Laserdisc Collection Part 47: Jason Koestner Mystery Boxes and my Laserdisc collecting Grail!! 

A wonderful mystery box from a very kind and generous benefactor...I've been on the receiving end as well and his kindness and generosity are just remarkable. Great stuff.

Thanks for sharing this generous gift with the rest of us.

I’ll watching and end enjoying you go thru what you got your friend Jason

The Indiana Jones Japanese box set is beautiful. The original theatrical Star Wars trilogy is a good watch. I have seen the Special Editions many times through out the years. I do enoy the original theatrical trilogy though. Very cool to see the Japanese Laserdisc box set of Star Wars Original Trilogy.

Does this mean that you just got yourself a copy of the most elusive, and highly expensive LD for The World is not Enough? So happy for you, man. Now you have the entire run of the James Bond movies on LD.

If you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend the documentary about Drew called “The Man Behind the Posters”.

Very nice. Congrats on the new additions to your collection and especially the bucket list item of The World is Not Enough. I have it on Blu-ray and love it - one of my favorite Bond movies.

I'm glad you finally got your grail, plus several other titles you wanted.

Fun fact: the band Garbage did the theme song for “The World is Not Enough”.

Fantastic Pick-up Vid Spencer, some fine discs in there, reminded me I need to get that Indy Japanese Boxset & the Japanese SW Definitive set for those “making of” discs. That version of the Definitive set is not all that common actually! Congrats on The World is not Enough! I feel your pain there, I’ve bidded and missed out often on that one! Cheers, Rod

watching this makes me dreaming "man i wish i had a collection of laserdisc" you probably have like 500+ disc in your collection, I've been watching these for a long time now so keep hunting for more.

Looks like Christmas came early for ya! Love all the DTS stuff :)

In my opinion I think my preferred way to watch Star Wars on Laserdisc unaltered would be the Japanese Special Collection laserdiscs, If I can try to find them, and the THX Remastered editions. I want to get the Technidisc edition of A New Hope but that one is way too expensive very rare to find so my best option would be the Special Collection laserdiscs from Japan.

I just read the video description. I'm speechless myself. That LD goes for insane amounts of money.

Imagine having a sealed copy of the world is not enough, pffff ❤️

X-Men and World are the two big LDs I want

There is a posting on eBay now for some criterion laser discs.. dr no, from Russia with love, goldfinger I think. You probably have them in better condition, thought I’d mention it in case you’re interested.

The Japanese Indiana Jones and Star Wars SE sets are very similar to the pal releases.

The PAL SE release looks just like the JP release, I have Star Wars and Empire sealed from the set and a sealed copy of the US set

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I finally watched my copy of Ronin based on your recommendation. Certainly, good performances and stellar chase sequences. But the overall plot seemed like a standard, pointless McGuffin chase. DeNiro's character is apparently in deep cover, I take it the title is ironic.

Pulp Fiction did have an AC-3 soundtrack in theaters (the Dolby Stereo Digital logo appears on many of the posters). Don’t know about DTS. I assume it’s based on whatever source was used for the AC-3 mix.

Love my se7en laser for the same reasons

Hi I’d love to see your set up ? Any videos on that :)

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Well, that was one of your finest LD collection videos yet. I would also like to get a hold of that second pressing of the Japanese Star Wars Definitive Collection box set especially for the fact that it contains the making ofs for all three films ( the only recent home video release where they've included them is for the Bluray boxset), the audio commentaries ( which are dubbed over in Japanese for the first pressing), and most importantly; they're rot free and not missing any footage. The Japanese Special Edition box set also looks rather nice ( identical to the UK PAL box set but for the fact that those discs slide out instead of being boxed inside and the flap of the front cover held by a piece of velcro). It edges out the US box set in that the UK, Japanese and French box sets ( the French one is in English with hard coded French subtitles), use the Drew Struzan artwork for each individual sleeve. The German box set looks more like the US box set in design, and with an identical booklet, albeit in German. The German box set also has a striking golden cover instead of the metallic one used in all the other SE box sets, which happens to be the same design as the one used for the UK VHS Widescreen box set. As for Star Wars box set variants, I happen to own the French box set for the original trilogy with the alternate European artwork you seem to like so much. Again, English with hard coded French subtitles. And yes, the artwork for those releases looks great on an LD cover. As for the rest of the discs Kostner sent you, they are the stuff of wishlist wet dreams for any serious LD collector. It doesn't get any better than that. And if you're looking to expand into Japanese variant territory, I recommend you check out the box sets for the Back to the Future trilogy and the T2 Special Edition, the latter being as good , if not even better than its US counterpart ( it has a 44-page booklet! ). Identical in every way, with the same extra content, with the only drawback being that the Audiocommentary is dubbed over in Japanese. When you started popping out those DTS LDs, I thought you were going to end up showing us some crazy special disc like the X-Men, or M-I 2 ones. I've seen those for sale on eBay ( the X-Men one on an auction not two weeks ago with a starting price of 1 €), and they go for crazy amounts. Finally, a very good video as always, Spencer, and I'm really happy that you finally got your Holy Grail. Your work on this channel makes us all LD, and physical media collectors alike, very proud. Keep up the good work. And congratulations once again.

16:43 Where did you learn that Jackie Brown was Tarantino’s first discrete mix? I feel like once ac3 and dts 5.1 came out, it became harder to figure out what mixes a film originally had since it was no longer as simple as finding out whether or not it had a 70mm blow up, and if those prints had a six track mix. The credits aren’t always accurate, and forums can rarely come to a consensus on these things, so I never know where to look for definitive proof.

28:38 these pressings almost got near close " hand it in my hand "for AC-3 releases but cancelled . CC do you have decoder box for CC i guess its also in japan lol . personally i see nothing wrong with usa pressings letterbox versions .

Is Star Trek Insurrection worth owning on Laserdisc. Cheapest one i could find was the non bilingual Japanese issue. Some seller on Ebay had it for 60 bucks. I also can't find anyone who had reviewed the picture quality so its a blind buy. Love the Last Crusade Gatefold. I have the Letterbox i don't have the full frame. and i don't have either of the evergreen reissues. For Bond what i want is OHMSS, i haven't been able to find a Japan copy of any of those. And for some reason the US release is overly priced as well. Rarely shows up.

Team Jackie Brown

Why is ROTJ Special Edition so hard to find. I've wanted to complete my set. But i don't want to spend 50 and then 25 on shipping to import. And i'm loathe to plunk down nearly a hundred bucks on the boxed set.

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