I own Coneheads on LaserDisc, AMA

[Rock hard as a Flintstone]

How is it for laser rot?

 

[Baguette Child]

I guarantee Laserdisc is the definitive way to watch Yu Yu Hakusho. I am envious of anyone possessing such a powerful relic.

 

[Joshuan Moon]

I regret that I do not have such a precious title in my own collection. So far my only opportunity to acquire a copy was a pan-and-scan version. I (generally) do not buy films that are not OAR.

What equipment have you settled on to extract maximum greatness from those platters? (And I do mean settled, there is no technology so sufficiently great enough to reproduce but a fraction of the Coneheads greatness locked within.)

 

[Cat tit bingo]

I regret that I do not have such a precious title in my own collection. So far my only opportunity to acquire a copy was a pan-and-scan version. I (generally) do not buy films that are not OAR.

What equipment have you settled on to extract maximum greatness from those platters? (And I do mean settled, there is no technology so sufficiently great enough to reproduce but a fraction of the Coneheads greatness locked within.)

I have a proscan PSDL43

 

[Joshuan Moon]

I have a proscan PSDL43
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I've been keeping an eye out for an older model without any digital processing to play with. The old advice I always heard on players was that you want to use the composite output because the video on the disc is composite and any modern device will probably have a better comb filter than whatever old player you got has. But that's not always true, especially for the later models. If it has any digital video processing features, those features are probably baked into the signal path and can't be (easily) bypassed. The digital processing will inherently perform a Y/C separation which means the composite output is actually a recombined signal. In that case, the s-video output will actually be the theoretical best you can get out of such a player unmodified.

As far as the proscan goes I'm not positive. Supposedly those are just rebadged pioneers. Maybe a CLD-D501. If that's the case, the D501 doesn't look to have any digital processing, just a 3line comb filter that's on its own isolated path for S-Video. What kind of CRT are you using it with?

 

[Cat tit bingo]

What kind of CRT are you using it with?

A toshiba...grey box. I'll be honest I don't know dick about the specifics of my big CRT, I've had since I was a teen and never questioned it. I do have a back up that's even older and it's my prized possession, the spongebob tv.

 

[Joshuan Moon]

Coneheads and a spongebob TV? It's a shame that I just can't have nice things.

For the Toshiba, I don't think they were really top of the line good TVs. I'd advise hooking both composite and s-video up and a/b compare to see if you notice a difference. (If your TV even has s-video. There's no way the SpongeBob one does).

Mostly this stuff only matters when hooking up to modern TVs, newer CRTs, or external scalers.

 

[I Hate Anime Avatars]

I'll definitely double check when I have time to directly compare but from what I saw it was just standard coneheads, like most laser disc the sound is excellent but for most of the things I'm not much of an expert. I'll genuinely try to find my dvd copy and get back to yeah.

It all depends on the quality of the of the master tapes of course but on paper Laserdisc digital audio should sound better than DVD audio since it's uncompressed LPCM, unlike the lossy Dolby AC3 codec used by (most) DVDs. Though whether the difference is perceptible is highly debatable. There is a clear difference to me between the analogue and digital audio tracks on most discs.

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Coneheads and a spongebob TV? It's a shame that I just can't have nice things.

For the Toshiba, I don't think they were really top of the line good TVs. I'd advise hooking both composite and s-video up and a/b compare to see if you notice a difference. (If your TV even has s-video. There's no way the SpongeBob one does).

Mostly this stuff only matters when hooking up to modern TVs, newer CRTs, or external scalers.

I've been putting off my deep dive into true high quality crt nirvana until Ive completely re organized my room to accommodate for a true connoisseur set up. Sadly the the crt my mom bought me almost 2 decades ago doesn't have the superior s-video ports... I can't believe she did that to me...

 

[I'm Retarded?]

Coneheads is great no matter what format you own it in. if you want to harm yourself psychologically, consider what a tale about the virtues and idiosyncrasies of middle-class suburban life would look like now.

 

[Surfin' Biiird]

Are you the chosen one? The last disc master of the format wars?

 

[Cat tit bingo]

Are you the chosen one? The last disc master of the format wars?

Sic Semper Fidelity

 

[sasazuka]

It all depends on the quality of the of the master tapes of course but on paper Laserdisc digital audio should sound better than DVD audio since it's uncompressed LPCM, unlike the lossy Dolby AC3 codec used by (most) DVDs.

While on the subject of Laserdisc vs. DVD, Laserdiscs, for the most part, looked better than the early DVDs that they were competing with especially if it was the fancier CAV discs which had god-tier picture quality at the expense of being only a half-hour per side (so any two hour movie would be on two disks at minimum but probably three disks if they wanted to put the disk breaks between scenes instead of in the middle of scenes). Even the best DVDs from the era generally only looked as good as an average one-hour-per-side CLV Laserdisc.

But eventually DVD authoring companies worked out better compression codecs so a quality DVD from the mid-2000s onward will look pretty much as good as a CAV Laserdisc, not that anyone was still putting out Laserdiscs by then.

 

[Joshuan Moon]

It all depends on the quality of the of the master tapes of course but on paper Laserdisc digital audio should sound better than DVD audio since it's uncompressed LPCM, unlike the lossy Dolby AC3 codec used by (most) DVDs. Though whether the difference is perceptible is highly debatable. There is a clear difference to me between the analogue and digital audio tracks on most discs.

One of the advatanges of LD audio (even the lower-than-DVD bandwidth AC3 soundtracks) is that they are often direct transfers of the original theatrical soundtracks. In the DVD era they started creating home theatre mixes that reduce the dynamic range and generally just tame things down. Visually LD is beat by just about any half decent DVD transfer but in the audio realm you're getting the real thing. Even in today's high price UHD "remasters" rarely is the original audio mix available.

I've been putting off my deep dive into true high quality crt nirvana until Ive completely re organized my room to accommodate for a true connoisseur set up. Sadly the the crt my mom bought me almost 2 decades ago doesn't have the superior s-video ports... I can't believe she did that to me...

Damn moms.

My advice is to think long and hard before making that leap. It's a world of much torture (for me it's the fun kind of torture!) if you try to get peak performance out of a high end set on your own. If you can swing it I'd just spend the big bucks on one that's been servicrd and calibrated by a pro.