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converting DVDs to laserdics

1,406 581 April 3, 2023 at 03:10 PM
anyone have any experience with this? i hope to convert all my DVDs to laserdisc very soon but i'm having a little trouble finding information about how to accomplish this. obviously i'm not the first person to have this idea so hopefully you can point me in the right direction.

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04-03-2023 at 05:07 PM.
04-03-2023 at 05:07 PM.
You are not the first, just 20 years too late.
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04-03-2023 at 07:18 PM.
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04-05-2023 at 11:36 AM.
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Good luck finding blank discs!
what would be the input format for that recorder? I was looking specifically for a way to directly transfer video from DVD's to Laserdiscs
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komondor
04-05-2023 at 02:32 PM.
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looks like S video but I believe where are getting the laser discs?
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04-05-2023 at 05:13 PM.
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what would be the input format for that recorder? I was looking specifically for a way to directly transfer video from DVD's to Laserdiscs
Is there a point to doing this? One can rip DVDs to hard drive as mp4s\wmvs\mkvs fairly easily and play them over your home network with any device that supports DLNA so why would you want to deal with laser disks at this point?
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04-06-2023 at 12:05 AM.
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Is there a point to doing this? One can rip DVDs to hard drive as mp4s\wmvs\mkvs fairly easily and play them over your home network with any device that supports DLNA so why would you want to deal with laser disks at this point?

well a while back i invested in a top-of-the-line laserdisc player and i'd like to be able to enjoy it. any suggestions are appreciated
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04-06-2023 at 01:37 AM.
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well a while back i invested in a top-of-the-line laserdisc player and i'd like to be able to enjoy it. any suggestions are appreciated
Given the fact that you will never get better than the original media resolution (DVD) imo you are just wasting time and money but to each his own (and that assumes it can even be done at this point). There are programs to rip dvds and blu-rays and modern smart TVs will upscale to 4k to varying degrees of effectiveness and you already own the DVDs, so what exactly do you gain by trying to go to a very obsolete technology that in the end is not getting you a better picture than what you already have?
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komondor
04-06-2023 at 07:23 AM.
04-06-2023 at 07:23 AM.
Well laserdic is an analog format that is just above SD at best:
What resolution is composite video?
Composite video is a single-channel analog video transmission format that carries standard-definition video at 480i or 576i resolution. Unlike the higher-quality S-Video (two channels) and even higher-
quality component video (three or more channels), video information is encoded on a single channel

So watching it on your TV is going to probably be disappointing I would just save it for another few years until it has some value to someone but not today.

https://www.highdefdigest.com/blo...e-theater/
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04-06-2023 at 10:42 AM.
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Quote from YanksIn2009 :
Given the fact that you will never get better than the original media resolution (DVD) imo you are just wasting time and money but to each his own (and that assumes it can even be done at this point). There are programs to rip dvds and blu-rays and modern smart TVs will upscale to 4k to varying degrees of effectiveness and you already own the DVDs, so what exactly do you gain by trying to go to a very obsolete technology that in the end is not getting you a better picture than what you already have?

i'm not necessarily hoping for it to be better than DVDs. some people prefer the way records sound vs CDs. i simply enjoy laserdisc. it is a great technology that was under-utilized.
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