On 07/28/2016 08:32 AM, Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Yes, some of the discs have a touch laser rot... at least a visible colored wave. None are extreme though, not as bad as this: https://psap.library.illinois.edu/assets/laserdisc-rot01-1500-d1baafba0c9e1e... They're early discs, branded as MCA Disco Vision.
Here's what one of the discs did in my player. When the machine reached a bad spot in the disc it would give up after a moment. If I used the jog control sometimes I could skip over the bad part:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgF9BalTHSY
This was one of the older discs, but despite having some rot it still played acceptably:
Unfortunately me and my laserdisc players are on the wrong side of the country these days, but I just have to say, the opening to that second one is amazing...