One of my Christmas treats from Amazon (£3.99 P&P included) was the DVD of this - My God it is still a great movie, both funny and frightening; terribly well done. If you've never seen it or, like me, not for ages, it is well worth getting.

In the wonderful Disc 2 John Landis reveals he got many of his cast from the RSC's Nicholas Nickleby - which I thought was the greatest theatrical experience I've ever had (I wondered where I knew John Woodvine from).

Love it, particularly for Rik Mayall in the opening few minutes - silent!

Never forgave John Woodvine for mucking up the final line on stage in the title role of Volpone many years ago.

I love the movie I bought the dvd a few years back but sadly I lost it. Till I went to a chairty shop to get videos bought it for 20p I still buy videos as not all movies are released on dvd.

Couple of months ago me and my mate Alan was walking along the cliffs of Dover and singing the Santa Maria song and saying things like stay off the moores.

We got alot of looks from tourists and I said to someone 'Excuse me that a friend of mine' Which is a funny line when they are all in the adult theatre.

The video is a great and got a trailer for Mcvicker at the end and which I have on video.

VHS has rich and sharper sound than DVD but picture just bit grainy but still I got massive stack of videos and get alot of comments about it as my mates threw them out along with their VCR's. People ask me does it run on a hamster wheel or coal.

Video? I've still got a working Betamax machine!

I love to own a betamax as picture is sharper does anyone know why laserdisk was a flop ?

andrew wrote:
I love to own a betamax as picture is sharper does anyone know why laserdisk was a flop ?

I used to have a betamax machine, or more precisely my parents did. the Sound and picture quality was better than vhs, however I beleive the tapes were restricted to 2 hours long (this may not be accurrate). I still use my vhs regularly, I recorded all the I love 70s and 80's programmes from around 10 years ago, and they are not available on dvd so there is no other option. The problem with sky+ is that the medium isn't portable and the capacity is very limited. Laserdisk was a failure because you weren't able to record on it, so therefore people didn't really see the benefit over vhs. Also the media capacity was large and not user friendly. The technology is basically the same as dvd, except the storage capacity is much larger on dvd for a smaller disk. Blu-ray doesn't seem to be taking off very quickly, the picture is obviously better than dvd, but you can barely tell the difference unless you have a 42in screen or above.

I'm afraid I was partly responsible for the collapse of Laserdisc - I advised Sir Edward Lewis, when I was running Decca, to pull out of our arrangement with TelDec to continue with them for one reason only - the lack of ability to record on them.

Thank you for all of this Blockbuster Video show trailers of Blu-Ray movies on a 24 inch tele which don't don't do no justice I'm happy with my Sony Trinton Wide which I Step Brother gave to me free.

I know DVD's were hard to take off and hard to get the public attention as only a few films were avalible, prices were and DVD players were very expensive.

I remember my Dad getting DVD magazines and I looked throught it and it was £400 plus for a player our first DVD player cost £300 plus another £50 or so for the multi region chip.

But after a few years people liked the quality of a DVD than VHS people liked the extras on the disk then it took off with a boom you could get budget machines cheap movies, and safe on storage space.

The only thing is VHS has better sound than DVD.

I have a fifty inch plasma, and I can tell you that nothing looks better than Blu-ray.

One day I get Hd TV Blu-ray DVD player and HDMI cable but I like to see more classic and obsecure movies released on them first.

Surely laser disc technology wasn't invented til the early 90s n'est-ce pas?

From Wikipedia

The TED system was more or less a predecessor of the more successful optical Philips Laserdisc video system, as the TED system employed the idea of using FM instead of AM for storing the video signal on a disc for the first time.
The TED video-disc player used a piezo-electric pick-up cartridge with a diamond stylus, mechanically sampling the frequency-modulated, PAL-encoded A/V-signal from thousands of concentric grooves, vertically recorded into the surface of a very thin, flexible vinyl disc. The disc was freely rotating on a thin cushion of air between the disc and a fixed plate at 1500rpm (25Hz), the disc being stabilized only by centrifugal force. The sampling frequency of the combined audio/video signal was about 2.7MHz. Maximum video playing time was 10 minutes on a 210 mm disc, amounting to about 15,000 concentric grooves on the disc, each storing two half-frame PAL-video-lines.