I'm glad you have other hobbies like riding motorcycles rather than watching movies.
I have a husband who is seriously ill and lives in a wheelchair and oxygen 24 hours a day. We seek enjoyment wherever we can get it... and that includes our library of LD movies.
The world is big..
>>I have a husband who is seriously ill and lives in a wheelchair and oxygen 24 hours a day. We seek enjoyment wherever we can get it... and that includes our library of LD movies.
The world is big..<<
...and if you have DVD's instead of LV's, your home will be "bigger" with the storage space you reclaim...
Sure worked for me.
To clarify: If I still had an extensive collection of LV's and a player to play them on, I would continue using it, just as I did with my Beta machine and tapes.
However, I have a DVD player in my music studio for which I paid $39 new! I use it to play mp3's and CD's. On rare occasion I will play a movie through it. BTW, It is even progressive scan.
If I were you, I certainly wouldn't buy any LV's at this point. I would get a DVD player (for the price of a movie or two) and make sure all my new movies are DVD. And I highly recommend the Pawn shops for DVD's, the selection can be amazing and most will guarantee the playability. And you will notice from my posts that you can get some real classics as well as a lot (I mean A LOT) of modern garbage...
This is all assuming that you are not a "collector" of movies, but a person who likes to watch movies. If you simply MUST have such and such version of a movie,then all bets are off. I get the impression that is not where you are coming from. 8^>