Made a few more self-indulgent video logs on Youtube. This time I make the case as to why Disney Laserdisc Box Sets are the best things EVARRRR!!

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Yup, you'll never get some of those "supplementary materials" on the DVD sets!!!

In other news, Heroes. It's getting slightly interesting. And I thought that asshole gung-ho agent working for Nathan ( Read more... )

Dustin, stop looking at things you can't afford right now. You just dropped a bunch on a number of Laserdiscs recently (even if they weren't all for you.) While it would be really nice to have these as well . . .


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This amused me. Apparently on the Spaceship Earth ride at Disney's Epcot Center had all the video spooled off of a Laserdisc. Here's a video of a guy who got ahold of the original Laserdisc player that was used for the ride and got it working again:

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How many hours upon hours upon hours was that gigantic thing in use? And it still works after a few ( Read more... )

So I've gotten through about the 1st 100 pages or so of Let the Right One in by John Ajvide Lindqvist (the novel upon which the movie of the same name was based.) All's I've got to say is that there's stuff I've read so far that if they tried to include it in the movie, it would have earned an NC-17 rating or worse (and I don't only mean because of ( Read more... )

A SEPTA Regional Rail train and a work train have run into each other in the Logan section of PhiladelphiaLeast no one was seriously injured, but it's always works out that way somehow. If I decide to take the Regional Rail (expensive but close to home) rather than the Market-Frankford El (cheap but not-so-close to home) to work, it's either early ( Read more... )

Pioneer Officially Ceases Production of Laserdisc PlayersThus, the Laserdisc format is officially dead and buried ( Read more... )

. . . even if it was created by a woman.

Ip Man to hit DVD in FebruaryYesh! I love how movies in Hong Kong and China get such a fast turnaround even though they made a ton of cash in theatres. Guess I'll be dropping some money for this ( Read more... )

Found this prediction for the next UFC event on the 27th by this one promoter, Jeff "Wombat" Prezsaros, to be rather amusing on few different levels:Dan "The Viking" Evensen vs. Pat BarryEvensen once told me that he hates all wrestlers everywhere because "real fighting is punching and kicking". Barry will be happy to oblige him in that, since he ( Read more... )

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I want a WEND•E to do all my laundry for me

Also . . . best Karaoke Laserdisc ever?


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. . . and for those who want to eat them"

Doing my occasional search for random Laserdisc stuff on the web (I do have a a community to run), found this old introductionary/instructional/demonstration video on Laserdiscs by Pioneer ( Read more... )