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How do laser disc's look on plasma TV?

A friend of mine like me has alot of laser disc movies and he says when he plays them on his Plasma they don't look right. I would think it would have to do with the lines of resolution on the Plasma vs. the 400+ on the laser disc. Is this a good guess.
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jdcrox
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Another issue with widescreen LD's on a 16:9 TV is that they are not anamorphically enhanced, so they will often come out "windowboxed", with "black bars" on all 4 sides of the picture, unless you zoom the picture. This zooming further reduces quality.
John
jdcrox
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Early LD's had analog audio tracks only. In the late '80's PCM digital tracks were added. Any player I am aware made after that point will play both the analog and digital soundtracks.
As Rwwear says, if it has Dolby Digital (it will usually say AC3 on the back). And it will require the special player/demodulator. Dolby digital discs still have the PCM digital tracks in case you do not have a DD player.
And yes, the video is FM-modulated analog.
John
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