Laserdisc still holds a lot of nostalgia for me. Feeling that heavy disc spin up through the vibrations in the floor does instill a sense of awe. CAV discs only have 30 minutes per side after which the machine spins down in the sudden silence to move the head assembly to the other side and spin up again. I miss that feeling of heavy machinery.
I don't miss getting up and wrestling those heavy discs in the dark in the middle of a movie.
My player doesn't work anymore and last time it did dvd had already surpassed Laserdisc in image quality on a modern tv. It was great for the time, especially hooked up to a CRT projector. Now I rather get a blu-ray version instead of buying a new player. Laserdisc's analog format will never look as good on digital tvs as it did on crt tvs.
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