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other guy answers at the beginning of side 2!) but it's still OK to me<br />
since that's where the reel ended.<br />
Movies on the Vestron label are really amusing because they always tried<br />
to cram as much as they could on side 1, sometimes they didn't even stop<br />
at the end of the reel, just took it as long as they could til the end of<br />
the side, the time counter often reaches 60 on these before it ends. This<br />
gives really short sides to short movies; I have The Lenny Bruce<br />
Performance Film and "The <strong>Magic</strong> Pony," both of which are under 75<br />
minutes, so side 2 of these runs under 15 minutes! It's funny to look at<br />
the surfaces of these discs and see how little space was used. I have<br />
"Tempest" and "Never Say Never Again" which are 2-disc sets of movies<br />
that ran just slightly over 2 hours, and side 3 of these is also very<br />
short. Most discs seem to spread over sides more evenly, but these are<br />
exceptions!<br />
BTW, why didn't they make a special "Turn Disc Over" type of message for<br />
unused sides, like side 4 of a 3-sided movie for example? Considering the<br />
market <strong>CED</strong> was intended for it seems it would have been ideal, rather<br />
than just having an "End" code immediately at the start of the side, I<br />
bet this caused a lot of people to think their players were broken!<br />
Laserdiscs always have interesting stuff on their unused sides, the<br />
funniest is the upside-down turtle, others have generic printed messages<br />
saying "Program Material is recorded only on the other side of this<br />
disc." Since my laserdisc player is autoreverse, these sides come up by<br />
themselves after the end of the movie, and for some strange reason I<br />
always let them play through before putting the disc away!<br />
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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 12:50:56 -0600<br />
<strong>From</strong>: David Potochick<br />
To: ceds@teleport.com<br />
Subject: <strong>CED</strong> Digest Vol. 2 No. 19 -Reply<br />
Woah.... Finally someone agrees with me on DVD..... I'm not crazy... I still<br />
don't see how DVD is going to sell..... Yes they're smaller than LD's but<br />
the picture quality is really grainy.... I went back to Best Buy after<br />
another writer to this <strong>CED</strong> page told me that I probably saw a flawed<br />
disc. Well, I saw another disc and it looked pixelated.... I'm not impressed<br />
with DVD at all.... I see it going the way of the <strong>CED</strong>...<br />
I think when <strong>CED</strong>'s came out the sales pitch had to do with <strong>CED</strong> being the<br />
best thing there was at that time. VHS tapes were a lot more expensive<br />
back then from what I remember and <strong>CED</strong>'s were selling for a lot<br />
cheaper. You also have to remember that in the early days of the Laser<br />
disc there were a lot of flawed LD's. I read somewhere that there was a<br />
90% return rate for the old Discovision LD's.... They simply didn't have<br />
the technology perfected back then....<br />
I'll have to come up with my own Best / Worst disk side endings.... So far<br />
my favorite is still "Raiders Of The Lost Ark".... I was the one that<br />
pointed that out a couple of Editions ago..... As for the worst.... I'll have
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