Hello, I am looking at a CED player and 50 ish discs for $50 on Marketplace, I an interested in the format and have a small laserdisc collection, I know CEDs are lower resolution and most discs only have mono audio but I like oddball stuff like that. The seller did not mention if anything works but replacement belts seem fairly inexpensive though a replacement sytlus is pretty spendy if needed. Any advice you could give would be appreciated. Thanks.

  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    I own a CED player and very small collection. $50 for all is an excellent price, assuming the player works. They’re awful, and you’ll never want to watch them again. But they’re an excellent private collection slash private museum piece.

    All that said, LaserDisc is where it’s at. Consider sticking with a LaserDisc collection instead. Fuckin love LD.

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      9 months ago

      Thank you, I actually have an LD collection going already, at one point I had over 500 discs and 4 players, sold all of it and now have 2 working players (and a couple broken ones) and maybe 60 movies. Most of what I have now is less than common, in not even sure if I have a copy of T2 or Jurrasic Park, my pride and joy is a copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy BBC series.

      Edit: It turns out I’m already subbed to that community, I’ll do a collection post or something in the next week.

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      9 months ago

      Shameless plug [email protected]

      Goof stuff - subscribed and added to the sidebar.

      I’ve picked up a few cheap ones (because if audiophiles can display LPs on their walls, I can nail up a couple of Laserdiscs) but there are some I want that are expensive imports and I may need a better way to get them than eBay. Feels like post fodder over there.

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        9 months ago

        Might I ask imports from where?

        I myself at this point buy mostly Japanese LDs, for a variety of reasons. The jacket artwork is often cooler, the manufacturing quality seems higher, and they’re usually in mint condition.