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Topic: What Are Used Laserdisks Worth
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David Stambaugh
Film God
Posts: 4021
From: Eugene, Oregon
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 09-09-2005 10:01 PM
I dumped my collection of LaserDiscs on eBay a few years ago. I just wanted to get rid of ALL of them and not deal with a lot of 1-disc sales. So I divided them up into 3 groups. One group was B-list routine titles of little interest to anyone and probably difficult to sell. The second group was A-list titles (Star Trek, Star Wars, etc). The last group was "collector" titles.
I sold the collector items individually, as true auctions, with a minimum bid and no reserve. There weren't that many of them. An example was Joe Kane's video calibration disk and a couple of Criterion titles. Also I had the 5-title boxed set of "Star Trek I thru V", letterboxed and with digital sound. I think it was numbered with a certificate or something. That boxed set was the biggest single sale.
I auctioned off the A and B titles in mixed batches of 15-20. Each batch had a Buy It Now price that I considered fair, considering that I just wanted to get rid of them all. I "seeded" each batch with a few A titles and the rest B titles, hoping the good ones would help me get rid of the lesser ones.
The strategy worked for me. I sold them all, got decent prices, didn't have to deal with shipping dozens of individual disks, and the buyers probably felt they got a gem or 2 in those bulk batches. I probably didn't extract every possible dollar out of them, but that wasn't my goal.
Be sure to research eBay on what your A-list and collector items are selling for when you set your prices.
Of course, if you don't do eBay, this info isn't much help. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Note that many collectors are as interested in sleeve condition ("shelf wear") are as they are in whether the disks are scratched or have laser rot.
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Andy Summers
Master Film Handler
Posts: 397
From: Bournemouth Dorset United kingdom
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 09-13-2005 08:22 PM
Mark, Tao, David, Mike, and Monte
There is differences in the sound the framing of the image, but mostly the sound, STAR TREK the motion picture directors edition the mix sucks, and where’s captain Kirk’s tapping the table sound all gone to, defiantly a major foul up in the remixing those donkeys have deaf hearing all round, thank God I’ve kept my STAR TREK laserdiscs, and playing “STAR TREK TMP” with three-screen JBL and JBL pretty much all around the room with mighty JBL 4645 sub bass THX sound and feels like the CIC EMPIRE cinema October 8th 1989 STAR TREK all day, anyway staying on topic same thing applies to the SATR WARS films episode 4 A New Hope has gone through 6 different mixes, and where’s that dialogue pan with the princess and the EWOK gone to in Return of the Jedi, the original version laserdisc cat # 1478-85 retains this in the mix unlike the definitive collection where the film has gone through another remix and again with STAR WARS SE ED, laserdisc and now with the super mega hyperspace DVD, I’m not saying you guys don’t listen.
Do and A&B test of the DVD VS laserdisc and if you really think it’s worth giving up, then fine there are some that I have given up like “DIE HARD” THX laserdisc and the cool panned sound where Hans pulls on the trigger while pointing it at McClain, on the DVD version the sound as been mixed into the centre, of to the screen right channel is where it should be just like in the 1988 theatrical release, so yes I’m kick myself on that one, stupid, though it will cost me a lot less to buy it again and shipping costs as well, so there you have in a nut shell.
Hold on to those laserdisc like gold dust, did you know DVD’s will last for around 20 years and CD for around 50 years, so how many DVD’s have you got in your collection before they start showing sine’s of giving up the ghost, sound's more like laser rot, oh sorry I’ll wash my mouth out with soap and water……
LOL
Ashley
PS, and to make matters worse 2001: a space odyssey, where in out world as all the dialogue panning gone to, I tell you guys straight those donkeys those tosses of rerecording mixers have got no clue, and I don’t what to hear it come form one as to why, if it ate broken then don’t fix it, well I think they dropped acid and where tripping of there tits when they remixed it, without the power or excitement, to anyone else they wouldn’t know whither there buying a donkey remix version, well the cats out of the bag now, be aware of donkey remixes….thrust me there’s a whole lot out there including "Superman the movie" though I only have it on VHS in Dolby stereo, I would like the widescreen laserdisc version, ok so it’s just Dolby stereo, I’m sure its got lots of dialogue panning in it somewhere…..
Donkeys make me ![[puke]](graemlins/puke.gif)
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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster
Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 09-15-2005 11:19 PM
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Hold on to those laserdisc like gold dust, did you know DVD’s will last for around 20 years and CD for around 50 years, so how many DVD’s have you got in your collection before they start showing sine’s of giving up the ghost, sound's more like laser rot, oh sorry I’ll wash my mouth out with soap and water……
Hello there Andy,
Actually I have quite a few CD's that date back to the dawn of CD's in the early 80's and they all play just fine. I have yet to experinece any rot of any type in CD's, DVD,s or laser disks which by the way are made somewhat like CD's. May be due to the dry air out here as nothing out here ever seems to get moldy, not even bread left out for three years! My lasers are inconvenient, my DVD's anc cd's are not and the DVD's offer a far superior picture in terms of color and resolution ins pite of the compression over the noisy rf based video from the lasers! Remember that 224 disks take up quite a bit of space and also remember that no ones house is generally equipped these days to handle something resembling LP's. As for the LP's I did save all my direct to disk albums but sent the other 400+ to the dump some years back.
Joe, I will make up a list of the LD's this weekend.
Mark
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