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| toyfreaks |
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Posted: 26 Jul 2012, 09:20
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The Beatles: Yellow Submarine (1968) [ML106160]
Just got this in trade from a FaceBook buddy. I had only ever seen Yellow Submarine twice before. Once in a 1970's broadcast on a small TV at a friend's house. An other time on VHS, played on a 17 inch Magnavox console. To say I was blown away by this 1999 disc would be an understatement. This movie has obviously inspired artists from Terry Gilliam to Ralph Bakshi, early animators on Sesame Street, MTV, Schoolhouse Rocks, etc... This reminds me of the first time I watched a familiar show on a color TV. So different, so many more nuances. I had no idea the colors were so vivid, the scenes so full of movement. The 4:3 pan & scan version does no justice to this monument of hand-drawn animation.
Video: The master used for this issue is extremely clean, probably printed just for this transfer. The depth and vividness of color are really remarkable for a film that was 30 years old when this transfer was recorded. I suppose a broadly painted animated film is a best case scenario for a 1-disc CLV title. Overall, there is less information detail to display, so it does so efficiently. There are very few artifacts apart from some interlacing when some psychedelic field of color is strobing green-red for example. My Pioneer CLD-D702 just couldn't figure out what to do with that rapid flicker.
Audio: The Dolby Digital track is so crisp and clear with really thick bass and bright brassy top notes. My sub rattled when the Glove made his fly-by. This release uses stereo to it's full effect on songs like Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds. The swirling psychedelic sound is awesome. I had forgotten how much extra soundtrack George Martin produced for this film. If you are a big fan of the "fifth Beatle" as I am, you will appreciate the breadth of this man's work. There's no info on the jacket about the audio source, but it's hard to believe this came from an optical strip on film. I have to believe it was resourced from the original masters/. |
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| elieb |
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Posted: 08 Jul 2015, 23:39
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| do you have ANY surround speakers hooked up? |
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| ldfan |
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Posted: 24 Jul 2018, 09:54
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It appears you might just have what the error indicates; the focus is off on the laser.
As laser pick-ups age and lose some of their light output, this could be the beginning of the end for it. However, you could also just open up the player and see if you could find trimpots with some labeling that say things like “t-gain” (tracking gain) or even “focus offset”. You should take pics of the pots current position before messing with them and only turn them very slightly to see if any noticeable improvements occur.
Another issue is possibly check the overall alignment of the mechanism itself. I once acquired a CLD-D704 that had tracking issues near the end of a disc on side A and constant skipping on side B. A technician I brought it to said it would need a new laser pick-up at a cost of $400. I said no way and just stored the unit in the meantime to possibly get a 2nd opinion at some point. A few months later, I acquired a CLD-D703 that worked perfectly so I decided to compare it to the 704 to see if I would notice anything odd. Almost right away, I did observe that the 704’s entire gamma turn assembly was a bit crooked. Thus, I basically grabbed it with my hand and slowly started to bend the entire assembly until it looked more like the 703. Low and behold, after a few days of tweaking and testing, the 704 was totally perfect and never skipped again on either side of a disc.
So lesson learned from me; don’t always trust a repair shop cause you never know if they’re dishonest on purpose to try and make a buck or they might simply be a moron. In addition, try to have another similar machine around cause seeing a working example can help one glean some hint on what is happening (I also fixed a friend’s 703 that was damaged in shipping by comparing my unit to his; he had a damaged plastic part that adjusted the tilt of the carriage assembly).
Hope some of this might help you out. |
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