I know I've heard the name Starship Industries come up before - where were they out of?

@@Culturedog I I'll have to see if I can hunt down one of their catalogs. I know that the most recent catalog that I have from them had the starship U.S.S. Voyager from the Star Trek series on the cover.

+Esteban Medaglia Thanks so much - that's awesome to hear! Enjoy that new player! And thank for watching the vids. Glad you enjoy 'em!

Thank you! The player I got is a Pioneer CLD-D604. never owned a Pioneer LD player before, so I can't wait.

***** Very cool - that's a nice player. Should power through a lot of use for sure!

MrBuc128 Pretty sure I hit that store at one point or another too when I lived up in Boston in the mid-to-late 90s. Used to get a lot of CDs at Lechmere and loved looking through their clearance section of A/V equipment.

Oh yeah! I remember watching that AC-3 one the other day! Looking forward to the next vid!

Yeah, someone pointed that out to me after the fact - not sure why I didn't figure that out! haha!

It's okay. I should also make you aware that the 2 Disc 30th Anniversary edition of Jaws and the Blu Ray have the full 2 Hour documentary on it.

Yeah, I still love that box set - great film!

+William Railey Interesting! Still seems curious in some regards, as the boxes are totally different (the pressing with the book and CD was much thicker) and a lot of the printed details (catalog no., which sides are standard and/or extended play, etc.) outside of the stickered area don't match either - so it's not like they could have repurposed old boxes and just slapped on a sticker to cover over the missing special features. Maybe whoever redesigned the new box forgot to revise the special features listing and they didn't notice until after it had been printed.

I did finally snag a copy about a year or so later - you can check it out at about the 19:00 mark in this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fLZ2odinud3XlX0.html So glad I was able to pick one up!

Ah, okay. Thank you for the reply. It's always been something that I wanted to watch. I plan on getting a copy soon - of both versions - if I can.

Thanks man! Always love seeing more LD videos, so bring 'em on! Thanks for the Godfather info. That makes sense. Whenever I see them for sale people are just trying to hustle them as being in gold jackets only because they're "extra rare", but I knew there had to be something else to it!

+TGOTR Yeah, I wonder if some of those good Aliens discs are from the Mitsubishi pressing. You can check the mint markings on the inner hub of the discs to tell the difference. There'll probably be two sets of markings - a Mitsubishi disc would probably look something like this: C1504-85-1 A 05 and A41B11749 and a rot-prone Pioneer something like this: 58-125A1-11 and 24B00519. The numbers may be way different, but the structure should be the same. In any case, glad to hear you were able to piece together a clean copy! I hate having the Bond films out of order too - I bought those first 3 Blu-ray boxed sets when they came out and it sucked how the titles were all scattered throughout the series. I recently finally bought a bunch of empty cases so I can choose some good custom artwork and put together a streamlined, chronological collection.

I made my own artwork for my bond sets a long time ago.

Funny you should mention that particular release - I just found a copy locally a few months ago! I definitely need to update my box sets video, since the collection has grown quite a bit since I uploaded this one.

@@Culturedog I have the same cut in widescreen on VHS, but widescreen on VHS the aspect ration was sometimes too tight.

Yeah, even my copies have a bit of wear from lots of moves and plenty of usage. Tough to find pristine copies out there! Look forward to checking out your vid!

Thanks for the kind comments, James! Feedback like this makes my channel endeavor completely worthwhile. Thanks for watching the videos and subscribing - glad to hear I have stoked the laserdisc flame a bit. I'll be filming a few more videos over the long weekend. Very cool that you collect wax cylinders. And I thought laserdiscs were hard to find in the wild! It must be really hard tripping across cylinders without buying from established dealers/enthusiasts

Culturedog You are most welcomed, Cd. ' Am very pleased to know that more-still is in the near offing. I am sure that you, yourself, are already aware of the very fine site dedicated to all things DiscoVision but, perhaps some of your viewer/commenters are not and so, here I shall attach the link going to it: www.blamld.com/DiscoVision/index.htm Honestly, their logo is a thing past exquisite and the entire of the first page constitutes a veritable study in black, gray and form, I do believe. While reading over the "DiscoVision History: The Beginning" part, I was reminded of a funny story shared with myself by one of those "co-founders" of Gauss Electrophysics, but not included within the narrative. It would seem that - way back when - he was to meet with 'an executive' from MCA for a business lunch at the Beverly Hills Hotel. He was there early and at the table already (as I recall it), and in walks Lew Wasserman himself, for a one-on-one! Spontaneously he knew with who and what he was dealing if not exactly the why part. (Wasserman was then rather a public figure being unmistakable with his trade-mark glasses and had a reputation for being a razor-sharp negotiator.) The event proceeded apace and ended amicably. Key was, that the stakes (patent ones!) were so high that L.W. and his associates wanted nothing to possibly go wrong even slightly, and so he attended to this most delicate matter personally and, as is so rightly said, 'the rest IS history'. Seemingly, the Gauss patents were ones fundamental, and that was why all the special attention ' paid to the deal at that point, that was to be made subsequently. With every re-telling of the tale that I heard over the decades since, his surprise at suddenly dealing with 'the man' himself was a point for much levity. NOTE: Before viewing the site, be sure to attend to "Browser Calibration," showing in red, at the bottom.

James Miller Great story - thanks for sharing!!

1. No, it's more scattered and interactive (multiple audio tracks etc.) It's weird, Criterion never seemed to be much into creating narrative documentaries for their titles for the most part. 2. I knew I'd seen them somewhere before, so that's cool. Reminds me of when Sony started replicating the old Columbia Records LP label on their CDs in the 90s. 3. I'm guessing that since the title had been released/re-released so much already at the time the Signature Collection came out, that they figured they'd focus on newer titles and catalog titles that hadn't seen much love. I'm still surprised that the original CAV box of Jurassic Park didn't have any extras. They really should have thrown in the Making Of disc for some satisfying supplements.

Culturedog I agree that the CAV Jurassic Park set should've had supplemental material. But I guess there wasn't enough space for it unless they made it an amalgamation of CAV and CLV.

Yup, I show it in this video shortly after the 29 minute mark. Minus the CD though, I think, which I had accidentally left with my other soundtrack discs. I'll have to do a spotlight video on it at some point. I snagged it for peanuts back when Ken Cranes Laserdisc was liquidating their LD gear at the end of the format's sales life. I've got the old 2002 2-disc Limited Collector's Edition DVD set too, but haven't picked up the Blu-Ray yet. Definitely on the "to get" list though.

You should do a more in depth view of that set. I would definitely get it if I had a laserdisc player. I have the Blu Ray, the 2-Disc Limited Collector's Edition and the Ultimate Gift Set. I also own the original release VHS release from 1988 and the 1996 THX remastered VHS as well.

That one came out in 1996.

dvdmike007 Oh yeah, he's the tech/video wizard dude! Don't know why I forgot that was him. Strange Days is a great flick - got two copies on LD and one on DVD, which I should get rid of since it's pretty much a nonanamorphic laserdisc transfer dropped onto a DVD. That movie should totally have a Criterion Collection special edition release.

I have the NTSC laser, non dts and the cut UK dvd and just bought the German Ultrabit bluray. It's really underrated I need to find a cheap dts laser now I finally have a player that can handle it. Love the channel, I need to redo my LD collection video Soon.

dvdmike007 Thanks! Bring it on, I love watching collection vids! I need to get a multi-region Blu-Ray player, otherwise I'd be tempted to import that German disc for sure. Would be nice to grab it on DTS laserdisc too, but I'll have to settle for AC3 in the meantime. DTS discs are always so pricy, and I'm too cheap! :-D

Yeah, I'm actually going to devote a full video to Cameron's LD releases at some point - just because there's so much rumor and misinformation going around from that period, and a lot of people miss the differences that Super 35 brought to the table compared to transfers of films that were shot in scope. Even though Cameron spelled it out pretty clearly in the essay he wrote for the Abyss P&S boxed set. It's weird how some titles were harder to find in widescreen - I was always looking for letterboxed copies of The Lost Boys and Black Rain, but it seemed that every single shop only stocked the pan and scan versions. indeed, that Jurassic Park DTS disc is earth-shattering! I've been tempted to start collecting all the DTS LD releases, but they're fairly overpriced for the most part. I think I'll just pick them up here and there as deals come along.

Yeah, I had to wait for my shop to order the widescreen version of the Abyss box set. I also believe that was one of the first LDs to be THX certified? I could be wrong about that. Anyway, great set.Those DTS discs are still overpriced? Hahaha!! They were overpriced back in the day when I picked mine up. I waited just long enough to decide I wanted it that it was out of print, of course.

Oh, and that would be awesome if you did a Cameron LD video...

Yup, The Abyss was the first official THX-certified release. Supposedly Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country was a THX stealth test, but it was never marketed as such. That disc does look great though. Yeah, the collectors are still keeping the DTS LD prices high. I made sure to grab a small pile when Ken Cranes went out of business. Some titles are more than others, but finding them cheap is a waiting game for sure.

I wonder if those collectors know they can probably get the same movie in DTS on blu for cheaper than LD, and with a much better picture. I guess I can understand the devotion to format, though. I used to listen to Art Bell all the time on the radio and Ken Crane was a big sponsor of his, especially for radios. Anyway, because of that I knew who Ken Crane was, but never ordered from him. There was also a brick-and-mortar store, wasn't there?

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed them! That's actually going to be my next video once I finalize my collection series - I'm going to do a run through of all the terminology and other laserdisc essentials. CLV is Constant Linear Velocity (or Extended Play) and CAV is Constant Angular Velocity (or Standard Play), but the basic pertinent info is: With CAV, you can only fit 30 minutes of video content on each disc side. But, it offers freeze frame and slow motion capability. A lot of special editions used CAV discs to store written material (like screenplays) on individual frames that you can step through one at a time with your remote. Also, people used to like it for big, visually-driven films where you might want to watch parts at a slower speed etc. CLV had the benefit of being able to fit 60 minutes of video on each side of the disc, but it lost all of CAV's frame control abilities. Though there were some higher-end players with "digital effects" that would allow you to do perform still frame actions using a digital memory.

Yes and no - THX didn't really do anything in terms of generating the source material, they just oversaw the overall operation and added special test patterns to the unused fringes of the signal so that they could check for corruption after each step in the transfer process all the way through to mastering etc. I've heard some claims that they demanded digital noise reduction in order to meet certification, but that seems less likely than DNR just being very popular around the time THX started certifying discs. On the negative side, you could theoretically have a garbage print transferred and mastered meticulously, and become THX certified by default because the horrible looking/sounding source material wasn't corrupted by anything during the transfer process. This basically came to be with the notorious Highlander DVD - which was mostly the result of THX having no idea how to handle DVD certification at first and thinking they could just follow their LD playbook. On the positive side, studios didn't really pony up for THX certification unless they had a high profile title that they wanted to treat right - so in that case, the disc was probably always going to be transferred well, THX or not. Interestingly, a lot of THX Dolby Digital titles were later reissued as DTS laserdiscs without the THX badge, but featured the same level of A/V quality, if not better in some regards. So while THX didn't officially add quality to anything, for LD it really did work as a reasonable guarantee that the disc was transferred and mastered well.

Thanks for the reply. Also, as a sidenote, I love your videos, and you have a pretty awesome collection. I have about 40 in mine, including some Criterions (Taxi Driver, Dr. Strangelove, 2001, to name a few) as well as the Star Wars definitive collection. I'd hope to someday have a collection as vast as yours, if I could just get my wallet on board with that, but keep up the great content!

Culturedog I have that old 10th anniversary THX DVD of Highlander, it looks ok(but still bad) on a CRT but on an LED TV it looks absolutely HORRIBLE!!! It's also non anamorphic which makes the picture even worse! The transfer looks like it was sourced from someone's moldy, damp basement and reprocessed through muddy water, it just reeks of incompetence! The 10th ann. VHS looked WAY better than this and they were charging people 30 to 40 bucks back in the late 90's for DVDs like this lol! Early DVDs were pretty bad(I have quite a few of them!) but this was just horrific quality control, the picture looks defective as well. Was the Laserdisc version better?

They can be pretty tough to find without using ebay, but good luck! Hope you find one!

Yeah, there's a very cool box from Japan. I believe Germany also had a collection in PAL, but I've only ever seen the Japanese one for sale. Would definitely like to pick that up someday. So weird that there were never boxed sets for the Back to the Future and Indiana Jones trilogies in the U.S. but there were in Japan. Those would have sold like crazy! The individually-released letterboxed U.S. discs for Back to the Future I, II & III are pretty decent though. I used to watch mine a lot back in the day.

Culturedog I don't even wanna imagine what a trilogy Laserdisc set would've costed in Japan.

It's coming - this one's ridiculously outdated now!

Do it! The MGM CAV is gorgeous! I know, I'm a bad influence!

Culturedog goddamn it, now I may have to.

+Patrick Roach I'm still late to the game on a lot of obscure (and some super popular) stuff I've been meaning to check out, but my favorite old school heavy hitter shows are Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Star Blazers/Space Battleship Yamato, Mobile Suit Gundam, and Dirty Pair. For 90s stuff I love Cowboy Bebop, Macross Plus, and Serial Experiments Lain. On the movie front, Akira's probably always going to be my favorite. Though I also enjoyed Ghost in the Shell, Robot Carnival, Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade (though it's pretty depressing), the Appleseed movies, Metropolis, Megazone 23, Project A-ko. And some of the non-robot stuff like Studio Ghibli's films and Satoshi Kon stuff like Tokyo Godfathers. Beyond that, I recommend checking out my boys at Maison Otaku - they're into the same kinda stuff I love, but are insanely knowledgeable and have seen far more product than I. kzfaq.info/love/PFtjBh3vDps-48zHChZo5g Cheers!

Thanks man! I checked out your newest blu-ray update yesterday - that Gremlins release looks sick!

Culturedog yep it looks awesome can't wait to see how the transfer looks. :)

Culturedog also did you see the first part of my black friday update

***** was that the one where you went mano y spidermano against Amazing Spider-Man 2? That was epic!

Culturedog yep. I personally hated the new spider man movie. if you want to see the review:kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qLSHZcyV17iZj4k.html

Thanks for checking it out! Just subbed your channel too!