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Any audio/video benefits of LD over DVD? For those of you who own LD players, have you found that many of the LD that you own are now being released as DVD? Or are there still a lot of films that are/were only released on LD?
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DVD has a better picture and only a few late LDs were released with Dolby Digital 5.1 and even fewer with DTS 5.1 so the DVD sound is generally better (although I have A/B'd a DD LD sound track with the same movie on DVD and because of its larger "real estate" the LD sounded better (more coherent, "sweeter")).Many films on LD have not yet been released on DVD and some will never be.
LDs can be had for a song these days.
However, if you have anything but a crt projector you may never notice the things laser is slightly better at.Though DVD handles motion artifacts far better than it did originally, they still show up in long slow moving shots. At least they no longer give me headaches.
There are a couple of lasers I have where I also have DVDs that show up the other issue. A perfect example is the opening shot of "English Patient" where the paper being written on has depth, texture and dimension in laser whilst the DVD, though nominally sharper is flat.
I must say that these differences are not obvious on a digital projector but blatently obvious on a CRT. Having now moved from CRT to a Digital projector I only keep the best of my lasers and especially the DTS lasers which are almost always recorded to a higher standard than DVD's DTS. As Joe Murphy said in an exchange some time ago:
"They (lasers) sound better because the laserdisc was transferred at 1.4Mbs, as opposed to the majority of DTS DVDs that have a bitrate of 768 kbs (half the full DTS rate). The original DTS DVDs from Universal (about 10 DVDs) have a bitrate of 1.5Mbs. Because the studios wanted more room for the worthless extra features and languages, DTS "downgraded" its codec to give them room. Today, DVD manufacturing capability now allows for 1.5Mbs DTS bitrates on DVDs along with the Dolby Digital 448kbs 5.1 soundtrack, but half-rate DTS has become the accepted standard. Sad. "
Nevertheless, the future is here and with the convenience, the reduction (though not the elimination) of laser rot, better and more consistent colours and the new ability to scale to 1080i and/or 720p I will eventually replace most of the collection. Whatever laser's few benefits they have been overwhelmed by DVD's many advantages.
In my 14 year experience with 900 laserdiscs I have encounered ONE case of laser rot. I have never had any proble with CDs (500+) or DVDs (600+).I don't have any DTS LDs but as I posted the Dolby Digital LD/DVD comparisons I have done come out in favor of the laserdisc.
Cases of CD rot and DVD rot are beginning to show up (see the link). People actually shave the edge of CD/DVDs to make them true. Guess what? If one is too aggressive it violates the seal and "rot" begins. Or the disks had quality control problems in the factory. The link to an article on CNN appears in the thread.Like you, I have not suffered from it, but I know people who have.
Cheers for now.
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