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tasuke
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Post subject: Re: CLD-3030 Chassis-based LD players Posted: 05 Apr 2016, 16:56 |
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Joined: 03 Aug 2013, 17:32 Posts: 1573 Location: OREGON, U.S. Has thanked: 3 times Been thanked: 136 times
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yeah, there was just something special about the engineering at the time.
clearly, PIONEER's LDP design team were after a "Sexy" VCR-like low profile when they laid the blueprints down for the CLD-99S and derivatives.
they obviously wanted an LDP design that could imitate the look, feel and function of the then-brand-new high-end DIGITAL SFX VCRs, and took it as a personal challenge to figure out a way to cram everything a high-performance DIGITAL SFX LDP would need into as compact and stylish a package as possible.
i'd say they had achieved their goals with flying colors, as the 99S/3030 chassis is so compact, yet versatile, that they had not only made a high-end LD-only DIGITAL SFX model from it, but a LD/CD/CDV variant, a LaserKaraoke model, and a pro-grade Industrial LD-only model.
they had to design a nightmare of a high-density "VSOP" Video processing PCB to achieve all this, but despite the overwhelming complexity of it all, the design HAS proven itself reliable even after nearly three decades of age.
none of the variants in this series may boast the best overall performance of all the great many LDPs PIONEER produced in the 20 year lifespan of the Laser Videodisc, but few other LDPs designed can approach or match this series' virtuosity of cleverness in engineering and overall design...
_________________ * PIONEER CLD-3030 Compatible LDP (1988) (( http://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3094 ))
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tasuke
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Post subject: Re: CLD-3030 Chassis-based LD players Posted: 17 Aug 2016, 16:09 |
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Joined: 03 Aug 2013, 17:32 Posts: 1573 Location: OREGON, U.S. Has thanked: 3 times Been thanked: 136 times
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someone attempting to sell their CLD-1010 in a -3030 shipping carton. sure wish i had the $130shipped the fellow is asking, my 3030 would finally be well and truly complete, and i'd be getting a 1010 to fun around with for the bargain...
_________________ * PIONEER CLD-3030 Compatible LDP (1988) (( http://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3094 ))
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tasuke
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Post subject: Re: CLD-3030 Chassis-based LD players Posted: 16 Jan 2017, 19:22 |
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Joined: 03 Aug 2013, 17:32 Posts: 1573 Location: OREGON, U.S. Has thanked: 3 times Been thanked: 136 times
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an unusual hybrid, 99S/3030 chassis overall, with a front bezel assy. apparently derived from the 1986 LD-838D.
the 99S/3030 chassis is such a work of high-tech design art, IMO. incredibly adaptable, with so much crammed into such a sleek, VCR-like form factor.
perhaps not the greatest wet-dream to work on, -from a technician's POV, what with it's complex, highly integrated main PCB design and all- but damn if it don't positively exude late-80's high-tech sexyness...
_________________ * PIONEER CLD-3030 Compatible LDP (1988) (( http://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3094 ))
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tasuke
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Post subject: Re: CLD-3030 Chassis-based LD players Posted: 22 Jan 2017, 21:39 |
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Joined: 03 Aug 2013, 17:32 Posts: 1573 Location: OREGON, U.S. Has thanked: 3 times Been thanked: 136 times
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thank you. for me, Home Video tech simply hasn't been any sexier than it was during that all too brief peak period in the late-80's when it seemed every Japanese CE firm was fielding at least one or two superlative "Techno-Fetishistic" -looking TOTL/Near-TOTL VCR models, -many of them SONY BETAMAX decks- and even PIONEER and the tiny handful of fellows offering LDPs were bending over backwards to implement that same styling into much of their product line.
Formidable-looking gear, with scores of buttons and features, -however useless many of them might have been- and equally formidable, key-laden beefy remote "handsets" that is precisely my sort of jam, and was pretty much a last-gasp, short-term design fad amongst Japanese firms from around 1986/1988, with perhaps a bit of carryover to about mid-1989 or so. what a GREAT time to be an A/V enthusiast, especially one with money to burn, though i could imagine how much fun it might have been to peruse CE shops and superstores at the time, providing one could get the hard-sell Salesmen of the time to let them alone long enough to take it all in...
_________________ * PIONEER CLD-3030 Compatible LDP (1988) (( http://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=3094 ))
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je280
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Post subject: Re: CLD-3030 Chassis-based LD players Posted: 13 Jun 2017, 20:36 |
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Joined: 13 Sep 2012, 23:14 Posts: 1199 Location: United Kingdom Has thanked: 265 times Been thanked: 259 times
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tasuke wrote: That is a lovely looking unit, rather handsome. Love the huge remote. Thanks tasuke .
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