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The Wonderful World Of Laserdiscs (Patreon)

Published:
2019-05-12 02:04:11
Imported:
2021-10

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Douglas Trumbull's Showscan Process - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showscan

https://youtu.be/mO3ot_eSlzQ

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The Wonderful World Of Laserdiscs

Douglas Trumbull's Showscan Process - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showscan Join Team FranLab!!!! Become a patron and help support my YouTube Channel on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/frantone - Music by Fran Blanche - Frantone on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/frantone/ Fran on Twitter - https://twitter.com/contourcorsets Fran's Science Blog - http://www.frantone.com/designwritings/design_writings.html FranArt Website - http://www.contourcorsets.com

Comments

Anonymous

Very informative. I'll have to checkout some of these. I see Captain Scarlet: The Mysterons is on Amazon Prime. I watched a few minutes. It reminds me of "Clutch Cargo" from my youth.

Anonymous

Some of my favorites in that collection!

Anonymous

I can't believe you had Repo Man sitting there teasing us the whole video and didn't even mention it. But what a fantastic collection!

Anonymous

Thank you Fran. You're a sweetie ❤️

Lazlo Nibble

J.G. Quintel’s REGULAR SHOW has an episode called “The Last LaserDisc Player” that has the whole ‘80s LD-nerd vibe absolutely nailed. Given that he was born in ‘82 I can only assume he had help.

BobC

Thanks for the frame sync!

veritanuda

Oh my.. we have such a similar taste in films. Plus some new ones I have never heard of before but I will be checking out. Laserdisks to me growing how really just meant the Dragon Lair game and not much else. I suspect in the UK the market was so fractionally small that is why I was never really exposed to it. Still fascinating to know about and happy to see you are still getting use from it after all these years. But it is a valid problem that of optical disk rot or any sort of long term storage solution. We as a society have really not been able to wrap our head around the inevitable loss to society that bitrot will have long term. It used to be your grandparents could take a photos and film and have it been seen hundreds of years later, but what of the millions and millions of images and videos we have now, how can we ensure they will be accessible ot future generations ? The move to a digital world sounds great on the surface but how sustainable is it ? Thanks for the video Fran.. really very interesting to watch.

Anonymous

Still have mine hooked up to my home theater with about 300 disks.

Lazlo Nibble
>>22643973

Arguably, long-term accessibility is less of an issue in digital where you can make lossless copies indefinitely. You do have to make the effort to create those copies, but it’s at least possible, whereas with film, analog magtape, etc. there will never be a copy as good as the original, and that original is going to slowly deteriorate over time without your making an extraordinary effort to prevent it (and even then, there are vault fires). The Applesauce project released a hardware mod for Apple II disk drives that lets you actually map out the magnetic flux of the disk surface and then “decode” the layout in software rather than hardware. (Apple II copy protection used a lot of weird tricks that played with the physical properties of the disk in ways that unmodified drives can’t reproduce; the mod lets you capture and reproduce the full layout as written by the original duplicating hardware.) Whoever builds equipment that can do that with magtape—mapping the actual magnetic flux across the entire surface of the tape at high resolution, and leaving the interpretation of that mapped data to software—is going to rescue and/or preserve an enormous amount of media that would otherwise be lost forever to deterioration or just plan inability to find working hardware that can read the stuff.

David Peaker

Captain Scarlet and Thunderbirds were some of my favourite TV shows as a kid, hence the Spectrum logo for my Patreon image. Thanks for the nostalgia.

Anonymous

I remember watching Thunderbirds back in the 60's but I don't remember ever watching Captain Scarlet. I just finished watching the first episode on Tubi. Lots of explosions and action. Just what a young kid in the 60's would want. :-) https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/272756/s01_e01_the_mysterons

Anonymous

You've got some great titles there. No sure about the pewee disk though. I saw the mad mad world in theaters as a kid. I remember laughing it up. I've tried to watch it since then, but it just doesn't hold up for me. Love the Forbin project.

Anonymous

The pride of my collection is Mike Jittlov;s - The Wizard of Speed and Time. I was in just the right group on Usenet to see the notice it was available.

Anonymous
>>22663587

I loved the Forbin Project also, I hated that they never made movies of the second and third book.

Anonymous

Brainstorm was also Natalie Woods last film, she died before production was finished, which is why the ending is a bit, well, "odd" in places.

Anonymous

I rewatched Brainstorm last night after seeing this. Such a good film.

Anonymous

Was that a young Dick York in that last shot ?

Anonymous

I should have guessed that you would have been into Laser Vision. I got into it big time in 1985. Is Apollo 17 the only Space Archives volume you have? I think I have all of them, myself, and as they were pressed by 3M, the chance of laser rot is minimal. I've watched them all several times I have gone through all the pictures, 4 hours at a time. If you haven't had time to play with the rest of them, I'll send them along.

Mark Wayt

I love Brainstorm - such a good movie. Never seen it in the full aspect as intended. Sounds like such a cool idea. I always thought that Strange Days was almost a remake or maybe Brainstorm was the prequel - how the brainwaves were recorded.

Anonymous

Some time ago on the public transport I saw some kids patiently trying out cube rotations and discussing, whilst 95% of the other people were talking into their mobile, or checking messages.