Hi Bob:
I think it's simple economics. Not enough market to justify production. Some of that stuff might
turn up online one day.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Hodge" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] laserdisc
> Hi Tom,
>
> Titles which come to mind immediately are:
>
> ( Some of these may have slipped through my radar, but not many)
>
> Golden Dawn
> Whoopee !!
> Employees Entrance
> Skyscraper Souls
> Madam X
> Baby Face
>
> If I had my modest holdings available here in front of me, I could
> lenghten the list. I couldn't afford the technonogy when it was new, and
> the prices commanded on Ebay now mean I can't afford it now
> ( with some exemptions) otherwise I'd have much more as I would have
> bought it when it was easily available .
>
> Many,many many significant( At least to me) early sound Warner
> Brothers, Paramount and MGM 1 and 2 reelers.
>
> Yes , all are very vintage late 1920's mid 1930's subjects . The
> transfers were done with first generation 35 mm materials,and not from 4
> th and 5th generation 16mm dupes and reduction prints, in most cases.
>
>
> I don't consider VHS to be an acceptable medium when the infrastucture
> exists to have a superior one.Many if not all of these titles were once
> available on VHS. Unfortunately , many people think that all early film
> sounds and looks bad. This is usually because the quality of the print
> they were watching was many generations removed from the orignal .
> Sure, the sound quality isn't Dolby SR, but it isn't the tubby, muddy
> sound that exists on poor qualty 16 mm copies.
>
> Most of this material isn't for the masses of this day and age. The era
> of laserdisc technonogy was during a period when people didn't find such
> material boaring and inane, and why so much great early film found its'
> way to laserdisc.
>
> My 2 Bits...
>
> Bob
>
>
>
>
>
>>>> [log in to unmask] 12/28/2006 4:41 PM >>>
> Hi Bob:
>
> I'm curious, what are some films that were out on LD but not on DVD? Is
> it all just Really Old Stuff
> or Really Obscure Stuff or are there more recent or famous gaps in the
> DVD catalog?
>
> -- Tom Fine
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Hodge" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 2:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] laserdisc
>
>
>> Darned right you should !! Or sell it to me...In that order.
>> Especially since MANY motion picture titles which were originally
>> transferred to laserdisc haven't been transferred to DVD.
>> And probably never will be.
>>
>> No, you should hold on to it. I wouldn't sell mine either.
>>
>> Bob Hodge
>>
>> Robert Hodge,
>> Senior Engineer
>> Belfer Audio Archive
>> Syracuse University
>> 222 Waverly Ave .
>> Syracuse N.Y. 13244-2010
>>
>> 315-443- 7971
>> FAX-315-443-4866
>>
>>>>> [log in to unmask] 12/28/2006 2:15 PM >>>
>> Should I save my Pioneer LD player?
>>
>> --
>> Frank B Strauss, DMD
>>
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