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testafoxxa
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Post subject: Re: Sony LaserMax MDP-1100, is it any good? Posted: 14 Oct 2021, 12:57 |
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cplusplus wrote: It looks pretty cool, but I'd only go for it if it is a really good price. More importantly, any working local player will beat any shipped player. I'll be honest, I don't think I'll ever find a local player; I Don't have any great thrift stores near me, just 2 goodwills; a Value Village and a community thrift shop in the next town over that probably sells only clothes. I also snooped around FB Marketplace, and all the ones I see listed are "Ships to you" or are like a very long drive away (This is what I get for living where I live I guess lol)
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signofzeta
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Post subject: Re: Sony LaserMax MDP-1100, is it any good? Posted: 14 Oct 2021, 13:55 |
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Joined: 14 Jan 2010, 09:44 Posts: 5970 Location: Ann Arbor Has thanked: 1273 times Been thanked: 1090 times
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No, it’s not a good player but if you have to ship it then just don’t bother with Sony players ever. %99 of them are long gone and broken, also the picture sucks. Buy Pioneers and clones, that way when it breaks during shipping you may actually find spare parts and someone living who has fixed one.
I would advise just not shipping anything. There is a double digit chance it will break in shipping, then you’re back to square one with no money.
Don’t just “shop” on eBay, thinking you can click on a thing and have it running in your house in a week, like it was a SD card or something. That doesn’t work with LD, or rather very very often it goes bad. Look through other noob posts and see how many of them are about broken players. I’m serious, there are more than a couple. Things like insurance and guarantees are worthless to LD fans because they could never find another one or fix the broken one they are stuck with, they will only refund filthy disgusting cash, who needs it when what you want is a player?
Try to locate a real LD person with a spare player and buy from them. They may package it properly and it may survive the trip. Most of the Pawn Stars carnies on eBay will destroy your player once you buy it. They don’t know how to ship things, eBay is absolute meat grinder for LD players. Also, be patient. If you’ve only been looking for a week then you won’t find anything.
Also, I have to mention that maybe you should just give up on LD. It’s super expensive and working players for this never popular format are more rare than ever. You can back away now having not blown thousands on antique junk nobody wants.
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cplusplus
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Post subject: Re: Sony LaserMax MDP-1100, is it any good? Posted: 15 Oct 2021, 00:52 |
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signofzeta wrote: They don’t know how to ship things, eBay is absolute meat grinder for LD players. Also, be patient. So true. Probably over 90% my repairs are shipping related. Even if they arrive "working", they will often have minor damage on the inside that isn't noticeable. The other side is when I spend a ton of time making extremely small adjustments, I very carefully move the player to its resting spot and if someone is picking one up I make sure they know how to properly transport it to minimize the chance of anything drifting. I'm doing all of this while some carrier is slinging a LD player across some facility, throwing it in a truck and dropping it on a doorstep. I feel a lot of people getting their first player ever shipped to them have no reference for what the picture for that player should look like. Only severe crosstalk issues clearly look like herringbone distortion. A very slight amount of crosstalk looks like just an overall noisy picture.
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