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Re: "Jurrasic Park"

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In Reply to: Re: "Jurrasic Park" posted by tesla on October 03, 2004 at 07:35:01:

I'm one of the few that still prefers laser disc's quality over DVD. Of course it varies from title to title but I find most DVDs to be obnoxiously crappy.

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I'm another of the few that prefers LD's - grinagog 03:32:01 10/04/04 (0)
some of the DVD sound mixes are crappy; even with decent surround playback sometimes conversation is muted and unintelligible
Have found LD's to be more consistent in quality soundwise
DVD can have a better picture but there's a few factors there too; not the least of which is the quality of the transfer
Playback in stereo through tubes and Jurassic Park is great as a "demonstrator", but even that is eclipsed by Jumanji (strange Robin Williams film; aren't they all) but fabulous sound
Also a laser disc
Grins
Re: "Jurrasic Park" - rico 12:02:55 10/03/04 (2)
I built a collection of 900 laserdiscs from 1990 on. When DVDs came out I started that collection and now have about 600. I prefer the DVD presentation. Shown on an ISF calibrated monitor with component connections, a pregressive scanned DVD with 6.1 sound easily bests even othe best LD in terms of picture quality and sound. And the DVD is far less clunky and far more convenient. Plus the transfers of older films (e.g. Criterion) are newer and much better on the DVDs.
I still prefer analog vinyl sound to CD but feel that the DVD is closer to film than the laserdisc.
- Re: "Jurrasic Park" - Analog Scott 12:43:37 10/03/04 (1)
  You certainly have more experience than I do with the two media. But, IME the LD mostly look far more like film than my DVDs. Not that either look anything like film. Maybe there are bigger differnces in players than I would have thought but I find DVDs to be pretty anoying. They are typically way to contrasty with no ability to negotiate subtle gradations in hue or value, many of them go to pieces with rapid motion in the image and they seem to all exagerate color saturation. The extras are often nice though.
  - Re: "Jurrasic Park" - rico 01:18:16 10/04/04 (0)
    It very well be your player and/ot connections. You may have a great late model LD player and a soso DVD player. I don't want to knock laserdiscs because I have watched them for almost 15 years and still do as many in my collection have not or might not ever be issued on DVD but it's just that, in a head to head comparison in a properly set up system, the DVD has the edge.
Re: "Jurrasic Park" - tesla 10:24:05 10/03/04 (0)
I agree. But most seem to think digital is the end-all.

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