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Author Topic: Movies on CAV laserdiscs are a pain to watch! Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 05-20-2003 02:23 AM                  Paul: For home use, over the years I have bought other Pioneer LaserDisc players before I finally upgraded to this one about 5 years ago. I have always preferred Pioneer LaserDisc players for personal use as well as in my professional applications. Their engineering dept was great when I had a specific issue with syncing multiple players. They even put a special "set-up-screen" choice in their commercial players called the Iwerks Mod just for me. Pioneer co-invented the system...pushed it big time...and it was THE player-brand for video games...like "Dragon's Lair" and others from that time period. (Sony, as usual, sucked!) Sometimes while at home, I would have to review and check many of Iwerks' Show LaserDiscs I had made...also, I have a large collection of "commercial" movie discs. The player has got a lot of use over the years. I have NEVER had any problem with it at all. It always performed flawlessly and with a great picture and great sound. The auto "changeover" to the other side is great for movies! >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 05-20-2003 02:28 AM                        Paul. The very first DVD player I bought was a DVD/Laserdisc combo player, the Pioneer DVL-700 I picked up in February 1997 - one month before DVDs went on Sale for the first time. Actually, the first DVDs went on sale in late February a few weeks before Warner Brothers and their affiliated labels released discs in seven test market cities. These very first titles were from Lumivision and included "RAIN FORREST", an IMAX film and a disc of Canadian award winning animated shorts. The DVL 700 is now used for laserdisc playback only and my progressive scan Panasonic DVD RP-62 is used for DVD. I once had about a thousand laserdiscs but sold most of them but I still have many titles that will most likely never be released on DVD in the near future or ever. I also have about fifty two DTS laserdiscs and I agree, DTS on the larger discs does blow away DVD's DTS sound. Although I disagree to the statement that laserdiscs are better, I still enjoy watching movies on those large discs. As far as picture quality, DVD is much better because of it's film like quality picture. -Claude [ 05-20-2003, 04:38 AM: Message edited by: Claude S. Ayakawa ]  |  IP: Logged Paul Howard Film Handler Posts: 26 From: Huyton, Liverpool, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 05-20-2003 09:22 AM                     quote: I disagree that laserdiscs are better. You are correct Claude, DVD is exceptionally better at images than LD. I remember being a huge anti DVD person when they first arrived "how could anything replace LD." Now DVD is commonplace and has itself firmly anchoured as a main format, alot more than laserdisc ever did. The only main problem with DVD here in the UK is the sped up frame rate. eg, Captian Picard sometimes sounds like he is on helium. As a result most of my discs are region 1. I suppose my support for LD is purely daft sentimentality, I do now love DVD, plus those 12 inch discs would never fit into a Blockbuster drop box.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 05-20-2003 01:39 PM                     I bought a combo LD/DVD player so I wouldn't feel so bad about killing off laserdisc with the new format  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-20-2003 08:17 PM                     Paul, the CLD-D704 and the CLD-900 have almost nothing in common. The CLD 900 was notorious for having trouble, as it aged, when switching from CD to LD. The Tracking is also notably inferior to any the CLD-D series.. (CLD-D700 - CLD-D704) Steve  |  IP: Logged

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