The Forgotten Videodisc

[Paul@Lovelockandload]

I have some of my LaserDiscs framed - they're on my landing - will take a pic when I'm back at home next week.

Incidentally, there's a shop, Tiger, sells a log of housey stuff (my wife loves it) and they sell frames for records/LDs and they're cheap too. Five or six quid. Well worth checking out

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Paul@Lovelockandload

I have some of my LaserDiscs framed - they're on my landing - will take a pic when I'm back at home next week.

Incidentally, there's a shop, Tiger, sells a log of housey stuff (my wife loves it) and they sell frames for records/LDs and they're cheap too. Five or six quid. Well worth checking out

Hmmmm, maybe time to get a frame for my Streets Of Fire laserdisc.

[Paul@Lovelockandload]

To me, those MCA/Universal widescreen LDs always looked like our quad posters because of the way they were formatted with the large borders. they looked very nice.

The frames I mentioned are black and they look really nice.

[pedromonkey]

Originally Posted by Stephen@Cult Labs

Hmmmm, maybe time to get a frame for my Streets Of Fire laserdisc.

Photo's please, you know my love for this film stephen. Gonna have to find a streets of fire poster me thinks....

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by pedromonkey

Photo's please, you know my love for this film stephen. Gonna have to find a streets of fire poster me thinks....

..... and buy the blu-ray when it's released later this year.

[The Reaper Man@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by iluvdvds@Cult Labs

Well, well, well here's a format that's fallen into the realms of the forgotten.

Quite a while back, I was browsing my local car boot sale when something jumped out at me (not in the literal sense...that would be silly). It had the artwork of Happy Birthday To Me on, but it wasn't a DVD. It's wasn't a VHS. It's wasn't Betamax, Blu-Ray or even a laserdisc! It was infact....a videodisc!

Being a 90s kid, I had no idea what the hell this thing was, but I bought it nevertheless for a couple of quid. After a bit of research, I found out that this forgotten format was basically the movie version of a record. Once placed into the machine, the disc was read like an old gramaphone....but for films! How cool!

It's easy to see how this format failed - each disc could only contain 60mins of footage on each side, so you'd have to manually turn the videodisc over half way through the film!

Then, the other day, I got a whole load of these gorgeous bad boys for my birthday! Woo! They make great wall decorations!

So, I now have on Videodisc...

- Happy Birthday To Me

- The Amityville Horror

- The Fog

- Monty Python Live At The Hollywood Bowl

- The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three

- The Grateful Dead Conert

- The Eyes of Laura Mars

All very cool indeed!


So has anyone got any of these? Do you rememeber them back in the day?

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/...video_disk.jpg

I remember that trade press magazine advert!

[Splatterdragon73]

Originally Posted by Paul@Lovelockandload

I have some of my LaserDiscs framed.

I must admit there was a time when i thought about doing the same thing with my own LDs but i've still got 'em stored away in plastic sleeves and i'd prefer posters up on my walls anyway.

[Paul@Lovelockandload]

I've only framed some of the discs I signed.

[Splatterdragon73]

Originally Posted by Paul@Lovelockandload

To me, those MCA/Universal widescreen LDs always looked like our quad posters because of the way they were formatted with the large borders. they looked very nice.

Good call and the above studio's LD releases of The Funhouse, Jaws and Jaws 2 looked superb displayed this way all boasting vintage artwork. The latter's traditional design has always been a fave image of mine but unfortunately i lost this title to the dreaded laser rot.

Originally Posted by Paul@Lovelockandload

I've only framed some of the discs i signed.

I still own a bare-bones LD of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre signed by Gunnar Hansen but that's it where autographed LD acquisitions are concerned.

[Paul@Lovelockandload]

I have one of those too!

There were so many nice MCA/Universal covers - Scarface, John Badham's Dracula, Cat People, Carlito's Way, the list is endless. I only have two left - 12 Monkeys and Mallrats and only because they're signed.