Wondering if this is normal playing laserdiscs on a lcd television?

Shimmer is the best word I can use to describe it.

how long have you had laserdiscs????
is this something that you just got into being all into analog or have you had it for sometime now??


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Just got into it again. Had laserdiscs a few years ago but then I had a crt tv.

Probably not a great comb filter in the TV. What's your setup?

edit: Looking at your posts - out of the PAL/NTSC combo players, the 925 and DVL's are the only ones that don't mash a NTSC disk into bits - and they're not even that great at playing NTSC. Most of the others including the 515 mangle NTSC with a 1D comb filter and a 3.2mhz low-pass filter (i.e. 250-260 lines) and then recombine the result. Even though the in the case of the 315, there's only composite output!

If it was possible to bypass that NTSC->PAL conversion circuit (I don't think robwhar succeeded on his S315) the 515's quality should be about equal to a 406 - i.e. good if you have something good with dealing with NTSC to plug it into.

I have a Sony 32" LCD tv 32W705B. My LD player is a CLD-D515. It has composit, S-Video and scart outputs as well as various digital audio outs. I use the composit output because surely the comb filter in the TV is better, right? When playing NTSC discs(all my discs are NTSC) I don't output PAL 60 I use pure NTSC(at least I think I do).

Only thing is the sound is very low. I don't know how to increase the sound on the player. Is it adjustable? I don't have the manual or the original remote for it.

Try the S-Video, then and see if it works better. I don't think there's any sound level control - if you can have digital sound wired from the player to the TV then disks with digital audio will have the disk's natural volume.

edit: ... but the 515 doesn't have s-video. No reference to it in the service manual or this:

http://www.laserdiscarchive.co.uk/laser ... 5_rear.jpg

And the TV doesn't have it either, as far as I can tell...

I know my tv doesn't have a s-video input. I would use scart but the scart on the tv is already used by a dvd player.

SCART on the 515's composite only anyway, there's no RGB circuit at all.

It doesn't make any difference then does it.