ITT: Anime on Laserdisc

Laserdisc was a surprisingly popular format in Japan. Too bad it flopped in Europe, Australia, and North America.

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Haven't we moved past the era of physical discs for anime?
Do you really enjoy juggling with CDs/DVDs/BDs/LDs/video cassettes (various kinds) in between episodes?

I remember moot (some cuck) bragging about his laserdisk copy of NGE not long before he fucked off

laserdiscs are the best format but i never saw any anime on them in person

>oh nooooo I have to get up off my 600lb ass to put another disc in the player, AAAAGHHHH I'm going insane!!!

This is barely even a problem with BDs now given the higher storage, come on son

BDs are shit quality for other reasons though

Such as?

WHEN WILL YOU FINALLY REMOVE THE CAPTCHER, MOOT?

bad mastering and quality control

I have a laserdisc player and some discs I picked up locally a while back, but none of them are anime. Truth was, no one wanted to invest in this when you could buy pre recorded video tapes and get blank ones to tape the huskers winning yet another bowl game.

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An anime BD usually contains 2 episodes.
You have no idea what you are talking about.

Yes, Sony, I love when you take away the uncensored version of my favorite show.

Shit quality control in laserdiscs is why the laser rot meme exists.

nah disc rot is just plastics being plastic. laserdiscs are also fully analog so there is zero room for error on them like early generation CDs. none of that's QC.

what's the point of having physical media when storage is $15/TB and you have gigabit internet

well in laserdisc's case it's getting ultra-rare releases of things, mostly jap.

You mean problems that have plagued every generation of home releases?

I like to pirate and buy physical, the latter because it supports future restorations of stuff that might otherwise be stuck in SD or shitty transfer hell. Also I like extras, and you usually can't get those digitally outside of downloading the entire BD rip

to some extent, distributors getting any creative control is a terrible thing but BD shops are basically money factories that will shovel anything out the door.

>implying BDs have more than two episodes per disk
DRM

No, disc rot is something specific that only happens with certain types of disc manufacturing (within a reasonable period of time, anyway. It's possible other discs might decay 50-100 years from now). It has to do with the reflective layer not being sealed within the plastic layers well, so the layers start peeling apart. It mainly affects older CDs and laserdiscs, but there are a handful of crappy DVDs that also get hit by it.

>An anime BD usually contains 2 episodes

why?

its because the plastic or glue or whatever degrades over time, especially when exposed to UV. plastics aren't stable now but back then they were still real shit.

So you have to buy 6 volumes for a 1cour show?