The difference between the s9 and the x9 is almost none, but there are some differences that i enjoy, and that is that the x9 does not have the white smear that the s9 have (it's black instead, so not as visible). Also it have less crosstalk issues because of its red laser, which has a more narrow bandwidth. With picture quality it's hard to tell them apart, especially on my pioneer kuro, which cleans up the picture a lot and have a great comb filter.

Yes lizard king, I have always liked your handle. I was lucky enough that Duncan had one in stock. I also just managed to buy a second one off avforums. Now I just have to wait to watch some laserdiscs with the s9.

Yes lizard king, I have always liked your handle. I was lucky enough that Duncan had one in stock. I also just managed to buy a second one off avforums. Now I just have to wait to watch some laserdiscs with the s9.

I do not want to blow the one from avforums up. It is from the u.k but is a stock standard japanese machine. So I think the power is 100 volts? Not sure, I do not want to ruin a good player. All of my other machines are 240 volt or 110 volt. I did not stop to think that there was a 100 volt area.

I am looking at buying a junior caption decoder, would the composite cable go into this and then composite into the hdmi upconvertor. If the caption decoder is in before the hdmi then will the hdmi carry the closed caption signal. I have read some reports that say hdmi will not carry captions, And others that say hdmi can. So I was thinking if I decode the signal before the hdmi upconvertor then the caption signal would already be decoded and would be carried by hdmi.