Simple question here. Quality easy is laserdisc. But the realism ??? I feel more like it’s a POV on the left. Sure less details. But you use more your imagination. I feel it more with the vhs personally.
I have the Special Edition Trilogy on VHS and Laserdisc. While the LD version is better, the VHS really isn't a slouch. It looks great for the format and sounds great too. I watch both on my 4K tv and despite being analog, they look fine. A VHS in good quality and recorded in SP mode looks decent. It also helps to keep your vcr heads clean. So I open mine once in a while and clean them with a cloth and alcohol.
I don't know what to say... I grew up with having both VHS tapes and DVDs... I'd say DVD looks better, since DVD is more detailed - miles better! DVD > VHS
The video is definitely better on laserdisc and in real life the sound is better also. I have a huge LD collection and love it. Normal dvd and Blu-ray are better quality picture. But there's a charm to LD. And the sound is unique on these. Compared to any other dvd or Blu-ray. Analog video and sound. Compared to digital. It's just cool 😎👍
The laserdiscs literally 566x240i which would be great for deletterboxing the digitalized video footage and the letterboxed vhs is literally 333x142i which would've been great that I wish you would've done if someone has a home theatre with 6k or 8k and a native 5:4 aspect ratio or 7:6 but no, you fucked it up and dekickassed it too so please reupload this and remaster it better since it literally sucks and I hate this stupid comparison
You should've captured the vhs from d-theatre vcr and laserdisc from a ripper since both these qualities are just so bad and you could've got hdmi or svga quality over them in terms of deinterlacing and quality increasing too
What about making copies of the laser disc with the digital out? How would anyone attempt that and is it possible to make an exact copy say going out of the digital out into a digital input?
Laserdisc is an analogue format the only digital output it ever had was with digital audio, the discs use the pits and lands with PCM to encode the analog video signal
Nope. It was strictly analog. And the beautiful part about LaserDisc was that because of the way it was designed, Macrovision was impossible to implement on it without rendering the disc unplayable. I built quite a library of VHS "rips" of LaserDiscs from Blockbuster and another local place in Chicago that rented them.
i dont get why vhs tapes didnt have letter box aspect ratios, i guess it was to get more resolution plus filling the frame. they basically made a separate cut of the movie, if you look at 1:39 there are 2 cuts for the same shot.
Actually, there were widescreen vhs tapes. They weren't as common as widescreen laserdisc but I have collected some. Among the widescreen vhs tapes I had were Blade, The Matrix, Soldier, Rush Hour, Dark City, and a few others.
The VHS isn't overexposed. Overexposure is something that happens *in camera* when the movie is filmed like in old silent films. Studios quite often place filters and color grading over movies that are remastered and put on DVD and also on this Laser Disc. It was harder to mess with the lighting and coloring of a movie in the old days when they were put on VHS. The Laser Disc version has a slight Blueish Tint placed over the shot that darkens it slightly.
Isn't there a widescreen vhs release of this movie? It would be interesting to compare the widescreen vhs vs the laserdisc version. Obviously i'd imagine laserdisc would look better. Also, I'm pretty sure it's harder to see differences through videos like this. I can say as a laserdisc player owner that laserdisc destroys vhs. Laserdisc is a weird in-between vhs and dvd quality. In my opinion it's a bit better than vhs but dvds typically beat laserdisc by a decent margin depending on the movie.
Even with reduced vertical resolution due to letterboxing, Laserdisc is clearly sharper. It's a shame that more anamorphic 16:9 LD's weren't produced, but LD's sunset coincided with HDTV's (and so widescreen's) dawn so it is what it is.
Only negative is some are susceptible to disc rot because of poor manufacturing techniques allowing the aluminum reflective layer to oxidize. VHS, being magnetic tape, normally does not have these issues unless you are dealing with poor storage.
Laserdisc is being presented in widescreen, which is basically the original format that was presented in theaters. On VHS, the film has been modified to fit on older 4:3 televisions during the 80's and 90's.
The 1995 Star Wars Trilogy THX Widescreen VHS vs Star Wars THX Laserdisc was very hard to distinguish between the two on a CRT TV back in the day. I am bold enough to say it was a draw. Pluses and minuses between the two formats. LD was on numerous discs and the VHS was one tape.
