One of the other things I collect is electronics and movies. I'm not sure how many movies I have but I know I have near or over 1000 VHS for example. In recent months, there has been a lot of LaserDiscs popping up, I'm not sure why.
First it was a pawn shop I never been to before, and they had a bunch of them for $4 each. They also had 2 players and a Betamax which I am thinking of picking up at some point. I ended up getting these 4 LDs:
The LD player I had at the time was the Pioneer CLD-V2600 but without a remote. Recently I decided to make up a list of the tech products I want to get (eventually) and to start buying some of the things I needed, starting with the cheap stuff. The issue with the CLD-V2600 is that it is a single side play deck and the unit I had would continuously repeat sides. I knew I needed the remote, only to disable this function. I believe I had posted this before but since the CLD-V2600 is an industrial player, it has a remote that is unlike what you normally see with CE.
The timeline is weird here. I think it was 3 days prior to this remote coming in the mail, I went about and bought one of the LD players at the pawn shop. The Panasonic LX-H670 which supports both sides play. In the terms of LD players, I rank them as such:
1. Single side play
2. Both sides play/auto-reverse
3. Both sides play with AC3RF
4. LD/DVD combo
So I went from a #1 to a #2. I also picked up a "Ray Disc" player, which is one with component out that I have hooked up to my dedicated 4:3 setup. This BD player now also will perform DVD and VCD playback. The previous device was a DVD recorder, sans remote and has some weird quirks like always enabling subtitles.
And then just Saturday, someone posted an ad to Facebook for an estate sale advertising 1,500 Laserdiscs! I went on day two and got just over a dozen, with the highlights being these:
