The main manuals are rather large for email — 16.3 MB for the "Level 1 & 3" manual, 24.2 MB for the complete manual. I'll try to see about getting them to Julien so you can download them from LDDb.

All added!

http://www.lddb.com/_misc/manuals/LD_Players/Pioneer/LD/LD-V8000/

Julien

Main player is a Pioneer CLD-704

Backup players not currently in use: Pioneer CLD-3070 and CLD-1010

Main machine is a LD-S9 for all the american / japanese stuff and a CLD-2950 for european discs. Also got this old CLD-1500 for playing old/analog PAL stuff and a Theta Data III as backup unit.

Main player - Pioneer DVL-909 with Pioneer RFD-1 for audio

Multiple backup - spares - DVL-909, CLD-702, CLD-605, couple CLD-505, Panasonic LX-H680, Mitsubishi MV-6022, Pioneer CLD-504

My Pioneer CLD-S104 was the first player I picked up for $25. I use it as my main player since all the players after this had some kind of issue with them. This was the only model I have gotten with a remote!

My second player was another Pioneer, CLD-D504. This one had an S-Video jack, it also said "Karaoke" on the front of it. I have the mode number somewhere... but the issue with this one is that audio only played out of one channel. The other port was crackly or very soft.

The third player I got was a Pioneer CLD-D502 that plays both sides. When I got it there was a cheap CD-R stuck to the top, but I was able to free that off of there. Unfortunately it can go from side B to A okay, but struggles to go from A to B. It plays okay, but needs a light tap now and then to get it to work.

I got a Pioneer LD-838D (Made in 1983) for $20, I didn't realize how old the player was, but it was slim and I gave it to my friend to player a few movies on.

I picked up three massive LD-V8000 series players for $60. Unfortunately one does not turn on, the other plays in black & white and wobbly with bad audio, and the last player does not respond to the remote (pressing play) or when the physical button is pushed.

My latest LaserDisc player I picked up a week or so ago is a Pioneer LD-V4400. It says on the back it was made in 1997. This seems to play back fine without an issue! It's another industrial player, so hopefully this will last a while.

I'm not sure which model I have is the "best", as it's hard to look up and compare models. Although I quote like the CLD-S104 since it was my first player and seems to play discs without an issue.

Also Julien (site admin) can you please post (or send me direct link) to the V8000 manuals again? I wonder if they can help me fix my player(s). Or at least the one that does not turn on (I'm thinking it may be a fuse). I can even host them if need be, I have a good amount of space free. Thanks!

Link was outdated. New one works.

Julien

Thank you very much!!

Just a question. The manual for my Pioneer cld-3030 lists the video jack and digital/analog audio jacks as being gold plated. And the sperate set of analog only jacks as regular (not saying gold plated)

None of the jacks on mine are gold plated, but my player was manufactured Aug 1988 on the back sticker. So I wonder if any of them were? Maybe the 1987 made ones? Or did they change their mind after the manual was already printed. Has anyone seen a cld-3030 with gold jacks?

I've got a CLD-D606. Nothing special, but I like the remote since it's not as large as the early-90s models but still has the jog wheel...

cld 1080.. very basic, i know.. im on the prowl for a better one tho..

Main player is Pioneer CLD-D701 (auto-turn), and I still have and use my original entry-level player the Pioneer CLD-990 on my other TV.

Just got into LD collecting.... My only player is a Marantz LV 510.

My new main player is a CLD-98 which I just got from ebay. The CLD-98 is basically the Japanese version of the CLD-97 with multi-voltage capability; it has a really nice champagne/gold finish and is pretty rare. I also have a CLD-D606, an LD-V8000, a LD-V4400, an LD-V6000a, and finally an ancient LD-660 with a gas laser. I would like to add an LD-S2 or, ideally, the battleship HLD-X0 to my collection.

I take it there are two different Japanese versions of the CLD-97, as always thought the CLD-959 was the Japanese version.

Or maybe the CLD-98 was the Hong Kong version?

Has anyone ever used any of the contact cleaners on your LD players connections. I've been looking at the Mobile Fidelity Sonic Connect which is a 2 part process and comes with cleaning cloth and 2 brushes to get and clean inside the composite jack holes. It's not cheapwhich is why I don't have it yet, but if you don't need much should last awhile, and supposed to improve audio and video.

I found a site in Canada that has it, and if I get it (which I probably will lol) I will post details afer trying it.

Yeah, the CLD-98 is a rare beast: it has multi-voltage knobs on the back, but otherwise it is identical to the CLD-959. So you are correct, in that it is not a Japanese model per se. The manual and markings are English, but it is pretty much a CLD-959 physically. I would like to know what market it was aimed at, you are probably right about Hong Kong. It really is a nice piece, well worth the few more bucks it cost over a CLD-97, and mine is in mint condition.

Main player HLD-X9, Two LD-S9's and a CLD-D925 as back up.

My main player is a Pioneer CLD 504, Backup players: Pioneer CLD V 2400, 2600 and 2800. All are in working order.

My first player was a Pioneer CLD S350 ... still plays but the door sticks (needs repaired).

Nothing special: Pioneer Elite Cld-79 X3 (2 are parts donors, original owner of 1 of them)Meridian 519 AC-3. Anybody ever own the Pioneer DVL-H9?