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Thread started 08/09/06 11:51am

daPrettyman

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Question about Laserdiscs

Does anyone in the US own any of the Prince laserdiscs that were produced in the UK, China, or Japan?

If so, do these play in US laserdisc players?

I really want to get the Livesexy, Undertaker, and Sacrifice of Victor on Laserdisc, but don't want to waste the money if it won't work.

Thanks
Kelvin
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Reply #1 posted 08/09/06 12:16pm

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daPrettyman said:

Does anyone in the US own any of the Prince laserdiscs that were produced in the UK, China, or Japan?

If so, do these play in US laserdisc players?

I really want to get the Livesexy, Undertaker, and Sacrifice of Victor on Laserdisc, but don't want to waste the money if it won't work.

Thanks
Kelvin


Mine from Japan works just fine.
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Reply #2 posted 08/09/06 12:31pm

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That's awesome. I seen a few years back an older electronics store that was still selling their older catalogue of lazer disks. There were a couple of Prince Laserdisks. I never thought about that at the time, but I bet they are very collectable.
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Reply #3 posted 08/09/06 1:30pm

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I have several of the Japanese LDs (Sacrifice, Undertaker, Gett Off, Sheila E.'s Romance 1600 film) and they play just fine in US players since the US and Japan both use the NTSC standard. You'll probably have issues with European LDs, though, since they are, to the best of my knowledge, in the PAL format and won't play on most US LD players.
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Reply #4 posted 08/09/06 2:09pm

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kdavis said:

I have several of the Japanese LDs (Sacrifice, Undertaker, Gett Off, Sheila E.'s Romance 1600 film) and they play just fine in US players since the US and Japan both use the NTSC standard. You'll probably have issues with European LDs, though, since they are, to the best of my knowledge, in the PAL format and won't play on most US LD players.


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NTSC is the Us, Canadia and other standard. It's 29.97 frames per second.
PAL is most often thought of as the european standard. It's something like 15 frames per second.

If your Pal don't play in your NTSC player, you might look on ebay. I'm sure you could pick one up for next to no money.
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