Do any of you still use Laserdiscs?

I’ve never tried it (barely even heard of it).

I haven’t known anyone who had once this century. Blu Ray I’d imagine would be superior technology.

It was good back in the day though. At least nowadays you don’t have to flop your blu Ray disc halfway through your movie.

My boss does. No joke.

Watched my teacher use one in biology 4 years ago.

it was actually kinda cool, he would scan barcodes in a book and images would be displayed.

I use it as often as my 8-track

Man, the compression. Even on Blu-Ray*. It’s visible. And it’s distracting. Don’t even get me going on supposed “HD” via cable or satellite.

Enjoy those LDs as long as you can.

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* DVDs have superior video quality compared to LD. Blu-Ray much more so. But moire effects and blockiness still plague many vids.

I have about 300 laser discs. Bought my first one in 1980, when they first came out. I have been slowly replacing them with DVDs, but I have a lot of movies I don’t really like enough to buy AGAIN. (i.e. Errol Flynn’s The adventures of Robin Hood).
Most of them are now available on DVD, so I really have no excuse. I never watch them, but refuse to throw them out, till they’ve been replaced.

See now, excluding BlueRay, I do not see better quality in a DVD compared to a Laserdisc. Only much more compact.
That compression is a killer. My movies on Laserdisc are perfect, right down to the blacks.

I was hoping with BlueRay they would make standard definition DVD 4×3 un-compressed.
Buy noooooo they had to go to 16×9 “HD” and we are back to compressed data.