LDDb Forum

Feed - Welcome to the LDDb forum Welcome to the LDDb forum
Everything is fresh and not fully tested yet. Expect some take off turbulence while I'm slowly mastering the dark arts of phpBB3...

Feed - Presentation thread Presentation thread
Tell us who you are. Old veteran, young newbie, just passing by, or here to stay!

Feed - Everything not even remotely related to LDs... Everything not even remotely related to LDs...
A kind of catch-all category. We might spawn a new sub-forum if we find something worth discussing about.

Feed - General discussions - Laserdisc General discussions - Laserdisc
Catalogs, old TV ads, stories about the format itself.

Feed - General discussions - Movies General discussions - Movies
Star Wars, James Bond, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future. Come on, admit you watched them all!

Feed - General discussions - Music General discussions - Music
Live, Classical, Jazz, Pop, Music Videos, Opera, [add your favorite here]

Feed - General discussions - Anime General discussions - Anime
From Ghibli to Gainax, from Astro Boy to Z-Gundam, from かわいい to きもい...

Feed - The Criterion Collection The Criterion Collection
They were over-priced. They were gorgeous. They were the object of movie lovers deserved respect.

Feed - General discussion - TV Series General discussion - TV Series
Star Trek, X-Files, Columbo, Twin Peaks, and a lot more!

Feed - Soundtracks (AC3, DTS, Digital Audio) Soundtracks (AC3, DTS, Digital Audio)
Tell me again the story about the first Jurassic Park DTS DVD soundtrack release Dad!

Feed - Hi-Vision, Squeeze, PAL+, HDVS and other oddities Hi-Vision, Squeeze, PAL+, HDVS and other oddities
If you believe LD was a niche market. These were the niche within the niche... within the niche.

Feed - Laserdisc Reviews Laserdisc Reviews
Only mandatory part: use the TITLE [REF] specs (year) format for post titles with a link to the LDDb entry.
Ex: Star Wars: The Phantom Menace [PILF-2830] NTSC/LBX/AC3/THX (1999)

Feed - LD lots for Sale / Trade LD lots for Sale / Trade
This is a PRUNING category: when a post sees no activity for 15 days, it will be automatically removed.
This is intended for LOT selling only. Individual titles, eBay or Craigslist links will be removed.
If a transaction is successful, please consider making a 3% donation to help the website, thanks!

Feed - LD Players - General discussions LD Players - General discussions
Anything between the MCA DiscoVision PR-7820 to the Pioneer HLD-X0

Feed - Hardware Database discussions Hardware Database discussions
We should find ways to document the past (40 years worth of) LD hardware such as players, remote controls, demodulators, convertors, etc. laserdiscarchive.co.uk hasn't been maintained in 12 years, we need to properly archive this trove of information in a searchable manner!

Feed - AC3RF Demodulators AC3RF Demodulators
Pioneer, Yamaha, Nakamichi, Sony, Lexicon, Meridian and others

Feed - MUSE decoders MUSE decoders
Both Decoders (MUSE => RGB) and Converters (MUSE => NTSC)

Feed - Audio hardware Audio hardware
Subwoofers, Speakers, Decoders, Equalizers

Feed - Video hardware Video hardware
Scalers, Filters, Processors, Displays

Feed - Home Automation Home Automation
RS232, IR Codes, IP control, DB9, DB25, RJ45, Remote Controllers, and a lot of technical stuff

Feed - Lumagen Radiance 21x4 Lumagen Radiance 21x4
One of the best video processor for LaserDisc players ... but hard to find

Feed - Player Reviews Player Reviews

Feed - LD Hardware for Sale / Trade LD Hardware for Sale / Trade
This is a PRUNING category: when a post sees no activity for 30 days, it will be automatically removed. If a transaction is successful, please consider making a 3% donation to help the website, thanks!

Feed - Capacitance Electronic Disc (USA/UK) Capacitance Electronic Disc (USA/UK)

Feed - Video High Density (Japan) Video High Density (Japan)

Feed - Digital VHS (USA/Japan) Digital VHS (USA/Japan)

Feed - High Definition Digital Versatile Disk High Definition Digital Versatile Disk
"Why, oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?" -- Cypher, Matrix

Feed - Video CD (NTSC/PAL) Video CD (NTSC/PAL)
Video CDs could be either 1.0 or 2.0 (playing on some LD players) or S-VCDs.

Feed - Universal Media Disc Universal Media Disc

Feed - dts CD (USA) dts CD (USA)
Home of the several dozen dts CDs (4.1 and 5.1) that were released from the quad LP masters and a few brand new mixes.

Feed - DVD Audio DVD Audio
Also called DVD-A. MLP encoding but back-compatible with DVD Player.

Feed - Super Audio CD Super Audio CD
DSD, DXD, DSF, DST, Hybrid or not

Feed - 日本語 日本語
(in Japanese)

Feed - Deutsch Deutsch
(in German)

Feed - Français Français
(in French)

Feed - Nederlands Nederlands
(in Dutch)

Feed - Svenska Svenska
(in Swedish)

Feed - New forum categories/sub-categories requests go here New forum categories/sub-categories requests go here

Feed - Feature requests and general questions on LDDb Feature requests and general questions on LDDb
(Can be flagged as solved) I have a few in mind already... but you might be a lot smarter than I am

Feed - Bug reports Bug reports
(Can be flagged as solved) Nobody's perfect and browsers/add-ons/OS/application updates might have broken something that I'm not aware of.

Feed - Caveat emptor, Caveat venditor Caveat emptor, Caveat venditor
(it's the Latin for "Let the buyer beware, let the seller beware")