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- From: jayj@fc.hp.com (Jay Johannes (Lvld))
- Subject: Re: Laser Wonderland in Japan
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:12:04 GMT
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- Paco Ojeda (ffoogg@macmailgw.dfci.harvard.edu) wrote:
-
- : *1941, a movie by Spielberg that, for some strange reason, was never
- : released on disc in the US (and a very funny one!).
- Almost. I have this on disc as an early CAV Discovision Release.
-
- :
- : My friend told me of all the many different discs he found, and yet,
- : musical releases are somewhat limited in the US in comparison. This is
- : quite surprising, considering that discs are more expensive in Japan than
- : in the US.
- Huh? I visited Japan about 18 months ago, and my experience was that
- prices there were comparable to slightly lower. They tended to have a
- second release of titles at a lower price. I also found nice sets of
- musical releases which never made the US, including collections of '60s
- rock videos, The Concert for Bengla Desh, a Newport Jazz festival disc,
- etc. Also some wonderful autosport discs including F1 and World Rally
- Cup.
-
- :
- : So what can we do as "hooked" laserdiscs consumers? Who can we write to
- : increase laserdisc distribution in the US, particularly when it comes to
- : music?
- I would suggest you find one of the stores which has a Japaneese
- Connection and ask them to import some titles in your interest areas.
- These stores are currently importing Disney, anime and action movies which
- are not available here. I expect that they would be very willing to
- import to your specs if you promise to buy what they get. The warning is
- that the price tends to double as it goes through the process. Discs I
- saw over there for 4800 yen, were selling here for $80-$100. (exchange
- rate was about 135 then).
-
- Jay
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