{"id":97391,"date":"2019-04-04T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=97391"},"modified":"2019-05-03T08:15:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:15:55","slug":"blade-runner-on-laserdisc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/blade-runner-on-laserdisc\/","title":{"rendered":"All Deckard Out: A History of Blade Runner on Laserdisc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner<\/em> may not have set the theatrical box office on fire back in 1982, but the film found enough of a cult audience on home video to warrant multiple releases on the Laserdisc format between 1983 to 1993. Over the years, I’ve collected most of them.
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I don’t have much call to actually watch Laserdiscs in my home theater anymore. In fact, my LD player isn’t even currently connected to anything. Nevertheless, I continue to hang onto a collection of discs largely for sentimental reasons. At some point, I became obsessed with obtaining every NTSC Laserdisc edition of Blade Runner<\/em>. Recently, I had a desire to pull them off the shelf to take a good look at their cover art.<\/p>\n

Much to the disappointment of my completist impulse, I can’t claim to own literally every<\/em> LD release of the movie. Some are very obscure and hard to find, and I stopped short of importing PAL Laserdiscs from Europe. What I do have are the majority of releases from the United States and Japan, covering all the different versions of the film up through the 1992 Director’s Cut. (Obviously, Laserdisc was long dead before the 2007 Final Cut came to exist. I have that one on HD DVD, Blu-ray, and Ultra HD.) <\/p>\n

As a refresher, the edits of the movie break down as follows:<\/p>\n