PIONEER LD : The LD Is Dead... Finally

Posted on Thu Jan 15, 10:02 by LD
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Damn, now I need to hurry to buy one before is too late!

Posted on Thu Jan 15, 06:01 by Leefe, Student, Singapore
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Damn... I liked LDs... Now I can't play my old LD films!

Posted on Thu Jan 15, 07:33 by MrPink
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Damn. A local thrift store was selling a ton of great films on Laserdisc including a whole stack of X-Files episodes for $1 each. I was tempted to buy the stack and grab a LD player on the way out.

Posted on Thu Jan 15, 07:49 by hey
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damn, um, just keeping up the pattern.

Posted on Thu Jan 15, 08:00 by Gandalf
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Damn, pew pew pew.

Posted on Thu Jan 15, 08:36 by jesus99
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"Damn... I liked LDs... Now I can't play my old LD films!"

Yes you can. Pioneer isn't destroying all the LD players in the world

Posted on Thu Jan 15, 09:35 by RTTECH82, Student, USA
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RIP ole friend, RIP! You will be missed, NOT! LOL

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Posted on Fri Jan 16, 04:53 by blahblah
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They still make LD?!

Posted on Fri Jan 16, 05:17 by BoyFacedDog, IT Grunt, Amerika
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Last month I cleaned out a storage room at a location I was taking over. The local manager was with me, trying to decide if anything was worth keeping. We uncovered an LD writer/player and a stack of twenty blank disks. The man had been at the location for fifteen years and had no idea what the LD player was.

Posted on Fri Jan 16, 01:21 by deathwombat, Wigwam, Bookshop
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Damnit, I was just thinking of switching over to LD from Betamax...

Posted on Wed Jan 21, 04:14 by Ryan, orlando
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Damn time to move on to hd-dvd

Posted on Mon Jan 26, 11:37 by ldfan
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all this years from 2002 to 2008 pioneer was selling ld players in what country????

Posted on Wed Jan 28, 02:12 by JD1, Florida
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"all this years from 2002 to 2008 pioneer was selling ld players in what country????"

These DVD/LD combo players would have continued to sell in Japan, where LD was a very big format long before DVD came along. There was a market for a high-quality playback-only movie format in Japan when that market didn't exist in the U.S. so there lots of folks there have very extensive LD collections, including many titles that have never been released on DVD.

The U.S. market was different, and by the time a substantial number of Americans were ready for a non-recordable movie medium (because they already had VCRs to time-shift TV shows and watch home movies, and finally had big screen TVs - mostly purchased for sports - to appreciate the higher resolution) DVD had made its debut. LD remained a niche product in the U.S. and never became a mass-market item the way it did in Japan.