Hello everyone new guy here

I just bought the player listed above for just under $17. from the bay and it should be here soon.It was listed that the tray won't open and some minor damage but hopefully it's an easy fixer upper.Is this a good player worth keeping or just fix it and sell?.I also found listings for two movies for $8.00 and picked up Judge Dredd and The Fifth Element(Pioneer discs)as I need a disc to test the player with.I use to own a LDP back in the mid 90's,it was a silver pioneer and pretty basic I don't remember the model.It was hooked up to a 19" Sony and the pq looked good but now I'll be hooking up this 3030 to a Sony 46" lcd and I can compare T.F.E on dvd to the laserdisc version.We'll see maybe I'll start collecting laserdisc's as I do still buy vinyl and people say laserdisc looks better then dvd.

good to hear from you.

i don't know anything about that player, but it might or might not be an easy fix.
there may not be too much value but any player working is worth it if you ask me!

so when you get it if htere are problems you can post pictures and someone should be able to tell you
what to fix on it.

The 3030 is an older single sided player with a softer picture. You would probably have to remove the tray, clean, and re-lubricate the loading assembly. Not worth it in my opinion.

I've got a Pioneer cld-3030 and I like it even though an older player. It has the digital field memory, and mine will play through some of my disc defects perfectly (and my Discovision discs) better then my newer cld-53 does. So I would never get rid of mine, but that's just my opinion.

I have owned my 3030 since 2006 and it has the ac3-3 out added, a solid single sided player. I even traded it off once and he traded back to me to try another player. I have repaired 1 3030 as the laser optics slider rail broke off, which is common with these and other models if shipped hard. I hope that not the case with yours, as the part is NLA, it was one of Pioneers best non Elite single sided models with a picture quality as a 3070, just a tad softer picture.

Please keep us up to date on your 3030 when you get it!!

Duane

that's what i want to hear!!

O.K. the picture is soft, if you want a better picture then get ready to spend 750+

let's get with it people, all players are not bad, and it all depends on what you are going to do with it.

you will get better results from better players but for some is it worth the risk

did i just do that

all that really matters in the end is:
1- are you "Watchting" LDs
2- are you "Enjoying" LDs

and when i say any player working is worth it, you have to rememeber, not everybody is making
800K+ a year and just wants to enjoy it, also if anybody forgot they don't make discs or players anymore
so enjoy like a good wine once you gulp it's gone and that should make you happy

Ahhhh, Rein-o is the voice of reason. I'm changing WWRD to WWRS (say)
It's a dead format, accept that and enjoy the way it works instead of picking it apart. I for one fall into the enjoy watching LDs category. I don't pick out the flaws, I just like spinning the big disc and watching the movie
If you can make the 3030 work it's a good starting point

thanks to LDservice and grasshopper

close subject is my 1960s record player.
i know that my record player is not as good as the ones they offer for 15 thousand
but i can hear the records, it's value is around 60 bucks and i paid 20.
the main thing is that it's not about value, it's about a working nice looking nice sounding record player.

sure you can spend money to listen to your 2 dollar goodwill records but will that 15G make it sound any better?

just like the LDs, when i buy 2 dollar discs it makes me just as happy playing it in my 503, r7g or if i took
it from my father the 3070. i'm happy when i watch movies, which i should be doing now rather than typing

Is the 3030 the awesome looking player that has a jog dial and other buttons in a slide out drawer on the front panel? That's such a cool idea and one Pioneer should have kept in the line, especially Elite models.

I was just emailing with LDService yesterday about how I now collect electronics that were far outside of my $$$ reach as a teenager in the 80's. Even though my family owned a video rental store from 1980 until 1988 there were things like Shure surround decoders that my parents wouldn't buy for me - and in the 90's very expensive LaserDisc players like the EAD TheaterVision or Runco LJR were out of my reach - and I can get them now for trades or prices that I can afford on my Social Security Disability income - I can 'play' now without expending huge sums of money - although my partner says it makes our house look like the electronics dept in a Goodwill store! (his HO Scale model trains are all over the place too, so he cant complain!) The one thing I dearly want and know I'll never find, at least not in good working condition, is one of the Mitsubishi 50-inch big screens that were a one piece front projection unit with a pull out mirror and had doors that covered the screen when not in use - they looked like a beautiful hutch when closed up. Mitsubishi made that model until 1988 and even added S-Video inputs on their last model before they switched to rear projection completely. Those were the best NTSC big screens ever made - they even had full bandwidth color demodulators and FM stereo tuners built in for FM simulcast stereo that some cable companies utilized.

You're thinking of the 3080. It would have been more "cool" if they had used a better latch to hold the drawer locked into the player. Cheap latch and no fun to replace. It's one of those "lets install this latch part and then build the player around it"

Oh yea, the remote Latch, that's one part I hate messing with , I had one where the guy super glued the remote drawer shut, now that rat tled Grasshopper!!!

i agree with disclord, you can get some great stuff now for cheap.
and there are lots of good deals out there.

i saw a pioneer projection TV that would shoot onto metal, but the front part/projector was missing

Damn, that 3080 is a piece of work! Still like it though. It's the only player I can access the service menu on.

I would have recommended a 3070 and then a 3080 for older players that I would consider better than the 3030. Get a little sharper picture and dual sided playback for not much more. Just need to verify the 3070 lubrication is not tacky, it has trouble pushing down the front door if it is tacky. With the 3080 as Duncan said the latch always seems to break for the controller drawer. BTW the controls are on the front of the 3070. Got to get my players ready for sale as I have both of these in mint condition.

The 3080 is the best non Elite player (dual sided) for low noise analog film look, very close to the 95/97 players. The 3080 was regarded as one of the best CD transports also and the D/A in the audio section was top notch.

Im sure Kurtis will agree?

3070 is a great player, it was my first introduction to LD, if you can get one cheap and working
and the grease not sticky then do it.

but getting back to it, did you get the 3030 and what is wrong with it?

Still waiting for it,I bought and payed for it a week ago and today it's now been marked as shipped and tracking number

Doesn't look like it will arrive before the Holidays

Hopefully you will get it up and running maybe it will work also perfect also, had that happen on a few buys.

If you need any questions after you open it up, just ask on here!!

it's the holidays, don't be too upset.
they had to get boxes etc. and make time to get it shipped out.
the line at my local post office on a normal day is about 3-4 people, the past 2 weeks it's been 35
each time i went.