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 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
PostPosted: 05 Oct 2013, 22:23 
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The CLD-1010 is very compact.
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 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
PostPosted: 05 Oct 2013, 23:51 
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When thinking about lightweight players, I think the DVL 919 is quite lightweight. It's like a feather compared to my CLD 95.

Which reminds me: earlier this year I carried two 3080s at once, and I think they weigh 30lbs each.
  
 
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PostPosted: 06 Oct 2013, 00:04 
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When thinking about lightweight players, I think the DVL 919 is quite lightweight. It's like a feather compared to my CLD 95.

Which reminds me: earlier this year I carried two 3080s at once, and I think they weigh 30lbs each.



Huh, so two 3080s make one LD-S2 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
  
 
 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
PostPosted: 06 Oct 2013, 05:32 
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it takes a real man to carry a real LDP...
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PostPosted: 06 Oct 2013, 05:33 
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tasuke wrote:
it takes a real man to carry a real LDP...


OR, a stupid old man :shock: :roll: :lolno:
  
 
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PostPosted: 06 Oct 2013, 15:27 
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jpass992 wrote:
When thinking about lightweight players, I think the DVL 919 is quite lightweight. It's like a feather compared to my CLD 95.

Which reminds me: earlier this year I carried two 3080s at once, and I think they weigh 30lbs each.



Huh, so two 3080s make one LD-S2 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:


Haha, I wish. Hmmmm, or how about carrying 2 CLD 95s 1 CLD 97? Wonder what kind of mega player that would be :D
  
 
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PostPosted: 11 Oct 2013, 21:32 
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The Pioneer LD-838D is probably the shortest player I've seen.
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 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
PostPosted: 12 Oct 2013, 03:09 
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blam1 wrote:
The Pioneer LD-838D is probably the shortest player I've seen.



i once owned one of those, probably is just about the lowest profile of any LDP ever made, irrespective of brand.
it's also quite possibly the shallowest in depth, as well.

PIONEER's engineers were really busting their asses to attempt to attain a VCR-like form factor and design
for their more popularly priced LDP offerings for a little while there, back around '86/'88...
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 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
PostPosted: 12 Oct 2013, 19:56 
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I agree DVL-919 is very light. HLD-X0 is very heavy at 80lbs. I had to call my cabinets manufacturer to double check if it would handle it. If pioneer was still developing/making LD players it would have to be top loading in order to make it small but then it would be single sided. no one would buy single sided player that's probably why pioneer stopped making LD players:)
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 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
PostPosted: 13 Oct 2013, 00:48 
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Well maybe not. I remember the Sharp record player I seen in the store here. Played both sides of the record without turning it over. One needle was mounted inside the lift up lid, and the other needle was mounted on the bottom. The platter the record sat on was about the size of record label. I have a Sharp verticle standing turntable with 2 needles and works quite well.

So a low profile LD player with a lift up lid with a laser in the bottom part and another laser also mounted on the lid for both sides play. Although having 2 lasers would make the price higher, but it would work.
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 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
PostPosted: 13 Oct 2013, 06:40 
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Yeah - I think something V2800 size with (dual pickup?) dual-side play would've been the next step, but AFAIK the V2800 was the last 'new' hardware design.
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 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
PostPosted: 19 Jan 2015, 19:45 
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Random splunking found this - probably the smallest gas tube player. A second generation Philips design, so it looks like it can be talked into working. Maybe.

http://www.fingers-welt.de/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=1358&p=23876
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 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
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nextwednesday wrote:
I saw one of these CL-J75LD things on the bay here in the UK a couple of months ago and very nearly bought it out of pure curiosity. The seller wasn't asking much but annoyed me by not answering any of my very basic questions about it like what i/o there was and whether it was even working. Anyone have any experience of them?

I saw that one too, unfortunately a very unhelpful vendor. I think it may have been the same one that was advertised much earlier in the year as non-working; someone bought it, couldn't fix it, and tried to sell it on.
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 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
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This subject reminds me of a thought I've occasionally had: imagine a portable LD player like those portable DVD player in a laptop layout.
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 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
PostPosted: 18 Jul 2018, 18:29 
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Yeah - I think something V2800 size with (dual pickup?) dual-side play would've been the next step, but AFAIK the V2800 was the last 'new' hardware design.


The V2800 actually uses the same LD player mechanism as the DVL-919, except without the dual side playback. I've actually taken the pickup out of a broken DVL-919 and installed it into the CLD-V2800 to bring it back to life.
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 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
PostPosted: 19 Jul 2018, 08:26 
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tasuke wrote:
nah, the V2800 is just about the most compact LDP ever made... and one of the all-round ugliest as well, YMMV as always;


I kind of think it’s cute. Would be great for tight spaces even though it’s hard to fathom anyone having that issue if one already has a huge library of LDs’. ;)

However, that remote is a total turn off.
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 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
PostPosted: 19 Jul 2018, 17:30 
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I actually like the look of the V2800.
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PostPosted: 19 Jul 2018, 19:32 
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nah, the V2800 is just about the most compact LDP ever made... and one of the all-round ugliest as well, YMMV as always;


I kind of think it’s cute. Would be great for tight spaces even though it’s hard to fathom anyone having that issue if one already has a huge library of LDs’. ;)

However, that remote is a total turn off.


Yes, the "industrial" remote is a piece of crap, visually. A standard Pioneer CLD remote will work on the V2800 as well.
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 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
PostPosted: 19 Jul 2018, 20:29 
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Oh man, I love the industrial remotes! I have the really huge one and the slightly huger one, at least one of which will run wired.
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 Post subject: Re: What is the most compact LD player ever made?
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It would be the elusive Sharp QT 93V Boombox.
As it is a Boombox it is literally the only most true portable laserdisc device, though for only the 5" discs then.
I own a few CDV only players, but although they are smaller than LD players, they are still decks. They are just CD decks in fact packed with a bulk of videocircuitry to play only a few minutes of video :D
Also the 8" only models are not true portable in the sense of personal stereo type of thing, rather more module type of things.
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