watching anything on laserdisc sucks. watching mortal kombat annihilation on laserdisc is like punching yourself in the nuts.
At least it's only 2 sides instead of some bigger 3+ side movies.
the vast majority of my laserdiscs are 2 discs. Doesn't really matter the movie length, either.
on the flip side if you go now, no one will be there! movie theater to yourself.the public is being urged to not go to movie theaters currently
So as you can see, profits are up. Johnson, get on that arcade machine and see what you can come up with.
how are you gonna do Rain dirty like that when you watch him get smacked into the same fire pit after all 5 minutes of his screentimeNo, but i noticed that when they killedthey showed a clip ofBarakadying instead on accident I think.Scorpion or subzero or some ninja
i remember that lolNo, but i noticed that when they killedthey showed a clip ofBarakadying instead on accident I think.Scorpion or subzero or some ninja
This, however, sounds a lot more interesting than just nostalgia. Not to mention how much I respect the authenticity.I am currently converting a rip of MK:A into ROQ format using FFMPEG to test with a bit of homebrew Dreamcast stuff I'm working on right now, so I can watch MK:A on the Dreamcast.
Lies!
There were primarily two formats for LaserDiscs: CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) and CLV (Constant Linear Velocity). CAV had slightly better picture quality, but was limited to roughly 30 minutes per side. CLV had slightly worse PQ, but could hold roughly 60 minutes per side. You could also have mixed format discs where one side is CLV and the other was CAV. This was more common if the last part of a movie was too short to justify the longer format or for special features. Full CAV releases were initially the most common, but later on were usually just used for special releases.
Now that I think about it, I really can't really say much about watching MK:A too many times. I bought two different versions of Alien Resurrection on LD. And I didn't even buy them just as collectables or anything—I actually did it to watch them. This is after having both DVD releases and the Blu-ray. Sure, it's a terrible movie, but I have a lot of nostalgia for it.
This, however, sounds a lot more interesting than just nostalgia. Not to mention how much I respect the authenticity.
Lies!
There were primarily two formats for LaserDiscs: CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) and CLV (Constant Linear Velocity). CAV had slightly better picture quality, but was limited to roughly 30 minutes per side. CLV had slightly worse PQ, but could hold roughly 60 minutes per side. You could also have mixed format discs where one side is CLV and the other was CAV. This was more common if the last part of a movie was too short to justify the longer format or for special features. Full CAV releases were initially the most common, but later on were usually just used for special releases.
For example, the Special Edition release of Aliens was in CAV and had 7 sides (the seventh side had the special features). The Collector's Edition of Alien that came out around the same time wasn't much better at 6 sides, but the remastered version that came out a couple years after that was able to fit the movie on 2 sides by using CLV (and omitting any special features). Most newer players at least had a mechanism that flipped the laser, but older or certain specialty players were manual. You would've had to get up to change the side or disc every 30 minutes for some releases.
Could be worse; at least isn't a SelectaVision Videodisc.watching anything on laserdisc sucks. watching mortal kombat annihilation on laserdisc is like punching yourself in the nuts.
Screw that. Selectavision 4 lyfe.
Yeah, LaserDisc was so impressive during its heyday. Somehow I never encountered it back then. Or maybe I just don't remember it since I was a little kid. Either way, many of the features of DVD that wowed me when I was younger were things that LaserDisc did years before and I had no idea. It wasn't until later that I realized what I had missed out on. In hindsight, this might've been a good thing. If I had experienced LaserDisc like you did, I would've probably become obsessed with it. That must've been mind blowing at the time.My copy of Aliens is 3 sides, which is annoying, because the 4th side is just a static message saying "the content is on the otherside of this disc." But it doesn't include any bonus features like the trailer. They had an entire side available to put content on and filled it with a static message.
The very first time I ever saw laserdisc, ever, was at my brother's house. His roommate had a laserdisc player and we watched that 6 side version of Alien. It was actually a legitimately slick set up as he had a high end stereo and a widescreen big-screen projection tv. You could tell the TV to crop the bars out of Alien and watch it like a modern widescreen movie, it was honestly a slick setup. This was when CD-Rom in general was still relatively new and hip, so seeing movies on this disc was amazing. Being able to skip chapters, too.
Everything was impressive... except having to get up 6 times to change the sides haha.
Believe it or not, LaserDisc wasn't really a failed format per se. VHS may have dramatically outsold it, but LD was still able to find enough success as a niche format that it lasted for nearly 24 years, with around 58,000 titles released. And that was just as a consumer home video format; LD had many other applications outside of that. It wasn't necessarily a failure, but it is under appreciated.OP is a legend.
Watching one of the worst movies ever made on a failed and archaic format. I love this. We need more people to document stuff like this.
Hats off to you.
WAIT. WHAT??
Nice setup!