HLD-X9 and about 60 Laser discs, most of which not available anywhere else.

My main player is a CLD-D704 (Sent out for a tune-up and minor repair)
My backup is a DVL-909.
My backup for my backup is a CLD-D504.

I have a Panasonic LX-900 and a Pioneer LD-S2. As blasphemous as it may be, I prefer the LX-900 in most cases.

My main player is a Pioneer CLD-59 Elite player. A good player but not compared to say, a Pioneer HLD-X9

Pioneer Elite DVL-90 is my main player, and i have a Pioneer V2600 (if i remember correctly lol) in the attic in storage

I wonder who bought this player. It's been up on auction for awhile, at quite a price, but someone actually bought it. I'm always cautious when it's only a copied photo, with no photos of the actual item.

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/PIONEER-MODEL-P1 ... 2a1941442a

My main player is a LD-S9 and a CLD-R7G as backup. still hoping to get a X9 from yahoo soon enough =)

My main player is a Pioneer Elite CLD-53. It has at the AC-3 RF upgrade.

I am very happy with it.

My main player is a CLD-D704 which i just recently picked up and am stoked about.
My backup is a CLD-D406
I also have a LD-V8000 which i got for 20$ but no remote, a CLD-D701 which won't flip and a Mitsubishi M-V8000.

Im kind of intimidated to try and fix the 701 but if anyone has any suggestions i'd love to hear them. I bought it for 20$ at a garage sale so I wouldn't be too disappointed if i furthered the damage. The real score was getting a CU-CLD121 remote with it. The problem is sometimes the tray won't open up when i press the eject button the first time but will on the second. And it flipped to side B the first couple of movies i played but now it won't flip at all.

My main player is a Pioneer CLD-V2400

My main player was a CLD-604, but recently I got a very good condition LD-W1 and I've fallen in love. Its going to Bayview to be AC-3/SPIDF/TOSLINK modded and it will be my new main player.

Seriously, I used to laugh at this thing when I only saw it in pictures, but after using it for a while I really like it a lot.

Certainly makes watching 2 disc movies a simple affair.

I imagine with a good comb filter the picture is decent?

I'm not really a good judge of this, honestly. I have a 604, a 503, I once owned an S201, I have several old industrial models. I would say that the picture with the LD-W1 is at least as good as these others, probably better. I've never actually seen a 704 or later Elite model in action on a display I was familiar with so I don't have much reference. My biggest complaint with LD in general is the red noise/saturation (never understood this, is there a FAQ or something?) and this player seems to do a little better at that than my 604. My display is a XBR960 so the comb filter is very fancy.

For it's time this player was ridiculously advanced. It has digital freeze/trick play. In 1988! The remote has the same shuttle wheel on it as my 604 does. It does digital sound.

The flipper mechanism is rather amazing. Its extremely slow though. I can actually get up and change discs faster myself than this unit can since its basically doing the same thing. The disc slides way frontward in one direction, the entire guts of the player (motor, laser, everything)
rotate, and then the disc goes in. Instead of actually flipping the disc, its effectively ejecting the disc interally, flipping the player, and putting the disc back in. (the unit is rather deep, obviously). The same trick allows it to change discs since the internal tray can movie up and down on the Z axis. While this is really slow, its also, IMO, a better system reliability-wise. The laser can be firmly attached instead of riding along a 16" track like a Gamma Turn unit. Also, the motor only spins in one direction which means it doesn't have to do so much negative torque business as the Gamma Turn models which have to go from full speed in one direction to full speed in the opposite direction as fast as possible.

It doesn't play CDs, and therefore CDVs but...I only own one of these...

It has an RF modulator, if you need one of those (I hope not).

The chassis is very robust. The side changing is quite loud, but once its playing the disc is virtually silent. The laser moving actually makes more noise than the disc vibration.

Someone here said that this player was basically an Elite model before the Elite line was actually realized. I can see this now that I have one. I used to look at pictures of the LD-W1 and think it was just another example of bubble era Japanese hubris, like $1000 game systems, ghetto blasters with turntables, and Discmans sized for CD3s, but honestly I really think this is a good design. The Wiki says this model actually saw a few quite revisions during the years it was in production. Since mine is a July 1988 model, I don't think I have any of those. I don't miss them though.

Unfortunately every time I get a player set up at home someone buys it
So I went for a long time with no player. Now it's an LD-S9 (until IT sells)

that's how i am with guitars

I used to stack up my mcintosh mld and pio cld97 for double disc sets. Since they are identical players the pic was consistent. I also have 2 lexicon rf demodulators for ac3. I moved the cld97 to bedroom i watch a lot of tv episodes in there lately. Later down the road i will pick up another mcintosh for main system for double discs. The switch is quicker than side change this way:)
Surely takes up a lot of space. I ordered a second av cabinet for behind my cauch for legacy sources. Im hoping to get a pal player too.

I have Pioneer CLD-1750, can't afford better one at the moment but it could be much worse.

Picked up a pioneer dvl-919 recently. Added to mcintosh mld7020, pioneer cld-97 with rf out, panasonic 1000u. I will sell 919 and panasonic after I experiment with them a little.

it says there is a 16x9 button on it.
what does it do? do you have any squeezed discs to try?

How badly does your Panny 1000 crosstalk on CLV discs? That player was such a hunk of junk, with a grainy image, noisy chroma and truly terrible CLV tracking performance. And it doesn't read the Table Of Contents on LaserDisc's encoded with it, so no total or remaining time, etc on CAV titles.