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| cplusplus |
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Posted: 09 Mar 2022, 06:14
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Someone brought me two LDP-1450s not too long ago that wouldn't read discs at all. Sony... didn't do a good job at all with their LD players or discs.
Very small chance it isn't your player. Unplug it, open it up and make sure the lens is clean. |
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Posted: 12 Feb 2023, 06:24
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| This is an older model, no arc suppressor. Try replacing C108, the small 1uf capacitor on the primary side of the power supply. Make sure sure check the part to see the voltage rating of the capacitor. |
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| jeffelledge91 |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2025, 21:14
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Would you have any funny stories from the DADC era to tell?
Did you keep any prototypes or promotional materials?
Julien
It was not funny at the time, but it is now! We glued Terminator to Disney's Fantasia. I can imagine some rich well-to-do family flipping that disc and seeing T1 smashing things naked! LOL The only thing I kept was a few pay stubs and my ID badge. |
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Posted: 15 May 2025, 08:49
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Had to block permanently:
GoogleBot
BingBot
AliCloud SG
AliCloud HK
AliCloud USA
Various IA startup company crawlers
IA companies are truly the scum of internet.
It seems to be something similar to the Reddit effect.
Old forums have value because they span information over many years and are 100% guaranteed human contents.
Now IA bots are mostly hammering the forum and disregarding the main website.
Costing you a fortune in management time/resources... and then selling you your data back.
No thank you.
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Posted: 15 May 2025, 18:41
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Good write up. I like that you seem to approach LD ownership as a DIY hands on adventure. This is the reality of today.
If the belt failed multiple times in the two years you’ve owned the player something went wrong somewhere. That would make it the least reliable player ever which I’m pretty sure it isn’t. |
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Posted: 16 May 2025, 02:25
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| There are no Sony Laseractive players. There is only one, a Pioneer. |
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Posted: 16 May 2025, 07:52
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After attempting to watch the 2007 special edition of Full Metal Jacket with my brother-in-law who has never seen the film, it crapped out the 41:00 mark. So for the past four hours I've been testing the infamous Warner Bros '06-'08 DVDs from my collection for the first time and this is what I found. All bad discs were checked on two different PC DVD drives with DVD Shrink's analyzer. They were also checked on consumer DVD players. There were no variations between tests if they were defective. If it was F upped the first time, it was on all three or four tests. All discs are Dual Layer unless otherwise noted:
GOOD
1) The Wild Bunch (2 Disc Director's Cut) (2006)
2) Body Heat (Deluxe Edition) (2006)
3) Magic Johnson Always Showtime (2 double sided discs) (2006)
4) Stanley Kubrick A Life In Pictures (2007)
5) Caddyshack (2007)
6) Deliverance (Deluxe Edition) (2007)
7) Risky Business (2008)
8) Oakland/LA Raiders: 3 Greatest Games (3 discs) (2008)
DEFECTIVE
1) Detroit Pistons 1988-1989 NBA Champions Motor City Madness (2006)
a) Disc 1 & 3-10 are all defective
b) Disc 2 Full Game and Disc 11 Highlight Film (SL) work,
2) The Shining (2 disc Special Edition) (2007)
a) Disc 1 Film defective, Disc 2 Special Features (SL) GOOD
3) Full Metal Jacket (Special Edition) (2007)
4) 2001 A Space Odyssey (2 disc Special Edition) (2007)
a) Both DL discs are defective
5) Poltergeist (Digitally Restored and Remastered) (2007)
6) Blade Runner (4 Disc Collector's Edition) (2007)
a) Discs 1-3 defective
b) Disc 4 (DL) (Enhancement Archive) GOOD
7) LA Lakers 1984-1985 NBA Championship Return To Glory (2007)
a) Disc 1 (SL) only half of Game 1 on disc & Disc 7 (SL) highlight film GOOD
b) Game discs 2-6 Defective
All defective discs were dual layer and seemed to crash at the layer change if they played at all. Some couldn't be read, period. I was really pissed off about the Detroit Pistons box set because I paid $75 for that and it will probably never be available again. Same for the anamorphic version of Blade Runner International Cut (same as Criterion LaserDisc) on Disc 3 of the Blade Runner set.
The behavior of the defective (pressed) discs was very similar to Dual Layer DVD-r's I burned 15+ years ago. They worked fine at the time, but I tried several of these copies in the last year or so and they can't be read or freeze and/or stutter at the layer change.
I thought most of this was hype because I have watched some of these defective discs in the last few of years or so but sadly it's true. |
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Posted: 18 May 2025, 17:09
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signofzeta wrote: There are no Sony Laseractive players. There is only one, a Pioneer.
... and technically there's also the NEC PCE-LD1 but it's a Pioneer CLD-A100 clone.
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Thanks list