A (NOT SO) BREIF WORD ABOUT THIS STRANGE SITE
ABOUT
"""Founded""" in 2021, Liz LaserDisc is a site for those enthusiastic about the LaserDisc format, the first ever optical disc format and the OG film collector's format, launched way back in 1978 (and killed off by DVD in 2001). In other words, whether you're interested in getting into LD, collecting some of the titles I happen to have in my collection, or just into browsing pics and info about interesting vintage tech, I hope to provide some useful information and insights... or at the very, very least show off some awesome cover art. . . .A WORD FROM THE COLLECTOR
Hey there! My name is Liz. I’m a 24 year old trans chick from Colorado and I dig strange and subversive stuff. Liz LaserDisc is an ongoing project of mine, somewhat of an online museum where I can showcase stuff I collect, mainly my LaserDiscs (duh!).
As far as my getting into LD, I've always been interested in old tech and I've been a collector my entire life (I was big into Atari and Nintendo shit back when I was like 10 or 11 and my dad tells me I used to collect sports balls of all varieties when I was tiny). When entering my teenage years I became more and more interested in film, but I never really delved into collecting movies, mostly cuz DVDs aren't particularly exciting.
I first heard of LDs when I was maybe 13, likely from that old Cinemassacre video. I was totally enthused by them, but put zero thought into collecting them. Fast foward to summer of 2020, and I learned that the legendary anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion was released on LD. I eBay'd a player shortly after, and went from intending to just picking up Evangelion to being totally stuck in. The artwork, the picture quality, the gigantic players all just caught my fancy in a major way (not to mention at the time I had just fallen out of love with vinyl LPs).
Essentially, my intention with this site is to inform weirdos such as myself on things that they may be curious about. Compared to, for instance, collecting Nintendo games, LD seems to be a pretty niche hobby, as all you LD nerds know, LaserDisc Database is just about the only online resource for the format. You can go online and figure out pretty much everything about any new Blu-ray or 4K release, but that's not really the case with LD, hence my hope to provide some semblance of useful information and insights.
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If you’ve got any questions, feel free to reach out to me via email @ alexis.bb.brb@gmail.com !!!
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