Could've sworn I already made a account here some years back, but it was likely tied in to the company e-mail I had back then and can no longer access, so oh well.
Presently both of my LD players are sitting in storage, non functional.
My first and main unit was a industrial/commercial Pioneer LD player (not sure of the model), that only featured a Play/Pause and Stop command
buttons on the unit. Really had to know you had the time to watch a entire side of a disc when I did watch a LD as a result, as I never had the remote for it. First thing to go on it was the Left channel audio, then it developed lines and static on the screen.
Second unit was given to me by a co-worker who had moved to the area from elsewhere and said he'd been lugging the player around his last four moves, but had sold off his LDs after his first move. Been so long ago now that I can't actually recall what it was or wasn't doing exactly. Once again, no remote, but at least it was a home player model with controls on the front.
Have 14 or 15 LDs in my collection, one I could add to my collection as it wasn't in the database, and seems when I went to add it I clicked quick add, err, well I'm sure I'll figure out how to finish adding data for it eventually. Right after I bought that first player hit up Ebay and bought the "Back to the Future" trilogy (all Letterbox), and Star Wars Episodes IV and VI, for some reason Episode V eluded me at that time. Picked up the rest of the titles locally, but wasn't long, bit over a year, before that highly annoying loss of the Left Channel audio issue started and I just sort of drifted away from the format at that point.
Also have a small collection of HD-DVDs, only consisting of the titles I personally really liked, and five mostly functional HD-DVD players, with remotes. May seem excessive, but one player is the Xbox 360 with the HD-DVD add-on, the "mostly functional" player is my old Toshiba Laptop with HD-DVD playback, the actual HD-DVD-ROM ODD in it failed, but discovered I can still playback HD-DVDs with the laptop using the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on USB drive. One stand-alone player needs a new cooling fan as the bearings in the original were shot and making a terrible racket. The stand-alone players from Toshiba are also excellent for watching DVDs on a HD TV or Monitor as they use Toshiba's patented SHARC hardware upscale system, that I personally think does a excellent job.
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