HAHAHA! the project begins!

[rmd]

shiny new dvd recorder showed up today.

i have hooked it up to the laserdisc player, and have begun the great "dump ld to dvd" project. right now, i'm just recording the raw laserdiscs, without bothering to try and edit out the "a->b" disc transition. i figure i can rip the dvds onto a hard drive and edit that out later. right now, i just want to get them preserved into a more easily readable format than laserdisc.

between my own LDs and ones i've gotten from other folks for free or cheap, i've got a pretty big pile of old movies, here. it'll be good to have them on more easily watchable media.

Comments

[johnromkey.livejournal.com]

Have you tried to play any of the DVDs yet? I'd be a little worried that Macrovision might shoot you in the foot.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

doesn't seem to be a worry.

as i understand it, the laserdisc format doesn't support macrovision. in my more conspiratorial moments, i wonder if that contributed to its demise. :-)

[johnromkey.livejournal.com]

It's been years since I used an LD but I'm pretty sure that I remember them supporting Macrovision... they didn't want you to be able to make tapes of them. I think it's more a function of the player than the format but I could definitely be wrong.

Anyway, I'm glad you're rescuing your LD's! We still have a few sitting around that I don't think will ever make it to DVD.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

iiinteresting. so far with a sample set of two, i seem to be okay.

[fich.livejournal.com]

Can I send you about 100 laserdiscs and a spindle of DVD+Rs?

[fetish666.livejournal.com]

i am so pleased to hear that i am not the only person on the planet that still has a laserdisc player and laserdiscs. and just imagine...not having to get up and flip the buggers...

[cz_unit]

Cool. I still have my laserdiscs, and some of them really aren't going to work well in DVD format (the CAV version of Fantasia, for example) One of these days I should get some serious disk and do a frame-by-frame copy of them to digital media.

CZ

[smeehrrr.livejournal.com]

Is there any way to capture the AC-3 soundtracks, or do you have to go analog?

[rmd.livejournal.com]

not that i know of -- i think i can only go analog here, with the gear i have.

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

What happens to the originals then?

[rmd.livejournal.com]

i keep them in storage to maintain the "legal backup" moral high ground.

(like with cd's i've ripped)