Posted by Bill Vermillion on 12/30/05 06:15

In article <Vsidna20ddZlyC_eRVn-pQ@giganews.com>,
Brian The Demolition Man Little <boggieboogiebooggety@scamoff.com> wrote:
>"Larry Caldwell" <larryc@teleport.com> wrote in message
>news:MPG.1e04eb426465839098b957@news.west.earthlink.net...
>> Geez, quit with the apostrophe abuse! Laser Discs were bulky, didn't
>> offer digital audio, and you had to turn the disc over in the middle of
>> the movie. And the players cost over $300 apiece.
>
>BBBBZZZZZTTTTTTTTTTTTT... wrong, but thanks for playing.
>
>A) Laserdisc did offer both Dolby 5.1 and DTS 5.1.
>B) Many Laserdisc players do have auto flipping.

And my LD-W1 took 2 disks with a moving head so that I could play 4
sides in a row. That was nice for the CLV movies that were only
1/2 hour per side. So the only time I had to change things were
for the CLV sets with 3 disks in them.

>Plus, I own a number of films on Laserdisc that aren't in their
>correct AR on DVD. So I got nothing to complain about. :)

And I have many that aren't on DVD and the way things are going
they may never make it to DVD - just as some of my LPs never made
it to CD.

Bill

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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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