or did the digital age kill them? Wow, this was the golden age for physical media and I don't think we'll ever see this again! DVD and Blu Ray are still going strong but definitely not in the limelight anymore. I'll always prefer physical over digital any day.
austin willcut I agreed on that because I love blu-ray format disc's because it has better picture and sound quality is freaking fucking epic better and you must buy an HDTV with built in surround sound features and movie enchantments features too and the ability to connect online and all blu-ray format disc's players can also play and upscaled standard DVDs too so that's a fucking epic money saver and some blu-ray format disc's players can also connect online too so look for HDTVs and blu-ray format disc's players for those fucking epic features they are so fucking worth the investment.
I just bought a 4K HDTV several months ago with built in surround sound and when I play Blu Rays on it......WOW! It sounds like a fucking movie theater if you turn it up just right LOL! Some DVDs sound pretty damn good too especially if they have a DTS sound mix, it sounds epic! I need to hook up an LD player and compare the two in sound quality because some people say Laserdisc sounds better than Blu Ray LOL! I'm not too sure about that. The picture on Blu Ray looks so detailed and crystal clear, anybody who doesn't see the differences is a fool. It is far superior and I can't believe it's not more popular with general consumers, most of them are still stuck in the past with DVD. I think that's being stubborn and not embracing new tech, DVD isn't bad but it's fuckin' old tech now just like Laserdisc. I still enjoy DVD but Blu Ray is the definitive way to watch movies right now!
Well, as a Laserdisc collector myself, I've got to admit, this is something you don't see everyday, and it certainly brings back memories of the way it was. I love the fact that you asked about rental stock - because that IS THE WAY I 1st experienced Laserdisc, via Rental's . @ $3-4 bucks a night. - What camcorder did you use to record this - Hi8 ? Looks to clean for VHS - in 91.
It was VHS recorded in SP mode. I used my brother's S-VHS Curtis Mathes camcorder, but only had access to a blank VHS tape at the time. As I mentioned in the description, it was all shot chronologically that day and edited in-camera. No external edits (VCR to VCR). Glad you enjoyed it!
The description of the video is directly under the title of the video. You have to click on the small arrow icon (or, on a mobile device, click on “more”) to expand/reveal it.
They still are if you like to collect Shout Factory, Arrow Video releases, Vinegar Syndrome, or other boutique labels. The mainstream major studio stuff is pretty cheap now though.
Wow. Almost looks like a person from 2016 traveled back in time and recorded this, especially due to the exceptional visual quality . The right questions were asked and prices were zoomed in on too, making me wonder if time travel does exist. I'm very curious about this video.
RotanCam I read it. Interesting . I have also been a collector of LDs over the years. Great to see LD in stores back in the day. A real sense of time lost came over me. Thanks for posting.
I miss the days i had to wait months for a movie to be released in Home Video, a tape or a Laserdisc costed a fortune and the DVD crap wasn't here! I see the DVD as the mother of piracy, it was so versatile and cheap it was obviosly created for the majority of the people to have access to media. But then Bly Ray was another thing...and 4K even more special. Please keep things that way, more exclusive.
+Reference Channel DVD is food for my eyes and brain. I couldnt live without my movie watching daily, getting away from this shitty reality and shitty people. I dont have LD player, but i ve got 6-7 Laserdisc movies.
Is the company in this video still in business and what was the original reason for making the video was it to promote laser discs and the CD store or was it just a home video I would like to know this and anything else about this video because it is the best original laserdisc 📀 video I have seen 💿
That would have been fun to stock and go through all of those new disc's I'm sure the later releases were more expensive because Dolby digital was later added with bonus scenes from movies early laserdisc from 1978 or 79 have laser rot and are deteriorating
Look up the Jaws box set! I got one on eBay. I don't remember how or what I paid for it but it looks like a small pizza box. I always joke about the guy who brought that home to his family. It's cave format so you have to flip it over five times before the movies even over. It's a fun format to play around with but the quality was never perfect and the prices were outrageous. Any good quality movie was usually over thirty bucks. A lot of times the transfers were terrible and the discs had defects. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas it's the best-looking LaserDisc I've ever seen personally
Wonder if this place even stocked prerecorded stuff on Beta? Probably not, though they probably could have been able to special order movies on Beta at the time.
@@almostliterally593 _"Beta was already long dead by then"_ Yes and no. Up until around the early-mid 1990s, you could special order movies on Beta from most, if not all, of the major motion picture companies. There do exist prerecorded Beta copies of features like "The Lion King," "Coneheads," and so on. Blank cassettes, made by Sony, were still available from retailers still willing to carry them. You could also even still buy new Beta VCRs back then, though usually only from a special order made with a Sony dealer and with only two models available to choose from (SL-S600, SL-HF2000). But, yeah, Beta was not mainstream by that time, which was why buying copies of newer movies on Beta or a new Beta VCR required a special order as most retailers would obviously be reluctant to keep a stock of such products in their inventory.
@@Knightmessenger No. It's what I've read and heard. Considering that there are copies of mid 90s movies that were released on prerecorded Beta, however... ua-cam.com/video/YaBRhb5HljY/v-deo.html
@@TimBoyd2012 You could try using the Shazam app on your smartphone, but I think Santana is playing in the background at B.B.’s (the first store), and C+C Music Factory is playing at Tracks (the last store in the video. It’s whatever was playing in the store at the time I shot the video. I did not add any music in post-production because there was no post-production. This entire video was shot in sequence and edited in camera as it happened by me pressing the “start/stop recording” button. Read the description of this video for details.
interesting video.....I have one movie that was shown in the video on DVD Pretty Woman it was a new release then huh????!!!!!...at the beginning of the video I saw a laserdisc I would have gotten if I had had a player the first Cannonball Run that was a funny movie....I was laughing at it when I saw it on television
I remember the theater experience of seeing Cannonball Run back in 1981. it was a huge family event as my mother and her cousin took me and her kids i.e. my cousins to go see the movie. At a theater that had a previous showing of the movie (with one screen) so we had to wait for our turn. Agreed it was a funny and enjoyable movie. Still remember that flick and when i hired its sequel Cannonball Run II, from the video shop when it was my birthday party in 1984. Still so sad its director Hal Needham passed way recently, as we know the film was so influential that actor; Jackie Chan himself. Used the end credit side bloopers for the end of his movies ever since!
HoorayTV21 Criterion laserdiscs were always more expensive. They had the best transfers and included tons of supplemental material not available anywhere else. Criterion’s box set of CE3K cost $124.95 ($248.18 in 2020 USD) because it was a new transfer supervised by Spielberg, and it was presented in the CAV (Standard Play) format, and it included tons of supplemental materials, including: Exclusive restoration of the original 1977 version of Close Encounters, with one shot from the Special Edition that was included and 3 scenes which remain deleted from his reconstruction of the original version at Mr. Spielberg's request; All footage from both the 1977 and 1980 releases - program your LaserDisc player to watch the version you prefer; New digital video transfer, supervised by director Steven Spielberg, presented entirely in the full-feature CAV standard play format; New Dolby Surround soundtrack created from the original 4-channel mix; Steven Spielberg describes "letterboxing"; Making Close Encounters: An interactive documentary featuring video interviews with director Steven Spielberg, special effects wiz Douglas Trumbull, composer John Williams, and other principals, along with over 1,000 still frames from different aspects of the production. Also included are screenplay excerpts of deleted scenes, publicity materials for the Original and Special Edition, and more.
Nope. I did, however, have fellow students in that class come up to me on campus a year or so later and tell me that thanks to my presentation on laserdiscs, they were more aware of films on VHS presented "pan-and-scan" and how much of the image they were missing as opposed to films on laserdisc being presented in their original theatrical aspect ratio via letterboxed, "widescreen editions". Mission accomplished.
I'd be interested in how you used it in the speech. You could not simply play the whole video as part of an in-class presentation unless your assignment was for a 45 minute speech.
I played the video, as I recall, about midway through my speech. I then followed it up with my final statement(s) why laserdisc was a superior format for viewing movies at home. The video is only 8min. 34sec. The entire speech, including the video, was about 20min.
What isn't mentioned here is that this was not new technology. It only had a couple of years left of shelf life. LaserDisc were first on the market in early middle 80s. The LaserDisc was expensive, heavy/bulky, scratched easily and if dropped were fragile and shattered and the edges chipped easily if banged into. This technology was gone even before DVD arrived on the scene. Even VHS would outlive LaserDisc.
Laserdisc came out in the late 70's after the demise of CED discs. It was the next step for the technology. 1991 was when Laserdisc started their downfall and they died out about 1999/2000. It had roughly a 23 year lifespan where it just floated in and out of purgatory. Only severe hifi nerds bothered with the format as it was too costly for the lower and middle class buyers.
@@RotanCam By the way, thank you for filming this video. I grew up in Kernersville, NC, loved Greensboro, and often visited BB's and CD's Superstore. I have so many memories, and seeing this video was like going back in time!
What I love most about this video is to see those stores. Look at the lights, decor and ambience. Even the places had more personality. I wish I could go back to the early 90s.
Love the C+C music factory playing in the background. Btw I remember Mom playing this on her double deck tape player. My favorite childhood memories are taking a blank tape and copying the entire C+C music factory tape and gave a copy to a girl in my 2nd grade class. Kids today will never understand the 90's technology. ;/
Very cool. Nostalgia flows with this one.
That guy was right, laserdisc was the wave of the future but only phase 1 of it! Little did people know in 1991 we would have DVD/Blu Ray/4K Blu Ray all being sold at once while competing against digital download/streaming movies/Netflix for the future of home entertainment LOL! The future can take really funny turns.
I miss laserdiscs, but I sure don't miss their prices!
this footage is pure gold thanks for sharing a moment in time
The c+c music factory music is a great touch. That song is the 90s vibe. So cool to see this
I remember paying some of these prices in the 90s.And still have my collection and player to this day. Cool Video!!!!!!
Must have had a bunch of wealthy people living in the area at the time, for the sales of lasedisc to be good. A friend at work, recalls around 1992, his uncle at the time, was a trial lawyer, purchased the latest model for around $1200, has the biggest and latest tv, the best in class hi-fi sound system, invited him and a bunch of his other friends over one weekend, and every one of them were astounded by the crisp clear sound and video they had never seen or heard of, even at the theater uptown. Laserdisc may have been a failure from a commercial standpoint, but from a technological perspective, it was the future, in that it paved the way for CD's, DVDS, and blue ray, which of course is now thumb drives, SD and Micro SD. Of course in it's heyday, most people wouldn't justify buying a laserdisc player , as the quality of many of the television sets at the time, is unable to take full advantage of the crystal clear picture and sound that the players were capable of, apart from the videophiles and the prosumer market who wanted nothing less than the very best and latest technology in home entertainment.
Plenty people still buy dvds & Blu-Rays. Many stream or download but physical will thankfully always be here.
nice video you can feel the Nostalgia
I LOVE IT! Born in 1984, started collecting LD way past its prime (2005). Wish I could have known the format in its heyday.
Great "Time Capsule" you've shared here. Our household really loved having the new Pioneer LaserDisc Player that "flipped the disc" for you. Saved many trips off the couch watching our favorite films. Thanks for posting!
Growing up in the 90s in the former USSR I didn't knew about existence of Laserdisc, I missed a lot
Nostalgia
This was just an awesome video. I collected laserdiscs starting in around 1995 till DVD was released a few years later.
retrotelevision1 Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. It was, indeed, a glorious time.
This is awesome. It’s always interesting to see laserdiscs and watch old vintage videos like this. I really miss video stores man! At 2:23 you can see The Fly 2 more towards the bottom of the laserdiscs.
What's strange is that The Fly films never got a widescreen LD release.
this a sweet time capsule
Nostalgia!
that was cool seeing them all new and sealed
Don't know why I didn't comment when I first saw this video years ago, but it rules! This one sits alongside the Tower Records NYC LD section tour and Zaranyzerak's LD player overview as my favorite "LaserDisc time machine" vids. Great stuff!
Plus, we get to see the rare occurrence of a Sony MDP-333 player being able to push open its tray door easily!
Glad you like the video! Thanks for your kind words. The laserdisc era...if one didn't live during it (as an adult), It's difficult to fully describe what it was like. To quote Ray Liotta in "Goofellas" (1990) - "It was a glorious time."
My pleasure. Glad you enjoyed it!
I almost got into laserdisc at one point, but there were no stores in my area that sold a good variety of titles to justify purchasing this form of physical media. So I stuck with vhs until dvd came out. Then I started replacing all my vhs with dvd versions. Then, when Blu-ray came out, it took about a year and a half to go to Blu-ray and start replacing my dvd with Blu-ray. I only wish I knew then what I know now. Then I would have stopped at vhs and waited till blu-rays came out, and I would not have waisted my money on double dipping multiple formats.
Great video 👍🏻 takes me back 😊
Riddler95
The main problem was the time it took to press films to LaserDisc. It took TWO months, TWO MONTHS after the film was released to VHS to come out on LaserDisc. Additionally, it was twice as expensive compared to a VHS tape too.
Because of shitty sales due to nobody having a LaserDisc player, the people that did own LaserDiscs were left in the dark on where to rent or buy them because no movie stores could be bothered to stock them. Keep in mind there was no Internet or eBay then either.
LaserDisc was a victim of itself. Too much, too soon. People just weren't ready.
+MrWolfSnack Late to the party, but I had the opposite experience with LaserDisc. I started collecting in '93 and the discs were routinely released day and date with VHS releases. There were a few exceptions - Michael Mann's Heat was much-delayed on LD. And while LDs were more expensive than sell-through tapes, oftentimes you had to wait months for tapes to be available for sell-through because the rental outlets wanted their day in the sun first.
Case in point - Alex Proyas' The Crow (1994). I walked into Suncoast to preorder it. LD and VHS were coming out on the exact same day, as they often did. The LD was $40, but the woman behind the counter misheard me and instead gave me the price for VHS, which was $90. It wasn't until much later that the sell-through tape hit the market for $20 or less.
Rental locations with LD stock weren't as prevalent as with VHS, but even in semi-rural New England I had at least 3 options within a short driving distance. And just about every movie store, music store and department store sold discs. Even Sears had a reasonable stash. The movie stores also carried the Image Entertainment catalog books, so you could use those to special order anything that they didn't regularly stock.
For a niche product, it was remarkably easy to find in the 90s.
If there are people out there time traveling and posting video on youtube please let me in on it. I'm a huge history buff and would love the opportunity.
I love this videos thanks for sharing!
great vid!! brings back a lot of good memories
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
5:05 That box right there is REALLY heavy. To give anyone who's never held a few of them an idea: 5 single disc movies weighs a little over 3 pounds, just eyeballing that box I'd say there's like 50 discs in there. That's 30 pounds of movies!
At 5:48 the other store has a laserdisc for The Doors. Too cool 😎
I noticed in those stores LPs were definitely phased out and the LDs were probably in the spot where the LPs previously were.
90 bucks for that Gone With The Wind set wasn’t so crazy, I can remember big DVD sets costing about the same amount circa 2001 or so.
Gone With The Wind 1940 and G and $20.00
Holy shit! laserdisk we're hella expansive & VHS typs 49. 99 smh. But to be honest, I do miss my VHS type thoes were the day's. Everyday when I get on my Netflix, Hulu or Disney+. I'm like damn these tv streaming services didn't even exist back then. I do remember my family & I had to drive alway to blockbuster & now today it's so different.
I was really young so I have no memory of stuff from then, so it’s pretty cool to see what a music store looked like in 1991. Wonder if they sold DCC Tapes during the short time they were available. (Or DAT / Minidisc machines)
Love that you made this!
Pioneer, in my opinion, made the best Laserdisc, VHS and DVD players. I only ever had a problem once with my VHS player. Though I’ve upgraded to Blu-Ray player, I have a region free Pioneer DVD player that still plays my movies immaculately. I was a kid during the LD era, but I just remembered how expensive they used to be. We used to rent from a neighborhood video store. Man, I wish those too.
I've had a Toshiba VCR for many years that still works great. Just be sure to use a tape head cleaner once in a while. ;)
RotanCam are any of these stores in the video still around or did the digital age kill them? Wow, this was the golden age for physical media and I don't think we'll ever see this again! DVD and Blu Ray are still going strong but definitely not in the limelight anymore. I'll always prefer physical over digital any day.
austin willcut I agreed on that because I love blu-ray format disc's because it has better picture and sound quality is freaking fucking epic better and you must buy an HDTV with built in surround sound features and movie enchantments features too and the ability to connect online and all blu-ray format disc's players can also play and upscaled standard DVDs too so that's a fucking epic money saver and some blu-ray format disc's players can also connect online too so look for HDTVs and blu-ray format disc's players for those fucking epic features they are so fucking worth the investment.
I just bought a 4K HDTV several months ago with built in surround sound and when I play Blu Rays on it......WOW! It sounds like a fucking movie theater if you turn it up just right LOL! Some DVDs sound pretty damn good too especially if they have a DTS sound mix, it sounds epic! I need to hook up an LD player and compare the two in sound quality because some people say Laserdisc sounds better than Blu Ray LOL! I'm not too sure about that. The picture on Blu Ray looks so detailed and crystal clear, anybody who doesn't see the differences is a fool. It is far superior and I can't believe it's not more popular with general consumers, most of them are still stuck in the past with DVD. I think that's being stubborn and not embracing new tech, DVD isn't bad but it's fuckin' old tech now just like Laserdisc. I still enjoy DVD but Blu Ray is the definitive way to watch movies right now!
Sadly, all the stores you see in the video are gone. They were my go-to stores for Laserdisc in Greensboro, NC back then.
take me back to 1991 dear lord.
Well, as a Laserdisc collector myself, I've got to admit, this is something you don't see everyday, and it certainly brings back memories of the way it was. I love the fact that you asked about rental stock - because that IS THE WAY I 1st experienced Laserdisc, via Rental's . @ $3-4 bucks a night. - What camcorder did you use to record this - Hi8 ? Looks to clean for VHS - in 91.
It was VHS recorded in SP mode. I used my brother's S-VHS Curtis Mathes camcorder, but only had access to a blank VHS tape at the time. As I mentioned in the description, it was all shot chronologically that day and edited in-camera. No external edits (VCR to VCR). Glad you enjoyed it!
Thats fucking awesome.
What was the original intent of this film was it to promote laser discs at a local store 📀💿or what was it used for 📼
Read the description of the video. I explained why it was made.
The description of the video is directly under the title of the video. You have to click on the small arrow icon (or, on a mobile device, click on “more”) to expand/reveal it.
Do you still have a laserdisc collection today 📀 and what do you think of Blu ray and 4k I would like to know from a master 🎬
Awesome
awesome,Pioneer CLD-3080 epic!
1300 laserdiscs... DROOL!
I'm almost to that number in my collection, rofl!
Streaming will never be as good as physical disc in your hand.
That 1991 smell
Started collecting laser discs in 2006 still hunting a pioneer laseractive sega system
man home releases where expensive back then.
They still are if you like to collect Shout Factory, Arrow Video releases, Vinegar Syndrome, or other boutique labels. The mainstream major studio stuff is pretty cheap now though.
Wow. Almost looks like a person from 2016 traveled back in time and recorded this, especially due to the exceptional visual quality . The right questions were asked and prices were zoomed in on too, making me wonder if time travel does exist. I'm very curious about this video.
AJ Steele Did you read my description of the video? It explains why and how I shot it.
RotanCam No. where is the description written?
AJ Steele The description is directly under the title of the video. You have to click on the small arrow icon to expand/reveal it.
RotanCam I read it. Interesting . I have also been a collector of LDs over the years. Great to see LD in stores back in the day. A real sense of time lost came over me. Thanks for posting.
I miss the days i had to wait months for a movie to be released in Home Video, a tape or a Laserdisc costed a fortune and the DVD crap wasn't here!
I see the DVD as the mother of piracy, it was so versatile and cheap it was obviosly created for the majority of the people to have access to media.
But then Bly Ray was another thing...and 4K even more special. Please keep things that way, more exclusive.
+Reference Channel DVD is food for my eyes and brain. I couldnt live without my movie watching daily, getting away from this shitty reality and shitty people. I dont have LD player, but i ve got 6-7 Laserdisc movies.
0:58 This Pioneer LD player AweSOME!!! What is this model??? Tell me please!!!
Hey Man!!! You right!!! It is awesome model, i have had this model...
This is Pioneer CLD - 3080
@@moviemusicobsession7690 Thanks!!! really helped
Featured today on LaserDisc Database's forum: forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=9283
Julien
If they only knew about Blu-ray and 4k LoL
HD-DVD!!!
Is the company in this video still in business and what was the original reason for making the video was it to promote laser discs and the CD store or was it just a home video I would like to know this and anything else about this video because it is the best original laserdisc 📀 video I have seen 💿
Thanks for your kind words. I made the video. Read the description (underneath the video) for details as to how and why I made it.
*CD Superstore went out of business many, many years ago. They were a regional chain, I think. Based in the Southeast (United States).
That would have been fun to stock and go through all of those new disc's I'm sure the later releases were more expensive because Dolby digital was later added with bonus scenes from movies early laserdisc from 1978 or 79 have laser rot and are deteriorating
Laserdisc were the size of a pizza
Look up the Jaws box set! I got one on eBay. I don't remember how or what I paid for it but it looks like a small pizza box. I always joke about the guy who brought that home to his family. It's cave format so you have to flip it over five times before the movies even over. It's a fun format to play around with but the quality was never perfect and the prices were outrageous. Any good quality movie was usually over thirty bucks. A lot of times the transfers were terrible and the discs had defects. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas it's the best-looking LaserDisc I've ever seen personally
Wonder if this place even stocked prerecorded stuff on Beta?
Probably not, though they probably could have been able to special order movies on Beta at the time.
Beta was already long dead by then
@@almostliterally593 _"Beta was already long dead by then"_
Yes and no. Up until around the early-mid 1990s, you could special order movies on Beta from most, if not all, of the major motion picture companies. There do exist prerecorded Beta copies of features like "The Lion King," "Coneheads," and so on.
Blank cassettes, made by Sony, were still available from retailers still willing to carry them.
You could also even still buy new Beta VCRs back then, though usually only from a special order made with a Sony dealer and with only two models available to choose from (SL-S600, SL-HF2000).
But, yeah, Beta was not mainstream by that time, which was why buying copies of newer movies on Beta or a new Beta VCR required a special order as most retailers would obviously be reluctant to keep a stock of such products in their inventory.
@@Watcher3223 lion king on betamax? Are there any pictures of this mythical object anywhere?
@@Knightmessenger No. It's what I've read and heard. Considering that there are copies of mid 90s movies that were released on prerecorded Beta, however...
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What are the songs playing in the background?
@@TimBoyd2012 You could try using the Shazam app on your smartphone, but I think Santana is playing in the background at B.B.’s (the first store), and C+C Music Factory is playing at Tracks (the last store in the video. It’s whatever was playing in the store at the time I shot the video. I did not add any music in post-production because there was no post-production. This entire video was shot in sequence and edited in camera as it happened by me pressing the “start/stop recording” button. Read the description of this video for details.
interesting video.....I have one movie that was shown in the video on DVD Pretty Woman it was a new release then huh????!!!!!...at the beginning of the video I saw a laserdisc I would have gotten if I had had a player the first Cannonball Run that was a funny movie....I was laughing at it when I saw it on television
I remember the theater experience of seeing Cannonball Run back in 1981. it was a huge family event as my mother and her cousin took me and her kids i.e. my cousins to go see the movie. At a theater that had a previous showing of the movie (with one screen) so we had to wait for our turn.
Agreed it was a funny and enjoyable movie. Still remember that flick and when i hired its sequel Cannonball Run II, from the video shop when it was my birthday party in 1984. Still so sad its director Hal Needham passed way recently, as we know the film was so influential that actor; Jackie Chan himself. Used the end credit side bloopers for the end of his movies ever since!
Why is the close encounters release $125? How many discs was this? lol
HoorayTV21 Criterion laserdiscs were always more expensive. They had the best transfers and included tons of supplemental material not available anywhere else. Criterion’s box set of CE3K cost $124.95 ($248.18 in 2020 USD) because it was a new transfer supervised by Spielberg, and it was presented in the CAV (Standard Play) format, and it included tons of supplemental materials, including: Exclusive restoration of the original 1977 version of Close Encounters, with one shot from the Special Edition that was included and 3 scenes which remain deleted from his reconstruction of the original version at Mr. Spielberg's request; All footage from both the 1977 and 1980 releases - program your LaserDisc player to watch the version you prefer; New digital video transfer, supervised by director Steven Spielberg, presented entirely in the full-feature CAV standard play format; New Dolby Surround soundtrack created from the original 4-channel mix; Steven Spielberg describes "letterboxing"; Making Close Encounters: An interactive documentary featuring video interviews with director Steven Spielberg, special effects wiz Douglas Trumbull, composer John Williams, and other principals, along with over 1,000 still frames from different aspects of the production. Also included are screenplay excerpts of deleted scenes, publicity materials for the Original and Special Edition, and more.
But a tape is still at the place you left off years after you put it back on the shelf.
Did anyone in the audience point out that advantage of tapes?
Nope. I did, however, have fellow students in that class come up to me on campus a year or so later and tell me that thanks to my presentation on laserdiscs, they were more aware of films on VHS presented "pan-and-scan" and how much of the image they were missing as opposed to films on laserdisc being presented in their original theatrical aspect ratio via letterboxed, "widescreen editions". Mission accomplished.
I'd be interested in how you used it in the speech. You could not simply play the whole video as part of an in-class presentation unless your assignment was for a 45 minute speech.
I played the video, as I recall, about midway through my speech. I then followed it up with my final statement(s) why laserdisc was a superior format for viewing movies at home. The video is only 8min. 34sec. The entire speech, including the video, was about 20min.
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What isn't mentioned here is that this was not new technology. It only had a couple of years left of shelf life. LaserDisc were first on the market in early middle 80s. The LaserDisc was expensive, heavy/bulky, scratched easily and if dropped were fragile and shattered and the edges chipped easily if banged into. This technology was gone even before DVD arrived on the scene. Even VHS would outlive LaserDisc.
Laserdisc came out in the late 70's after the demise of CED discs. It was the next step for the technology. 1991 was when Laserdisc started their downfall and they died out about 1999/2000. It had roughly a 23 year lifespan where it just floated in and out of purgatory. Only severe hifi nerds bothered with the format as it was too costly for the lower and middle class buyers.
Um, Laserdisc movies were being made in the US until the year 2000. In Japan they were made up to 2009 and did very well there.
@@MrWolfSnack CED didn't even hit the market until 1981, Discovision came out in 1978. Otherwise you're right.
No. The others were right. It lasted, in the U.S. till the end of the 90s. Overseas, it was still going strong.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind... $125 at Tracks. Jesus. That's nuts.
$79.95-$124.99 was the average retail price of all Criterion Collection CAV boxsets back then. They were worth every penny.
@@RotanCam By the way, thank you for filming this video. I grew up in Kernersville, NC, loved Greensboro, and often visited BB's and CD's Superstore. I have so many memories, and seeing this video was like going back in time!
@@kupwavThanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it. It’s definitely a time capsule.
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind 1980 and C and $20.00
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