Howdy,
Based in Europe, and love collecting films from the time of great action flicks and anime of the late 80s & 90s. I'm taking it upon myself to find and fix busted LD players, with my 515D currently on the chopping block. Although I would like to stay with Sony products, since I love the design (damned be their functionality), I wouldn't mind picking up a Pioneer player for the increased image playback quality, as I love to use my LDs with great regularity. Currently working on getting my collection up to date online here.

I have a handful of LDs that will be my McGuffin to find and collect, most importantly: Flying Luna Clipper, The (1987) [88LS 85004] (seriously if you have it, I will pay an exorbitant amount for it).

I look forward to staying in the past with these great, yet extremely impractical machines.
Regards,
rally_v ✌

Equipment:
MDP-533D Functional, and used regularly
MDP-515D non functional, has the spins n dies issue.

Welcome to the LDDB Forum!

I wish you success with your repair and collecting activities.

It's been on my search list for for 25 years now.

Closest thing I know to a megademo on LD would be: Stakker: Eurotechno [PILP-1009] from the Videola series.

Julien

If you want to save your money, tears and sanity, don't.

Welcome to the forum rally_v!

Cheers!

Agreed. Sony is a company that has many technical strengths and few weaknesses…but unfortunately LD was one of them. Bad picture and unreliable both. It’s honestly kind of weird considering how during the same period they made amazing VCRs, TVs, cameras, CD players and portables. Although a lot of what they made was hyper unreliable there was typically something that made you want the thing anyway but with LD they didn’t even have that. Of course the 1cm thick MD player with integrated battery didn’t last three years…but you don’t get that kind of thing with their LD players.

Too proud to rebadge a Pioneer and lacking in the mastery to build a superior one they were trapped, I guess.

Even so it’s less mysterious than the question of why the PSP wasn’t designed to run on Minidiscs. That still baffles me. Sony is (was, really) just too huge to not fall over themselves constantly.

Who used to have one for sale here????
Was it giannis???? He wanted a crazy amount but since you are willing to pay then if he has it he may sell it to you.
It is a rare disc, but I'm cool watching the youtube video of it.

Search up the old topics, I know he offered it to me but it was a long time ago and I was and still am trying to focus on anime.

I know there were three companies actually building their own players instead of just rebranding others, I know Pioneer obviously and Sony was another but I can never remember who the third one was. Panasonic? Philips?