Tripple Tribble Trouble

[ffutures]

Prompted by a recent post by dafnap

I have a fairly large collection of laserdisks, mostly bought when they were being sold off at 4 quid a shot by the main UK distributor.
About the most treasured is one called "Triple Tribble Trouble", which has "The Trouble with Tribbles" and the first half of the animated story "More Tribbles, More Trouble" on side A, and the rest of the animated story then the DS9 episode "Trials & Tribbleations" on side B.

As far as I know it isn't available on DVD, if I'm wrong I'd love to know. I really don't want to buy the season collections when there are only a handful of episodes I like that much, this particular theme disk has two of the four or five episodes I really like. But my laserdisk player is getting old, and nobody has them for sale any more, sooner or later I'll have to do without.

I could get it copied onto DVD for myself but I suspect it'd be crap quality and expensive, and my DVD player is so old I'm not even sure it'll play recordable DVDs!

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[sirernest.livejournal.com]

still have an old PAL LD player ... but no LDs and no idea if it's even working still *sigh*

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I've learned to be cautious about this. First off, is it a laserdisk player or a videodisk player - the two are VERY different beasties, videodisk was a weird format that used something like a giant floppy disk. They are pretty much useless.

If it is laserdisk, does it have digital sound? If not, probably might as well dump it, very few disks will work. Does it play double sided, and can it manage NTSC disks?

If you know the make / model number I can look it up, there are some good sites for that sort of thing. Then if you're interested in playing with it I can probably sort out a disk or two I don't want, so you can see if it works.

[sirernest.livejournal.com]

it's a Pioneer LD-V4100. as far as I could discern it must have been built around 1987 or so and only plays PAL discs

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Funny coincidence time...

Took a look at the page for that player, realised that the pictures looked familiar. Scrolled down it and realised that the reason it looked familiar was that I'd given the archive the pictures! It's the player I used to have which is PAL and non-digital sound only.

http://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laserdisc_archive/pioneer/pioneer_ld-v4100/pioneer_ld-v4100.htm

I think I gave mine away to a charity shop - Geranium Fund for the Blind. That isn't where you got yours, is it?

In all honesty it's pretty useless. About 90% of laserdiscs won't have any sound if they're played on it. Nevertheless, I can probably find a disk or two that'd work, if you want to see it in all its glory. Let me know.

[sirernest.livejournal.com]

Actually... I might even go for that.

And I got mine on the continent, without all the additional toys or manuals...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Will you be at the Continuum RPG con next month? If not, and if you're in the UK (can't remember) e-mail your postal address and I'll send you a disk or two. Probably won't be anything very exciting, I'm afraid - can't honestly remember what I have in non-digital format, but it isn't anything very exciting.

[sirernest.livejournal.com]

I will be not and I'm currently on the move. Still in Germany but moving to the UK.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Okay - when you get to the UK remind me, and I'll send you a couple of disks.