I don't suppose another run of limited editions?

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Dragons Lair Limited Edition (limited production run)
My original disc is dying from laser rot i believe. Nothing apparent or visible - no scratches, just skips, hesitates, freezes at lizard king level thus ending all gameplay.
I'm thinking alot of these old Laser discs will meet this same fate.
I'd heard no is capable of manufacturing laser discs any longer, but it would sure be nice as this dead-ends alot of OEM laser games.
Seen just a couple of these 25th anniv discs running for 3-400$. Lotta dough for a disc.
 
I think, long term, the only thing that will keep our games going is emulation. Something like the FPGA boards with the correct pinout to plug into the harness. Maybe the simpler games can be kept running through our lifetimes, but games with custom chips or things that wear out and are irreplaceable like Laser Discs are probably doomed.

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there is a guy working on a fix that will allow you to plug a board/device in place of the laser disk player so there will no longer be a need for the laser disk or player at all. Other than this it will use original hardware. I sat in on his presentation at CAX. Not sure on his time frame to have a finished product but I'm pretty sure it's definitely coming. I believe he was originally involved with creating the daphne system.
 
My laser player arrived yesterday, I'm also in need of a disk if ever they get done.

I would find it hard to believe they can't be burned these days.

Well if someone does them, here is 2 x sales at least

Any more?
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Laserdiscs were pressed, not burned and they are 12" plus they use analogue video. All of this rules out small run or even home production....

Unless a production line has been shipped to China (like happened for radio/amp tubes)....but I think alternative hardware is a better bet...
 
Somebody will come up with a modern way to do it, like with a blueray player or something. If they can put hard drives on flash cards they can put laser disc files on something else eventually too. It's just who will take the incredible amount of time it'll take to make something like that happen?
 
It's been a while, but I do recall seeing a Laserdisc burner similar to a DVD burner on ebay selling within the last year. The price is exuberant and I sincerely doubt that the blank media is available, but if it meant enough to you it would be possible. I'm really not if it used an optical burn or an EM burn. From what I understand, the EM burned discs were the most susceptible to laser rot back in the day and anyone who has a laserdisc collection can tell you that the disc with the silver album covers used this system. I think they were called discovision or something. Of course, I could be remembering things wrong or I could just be full of crap. I never can tell. ;)
 
Go on with your bad self. I'm still broke from your Amplifone project. Keep in mind, I still haven't started building the first one. Great work by the way. And thanks for the heat shrink.
 
Well maybe I'll be ok for a little while, I broke out the rubbing compound again last night and I may have actually hit the area I needed to. I watched on TV the entire thing, and for once in a long time, it didn't skip or hesitate. Now my G07 has blown up and I think I will try a flyback on it next. I just finished recapping that NTSC board too, so I can't say yet that my disc is now 100% or not. Stupid G07's...grr
 
O wow, never knew these actually existed. As an excuse I will say that I'm from Europe, and although the Laserdisc was even invented in my country, it always stayed a niche market during its existence.
 
Someone somewhere has to be sitting on a burner + media and just doesn't realize there's a huge untapped market for back-up disc.

I think the player communication is typical RS232, I'd say an adapter + flash card is the best route. Throw some extra dips on it, a Xilinx PLCC and have compatibility to replace all the players.

Hmmm......
 
My understanding is that there are no more laser disk manufacturers. IIRC, DL is the last disk that the last company that made these created before they closed.
 
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