I have a working LD player and a couple dozen discs that were given to me years ago. Also have a working Video Disc player. I mostly collect DVD/Blu Ray tho. Currently over 2000 titles there.
Quoted from Rarehero:Just make sure to turn off post processing & smooth-o-vision if your TV has that on as default. Maybe that’s why you’re looking at older shit? Does your TV look like a soap opera? That’s just a setting. Turn it off, and all your 90s action movies will look correct at 24fps.
Man, every time I go to someone's house to watch an old movie they have this damn smoothing setting turned on. I see it right away and it gets under my skin because everything looks like a soap opera or old news footage. In every case, the person gets offended when I mention it and argues that their tv is fine. The times they have let me change it for them, they have seriously said they don't see a difference. It's extremely frustrating that manufacturers have these settings turned on by default.
Quoted from ReadyPO:And they may not release some of them again, or release them edited. Some are not PC now, so might be hard or impossible to get. Like an original Star Wars without the Lucas changes
Yup, this was the last format where the originals were officially released, aside from as un-remastered bonus material on an early DVD release. However, you can now get unofficial blu-ray versions known as the 'de-specialized editions' if you know where to look.
