I swear by the DVL-919E. Not only does it play NTSC and PAL, but it will play all PAL discs - even those with analog audio from the 80s. Most of the later era PAL players cannot playback the old analog titles.

Yes in that respect it offers good backward compatibility for someone who has both old and new LDs, not to mention 5", 8" and 12" discs. The same is true of the CLD-925 of course - the only thing missing being DVD playback in the 925. Although I think the DVL-909 or 919 look much better than the 925 and are better build quality I personally prefer the 925 for day to day use. The jog & shuttle is really hard to survive without if you collect music titles and the remote is more traditional style rather than trying to be jack of all trades and master of none as shipped with the DVL machines. I have eight 925 and five DVL (909 or 919) machines in my fleet so like them both!

The champagne gold coloured European or Japanese DVL models actually don't look out of place even beside an HLD-X9, although you appreciate the difference when you get up close or go to lift the HLD-X9 and realise you immediately want to set it down.

I totally agree with what you said about the remotes on the DVL-919E. However, the remote on the Japanese DVL-919 does have the shuttle & jog control. I haven't tried it on the 919E. Humm....

I've read somewhere that the Japanese remote works fine for the US DVL 919, would be interesting to know if it did work for the 919E too.

Thanks Substance for the offer. Two of them we're transferred by another, which are old analog compilations (Videotheque & Videohits). The other is Rita Mitsouko, which has a digital track. I would like to record all three again in 8 bit PAL lossless, along with the audio tracks with a good ADC or in the case of the digital track, as is as closely as possible thru the digital coaxial bypass on my ADC. I have the all the equipment necessary other than a PAL player. If I could only loan one for the transfer. LOL
Elvis

I live in Bucureşti (Bucahrest), Capital of Romania. Unlike like other Eastern-Europeanen countries, Romania had P.A.L. from the begining, not SECAM (former Yugoslavia also used P.A.L. from the begining) - the reason was political: we wanted to show political independence from U.S.S.R.
So, these are my disc: http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/34629/LVG ... %281981%29
http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/35590/903 ... %281990%29
http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/34562/080 ... %281972%29
And "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (I'll have to submit the info)
Hope for more!

I have 111 PaL titles in my collection. I find they look a little better sometimes on my set up even tho they are time compressed alot of the time. My collection do far can be found at http://goo.gl/SnBL9B

I live in the UK and have the Pioneer CLD 2950. A great player with film like picture quality and when run through a filter I have it gives off Blu ray 1080p with fantastic results within the picture.

I own 11 PAL discs in my collection. I am located in Argentina (Not a typical LD coutry... hahaha.. but I could say NTSC)

I have 1 PAL player only; but it's really a LowFi one; doesn't play CAV, doesn't play Analogue tracks...
I just keep looking for another one; but I can't import this kind of things due Argentinian policy..

How is the Argetinian policy?

Oh, my friend.. it's a shame..
I don't want to talk about it ..
It's almost impossible to buy (for example) Laserdisc via this site or ebay or whatever...
Not to mention LD players.
I mean: you can buy it, of course; but you can't "receive" it.

Got me 2 more P.A.L. discs from U.K. The 2nd one is my newest P.A.L. disc
http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/36625/791 ... Video-Show
http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/18728/EE-1183/Toy-Story

I have no PAL discs or players and no plans to get any. The only PAL LDs I can think of I'd ever want would be the CDVs for Doctorin' the Tardis and True Faith, but they only contain videos easily obtained elsewhere and they've probably rotted as well.

If I were into hoarding dozens of varients maybe I'd care, but I mainly collect classics and anime (usually one version, no redundant editions) and since Europe didn't have Criterion or Bandai Visual...PAL is pretty much a wasteland. How many versions of Speed and MIB can a person actually use?

P.A.L. disc have a better image (and I'm not saying this because of Europeanen pride). But you can get music on them.
Ha, some titles where never realesed on P.A.L., but that Elkie Brooks disc was never realesed on N.T.S.C.

The True Faith cdv i've got hasn't rotten yet; though it has lots of chroma noise.
I paid 70€ for it. It can go for more ridiculous prices.
You will find the clip also on the ntsc [POLD-1011] i by the way also got.
That one has also 2 true faith versions. The blue monday cdv i've also got has audio gone totally bad.

I've got 38 Pal discs and 1 Pal+ disc. (12, 8 and 5" together)
Some of them are good Pal ones, like French ones like from Jean Michel Jarre and Mylene Farmer.
Many other Pal ones i would like to get the 'original' NTSC equivalent from.
Some bad Pal ones even don't have any ntsc equivalent. Many of the 5" cdv's the same story .
I've got Pioneer CLD D925 CLD D515 ld players and a Philips CDV 185 CD/CDV-only Pal-only player.

I live in France and have over 50 PAL laserdiscs. I can honestly say that many of the PAL releases look very good indeed. The French 1997 THX versions of Star Wars look amazing! There are many things on PAL discs that were never released in NTSC, especially concerts. There were many European movies that never got an NTSC release. While many German movies only had an NTSC release like "The Tin Drum"(die Blechtrommel) or "Europa Europa" (Hitlerjunge Salomon). PAL country was always unpredictable in the LD era!

I own 30 PAL discs that I have in my collection. I am located in Norway (PAL). Laserdisc was never officially released here, so everything is imported. It did exist stores that imported laserdisc in the 80s and 90s.

What discs I have can be seen in my collection, it is "à jour". Link in my signature.

I had a PAL player with NTSC playback about 5 years ago, but it died two weeks after I got it. The drive motor broke off its plastic mount. Tried to glue it back on, but would break off again right away. Never had a PAL player since then, as pure NTSC players are easier to get. Would like a simple PAL player again to be able to play my PAL discs, but it isn't a priority at the moment.

I would buy PAL discs if they were exclusives.

Well PAL discs are at 25fps which is very close to the original 24fps film speed.

I want to buy external PAL TeleText (VideoText, TeleVideo) decoder with Remote.
Unit like NEC VX-101A or NEC TX-101NZ etc.
Needed is PAL unit with RCA - composite (or S-Video or SCART) in and out.
Can be also universal PAL/SECAM/NTSC external unit from 90ties.


Japanese NTSC units (NEC TX-1500; Fuijtsu-General TX-20/TX21) and US NABTS units (Panasonic TU-1000X) are not capable to decode PAL or WTS format.
Also I can't use special units paired with TV tuner or TV set (using TV remote) like: Sony TXT-100G; Grunding VT1000; JVC VU-V140E/V150E etc.

Thank you beforehand

I Live in Germany and own 123 PAL LD's and 2 NTSC/PAL capable player.

Countries:

Germany: 79
UK: 42
Netherlands: 1
France: 1

Player:

Pioneer CLD-S315
Pioneer CLD-S315 (without AC-3)