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Just LaserDisc things.

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I talk about life in #CambridgeMA and #Boston, #engineering, #science, #radios (#SDR, #HAM, #LoRa, #MeshCore), #pinball, #film, retro computers/video games, and more.

I collect #art, #LaserDiscs, study #horology, visit museums (The Met, MFA, Harvard Art #Museum) and support my local #library.

I read #poetry and books on #architecture, #design, and #urbanism.

I walk or take public #transit everywhere.

I practice #permacomputing and self-hosting, running #BSD where I can.

One of my "holy grail" #Laserdiscs just arrived!

CAPTAIN SUPERMARKET!

The western version of the film had some boring title like #EvilDead 3 #ArmyOfDarkness, but only Japan released it with the true, superior title.

#キャプテンスーパーマーケット #Laserdisc

The front cover of "Captain Supermarket" (also inferiorly known as Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness). It shows the standard poster artwork of a muscular Ash (Bruce Campbell) posing heroically with a gorgeous woman clinging to his leg. A castle and a skeletal army are shown in the background. The laserdisc includes the Obi strip, and the Japanese title is also shown: 死霊のはらわたIII キャプテン・スーパーマーケット

The back cover of the laserdisc, showing plenty of images from the film, a bit of text about the film (in Japanese), and the chapter listing.

The system used an array of #Laserdiscs to store raw film footage. The players were linked to a control box that was controlled by a SUN Microsystems computer that allowed you to recall footage, make an edit decision list, it kept track of film frame numbers, and had many advanced features that allowed a classical film editor to use the system.

It interfaced with a jog shuttle knob to control the video.

Some footage of the #EditDroid at the NAB conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27hVFq2RB1w&themeRefresh=1

NEC LD-ROM² Emulation Just Got A Major Breakthrough https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/09/following-last-months-mega-ld-news-nec-ld-roms-emulation-just-got-a-major-breakthrough-too #News #Laserdiscs #Emulation via @timeextension64

This ultra-rare ’90s LaserDisc game console can finally be emulated on a PC https://arstechni.ca/Qr8A #laseractive #laserdiscs #emulation #Laserdisc #megadrive #mega-ld #Pioneer #Gaming #gaming #retro #Sega #90s

🎥📀 Ah, the riveting tale of why Southeast Asians chose #VCDs and #Laserdiscs over VHS—spoiler alert: it's because of *mold*! 🌿 Who knew discussing outdated media formats could be so thrilling? Enjoy sifting through linguistic trivia while you dust off your time machine to 1995! ⏳😂
https://rubenerd.com/vcds-and-laserdiscs-in-southeast-asia/ #Mold #OutdatedMedia #LinguisticTrivia #HackerNews #ngated

VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia

https://rubenerd.com/vcds-and-laserdiscs-in-southeast-asia/

#HackerNews #VHS #VCDs #Laserdiscs #SoutheastAsia #RetroMedia

Tonight I finally watched one of the #laserdiscs that I got while I was in Japan last month.

"Who Am I?" - one of my favourite #JackieChan films. So much fun and great to finally see the full length Hong Kong cut which has different editing and is around 10 mins longer. Great 5.1 AC3 track too!

Back cover of the laserdisc, showing various action shots from the film.

A close-up of the back of the disc showing some of the specs, including Dolby Digital AC3 5.1 surround sound.

Years ago, I gave away a van full of #Laserdiscs because, I too, inherited a large #LD collection. So I kept all the #disney, #anime, & my favorite LD films. So after all these years, I needed to upgrade storage for my small but always slowly growing ld collection. Now I can keep all of my film ld, #laseractive games, #snk #Capcom #videogame strategy lds, & the big collector boxes in one place. Repurpose #vinyl #records storage for LDs.

@kn4ntu It's one of the first #laserdiscs I bought.
#BBC #DouglasAdams #TheHitchHikersGuideToTheGalaxy #THGTTG

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Laserdisc

I scored one of my favorites on #Laserdisc today. I don't normally pick up laserdiscs that I have on other formats unless it's something pretty neat. Going to give it a spin in the LD player then add it to the wall. #movies #physicalmedia #laserdiscs #clerks #kevinsmith

Clerks directed by Kevin Smith on Laserdisc

WAHOO!!!
More friends join my plushie collection.

It's the LaserKaraoke parrot and his band ensemble!! From Japan!!!

Really hard to find info on the blue and purple parrots, but they are backup support it seems otherwise!

They appear to be fully licensed products down to a very small PIONEER stamp/insignia found within the attached loop tag near the feet.

Yahooooooo!! 💿

Pioneer, Jun 1984. Introduces commercial-use Laser Karaoke systems centered on the LD-V11 LD player for karaoke. Simultaneously adopts a parrot character as the logo for Laser Karaoke.

@avavsystems @LaserdiscTurtle

#laserdisc #laserdiscs #laserKaraoke #plush #plushie #plushies #plushy #plushToy #plushToys #collectible #1980 #pioneer #collectibles #japan

Three parrots, all yellow beaks, all wide open as if singing. The green parrot holds a red topped microphone, the blue parrot holds a brown guitar, the purple parrot holds a saxophone looking instrument.

Green bird with a yellow tucan beak, holding a red topped microphone, beak wide open as if singing.

Two parrots, all yellow beaks, all wide open as if singing. The blue parrot holds a brown guitar, the purple parrot holds a saxophone looking instrument.

More cool #snk #neogeo #gaming #laserdiscs. I really have a soft spot for these play through videos. Kind of a proto-twitch but on #ld. #worldheroes #worldheroes2 #fightershistorydynamite #karnovsrevenge #mvs #aes

A friend is heading to #London for a few days and is asking for any recommendations for places to find #Laserdiscs.

The only place I've ever found them on my visits is Sister Ray's. Any other suggestions?

In my experience London is pretty poor for #Retro tech shopping.

It’s Christopher Reeves birthday. It’s a good day to binge #SuperMan #laserdiscs

Cleaned out the interior of the remote control where the batteries had exploded; cracked open the hood so I could manually lift the old, tired disc clamper; and we're ready to party like it's 1999 (and Dave's Video is still on Ventura Blvd.). #archiving #laserdiscs #PioneerCLDD704

Some interesting #F1 mini #LaserDiscs Single Video Discs
https://youtube.com/shorts/XxgiaTJfHSM?feature=share

For those of you who have never seen a #laserdisc player change sides!

It's a crazy design! The whole laser pickup flips to the opposite side of the machine while the disc stops, changes direction and speeds up again.

I assume all the stabilisation hardware built into the pickup made it too expensive to add one for each side. Either way you'd still have to wait for the disc to stop, change direction, and speed up again.

#laserdiscs

Lebensmotto. #forever #physical #bluray #uhd #dvd #vhs #vinyl #tapes #cd #laserdiscs

#Laserdiscs

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