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 Post subject: Inside the Theta Voyager
PostPosted: 25 Sep 2017, 19:42 
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Saw some talk of Theta's in another post so here is my look inside the Theta Voyager -

https://youtu.be/mnypaK1E4N0
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 Post subject: Re: Inside the Theta Voyager
PostPosted: 25 Sep 2017, 23:08 
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Very cool thanks.

Perhaps the only chance I will ever get to see the guts/changes made on one of these.

Very helpful & thanks again.

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PostPosted: 26 Sep 2017, 03:45 
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pbiancardi wrote:
Saw some talk of Theta's in another post so here is my look inside the Theta Voyager


Very nice!

It will give me stuff to work on to design a comprehensive LD Player database section: so many connector types I didn't know existed for LD players!

Substance had a run-down of all Theta player insides here (in Theta Voyager Universal transport):

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Data 1 is philips cdv400. An opamp buffer at the digital audio out. That's it.
Data 2 is cld-701. No upgrades. Maybe same buffer at the digital out?
Data 3 is cld-704. No upgrades but aes digital output added. Att optical added.
Voyager (version 1) is dvl-919. New power supplies. Seperate supply for audio and video.
Voyager (version 2) is dvl-919. All above plus optional sil503/4 (dvdo) deinterlacing board, optional sdi output.


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 Post subject: Re: Inside the Theta Voyager
PostPosted: 26 Sep 2017, 12:23 
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pbiancardi wrote:
Saw some talk of Theta's in another post so here is my look inside the Theta Voyager


Very nice!

It will give me stuff to work on to design a comprehensive LD Player database section: so many connector types I didn't know existed for LD players!

Substance had a run-down of all Theta player insides here (in Theta Voyager Universal transport):

substance wrote:
Data 1 is philips cdv400. An opamp buffer at the digital audio out. That's it.
Data 2 is cld-701. No upgrades. Maybe same buffer at the digital out?
Data 3 is cld-704. No upgrades but aes digital output added. Att optical added.
Voyager (version 1) is dvl-919. New power supplies. Seperate supply for audio and video.
Voyager (version 2) is dvl-919. All above plus optional sil503/4 (dvdo) deinterlacing board, optional sdi output.


Julien


I think that might be old info, Theta Data II is the Philips CDV400 (I can confirm I had one), the Theta Data III is 704 (or 99 who knows) and the Theta Voyager he would know because I got it from him :).

I have never seen a Data I though I know it exists - http://thetadigital.com/legacy_products.shtml#data maybe the Data I and II were both Philips??

I think Substance still has the Voyager with the deinterlacing board, maybe he will see this and post some pics.
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 Post subject: Re: Inside the Theta Voyager
PostPosted: 30 Sep 2017, 14:39 
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A bit crude actually by just squeezing the body of the original player inside a new body.
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PostPosted: 30 Sep 2017, 14:43 
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therussian wrote:
A bit crude actually by just squeezing the body of the original player inside a new body.


Yeah Ilja it's no 315 :lol:
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 Post subject: Re: Inside the Theta Voyager
PostPosted: 14 Mar 2018, 02:09 
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Saw a post on avsforum selling one in 2013 for a measly £100 and that kinda gives me hope that maybe I could get one at some point, too! Granted that was five years ago and the listing was collect only, but I might've been willing to toss another 100 quid at him to ship it.

Question is, why would I want one? What makes these machines special?
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 Post subject: Re: Inside the Theta Voyager
PostPosted: 14 Mar 2018, 04:32 
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The Theta's are for people wanting audiophile quality Audio outputs. Theta improvements were not in the Video circuits other that lessening the load as the power supply only drives the video circuits.

It all depends on what you are looking for.
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