Companies use crap compression and production techniques on DVDs and LDs had much higher standards, and thus, they have better picture quality
, behold, behemoth discs are behemoth for a reason!! (lol)...They're basically big CDs, they use the same optics, but on a larger scale (that's why they can natively run CDs). LDs do not have crap advertising of protection techniques that screw us all over (ever heard of region codes on DVDs??-not on LDs), and lots of things are only avaliable on LD, not just science movies, Original Star Wars (already said), original Akira in full blown glory (new version is nice, but I like the old one)...etc. LD can't be beat, considering how cheaply discs run these days, since nobody knows about it.
DVD is newer, so it's automatically "better" than LD.
Theta's Voyager is a $5500 LD Transport, it rocks your world, but I don't know anybody personally that has that kind of money...SO, I'm going to go used
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