OK Outlaws...here's a strange one.....
I love my Laserdiscs!! OK. I've said it. Laserdiscs Rule!!!!! DVD's are a wonderful thing, and incredible thing. I would never part with any of my DVD collection, or my new DVD player, the fabulous (and naturally just discontinued) Denon DVD3800. But it was Laserdiscs - (and Jim Fosgate actually) that started me down this incredible road that led to this thing I call Home Theater, which led me to the Outlaws! Sure, I loved my stereo...records, tapes, 4 track, 8 track, cassette, reel to reel, CD's...and a good movie now and then on Beta or VHS - played through the stereo..how good could it get?? But then I discovered Laserdiscs. These were so cool! And the players were beasts!! All this good stuff led me to a thing called Surround Sound...yes, I do remember quadraphonic, but it wasn't the same...this surround sound thing....there was nothing like it. Laserdiscs. They were the ultimate. Incredible picture and sound all in one. All of what I had been building up to...a great sound system, a great way to watch and listen to movies, it all of a sudden really came together and mattered.
Music was one thing, with a great sounding music system an important part of my life already. But Laserdiscs....Wow!! What was this all about? And Jim Fosgate! What was that propriety high speed digital servo logic stuff all about? And why did I need all of those speakers to watch a movie??
The rest is history.....but my Laserdiscs..I still love to watch a clunky old Laserdisc. My old Pioneer 704 is still holding up, and having just purchased a new Outlaw system in the last few weeks, and kinda beginning to get things figured out...with a few Outlaw PSC's for "digital" choices(finally)thrown in.....got to see about this newfangled digital coax plug stuff. yippee skippee!!!! I'm in no hurry, changing, eliminating....basically scaling down the works, rethinking, and finally joining the 21st century.(and being able to use a digital plug!!!)...I'm the guy that has always said....analog all the way....... but that is a whole other story,......digital, analog, Outlaw has given me a whole new world of options....and I couldn't help but think of my old, favorite......Laserdiscs...
Anybody else out there still watch a Laserdisc now and then? Or, am I a total mess....well, never mind about that......
Anybody even remember....Laserdiscs??? Once top of the heap, now forgotten.....
but not by me.