Anyone Remember Dragon's Lair?

[CRTGAMER]

Anyone try links on my previous reply above, right below Dirk's pic?

Interesting info there. I had someone with a Laserdisc player do a rip of BR since the theatrical cut was never released on DVD (until the Final Cut came out). Pretty disappointing that such an old format has a few handy features that have not been implemented in the overrated Bluray format.

That Jog Shuttle "Throttle" and individual frame search really stands out on laser. Rock solid smooth scanning both directions.

[17DaysOlderThanNES]

Anyone try links on my previous reply above, right below Dirk's pic?

Interesting info there. I had someone with a Laserdisc player do a rip of BR since the theatrical cut was never released on DVD (until the Final Cut came out). Pretty disappointing that such an old format has a few handy features that have not been implemented in the overrated Bluray format.

that's because DVD and Blu-Ray use compression codecs and don't render every frame 100%. If you remember the early days of the internet and those awful blocky compression artifacts, that's how DVD and Blu-Ray work as well, just much much better. Laserdisc, on the other hand, is completely analog like a VHS tape, but without the side effects that go along with magnetic tape. CAV discs actually contain frame for frame copies of the original film print. In other words, if you skip to frame 2234 on a CAV laserdisc, it would correspond to frame 2234 on an actual film reel. Pretty cool stuff.

Why do they not do that nowadays, you ask? size, plain and simple. A full 2 hour CAV movie would take 4 sides (at least 1 trip to the tray even with a flip player) with a gigantic, expensive disc. Granted, Blu-Rays have much finer bits, but you would probably still need a few discs per movie, especially if you wanted it to display in HD. It's cool to have frame by frame rendering, but at the end of the day, it only appeals to extreme movie buffs that want to analyze every single frame of the original film. Most people wouldn't notice the difference.

[Erik_Twice]

I also think that you should go either the Daphne route or pick the 20th Anniversary version.

Daphne is no very hard to set up but given how common Dragon's Lair is I'm sure you can find a good PC version of it for cheap.