Thread Number: 79289
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vintage to modern laserdisc players |
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Post# 1032155 , Reply# 1   5/8/2019 at 18:29 (1,813 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)   |   | |
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I have a Pioneer laserdisc player from 1990-motor bearings are worn,but it works ok.I also have a couple RCA CED players-both from 1982,and one hooked up for use. |
Post# 1032703 , Reply# 3   5/15/2019 at 12:52 (1,807 days old) by cadman (Cedar Falls, IA)   |   | |
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Somehow those early top-load LD players keep accumulating while I'm not looking. Last I checked I've got several Magnavisions (as made popular by Leonard Nemoy), Pioneer's VP1000, and the GM dealer DiscoVision PR-7820 along with the woodgrain display.
For serious LD watching, I have a "modern" DVL-909. The big issue today is interfacing with flat panel TV's. The image quality is terrible without a proper converter, though I get a very respectable picture when playing through a home cinema projector. |
Post# 1032989 , Reply# 5   5/18/2019 at 17:26 (1,803 days old) by LowEfficiency (Iowa)   |   | |
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Have you guys seen the video where TechMoan reviews a TOL LaserDisc player?
He makes a very good observation, that although the LaserDiscs represented the very best quality one could have at the time, the actual movie content on the discs is often poor in comparison to that on the equivalent DVD. The key observation though is that this fact has NOTHING to do with any faults in LaserDisc players or the LaserDisc distribution technology itself - it's that decades of time have passed, and we have much better technology for retroactively making new captures/transfers from the original movie film. |