Very core and clean collection, I like it.

Hi,

acuozzo: Can i hope using only one turntable to see the whole of your film ?

Rgds,

That picture is a little old. I mostly watch with my Pioneer LD-S2.

Yup, this thread should be locked.

Hi,

For the digital lovers.
Read the service manual give these data:
1152*288*8 ...................................................................
1024*324*8 ...................................................................

Good night!

Rgds,

Good evening / Morning Guys,

Reading anonyme-x22 intro and indepth analysis, His viewpoint based on his findings, one can only admire his enthusiasm, his passion and appreciate of where he is coming from.

Acuozzo's equally impressive replies and by all accounts his collection, is also impressive, I can sincerely appreciate one and both of your frustrations, however somewhere in the middle is a common ground and that is both of your appreciation of the Laserdisc Format.

The language barrier was evident but one only mentions this as an observation and not to criticize here.

In conclusion I would like to commend you both for your efforts here, for you have no doubt reached out to those who are reading and not posting....... I find it refreshing that you have both thrashed out on the many technical details, and you have both brought out something quite unique to this forum............... Just look at the Views of this post!

If they reinvented the LD format then I know as well as a number of other members here, that we would be united with excitement at the prospect...........

My personal drive is to have ownership of an HLD X0 as a mark of my eternal hope....... I have enough LD players in my collection and have fought hard to own these........

What I am trying to say here is that we would have loved this format you go to the next level, and Pioneer were ready for such a step, it's such a damn shame that market forces chose to go for the smaller disc's, and so reduce the tangible quality that we all hold dear in our hands...............

I used to work up to 120hrs per week for the eternal hope of ownership.

The quirks and oddities of this format are the driving force of our enthusiasm for all things LD and, may that continue for many years to come.

I commend you both and wish you well, lets be fair to one and all, the activity on this forum of late has been a little quiet, and I genuinely hope & believe that you have reignited the flame of enthusiasm here.

In closing I would like to mention a handsome thank you for both of your contributions.

Kindest Regards to you Both and please shake hands in warmth on a united front.

Deepest respects and peace to, and between both of you.

P.S. Thank you both for being members here.......

I love you, Benmbe.

Topic locked

It's getting a little out of hand.

I respect enthusiasm but the LD has and will keep technical limitations in bandwidth, encoding, manufacturing flaws and replay randomness that makes it a great technology of the 70-90's that has commercially survived for 25 years and still allow us to play discs manufactured almost 40 years ago with no DRM, no FBI warning, with contents that are otherwise sometimes hard to find (if we don't consider VHS) or won't be released again due to lack of profitability.

The production machines were retooled or scrapped years ago, unlike vinyl who kept enjoying some after-life commercial life and is eventually kicking new rounds again for a new generation of collectors.

If the revival of the TECHNICS 1200 is a good benchmark, a $500+ turntable is coming back as a $4,000 deck where there is strong international demand for it.
Imagine a LD Player for which technology/analog parts are vastly more complicated going back for production? It would be several times more expensive.

Now, the engineers who developed and maintained LaserDisc technology (either Pioneer or Philipps or SONY) are all retired for a long time and the new generation doesn't know how to troubleshot/fix pure analog designs with parts that are not available anymore.

I think it's time to let the LD revival hopes fades in nostalgia while we collect the discs we cherish and gather a few spare players in case our main one start failing us.

But there's nothing wrong studying old analog formats, patents, encoding, etc. It's quite fun actually to see how technology back then solved problems in the analog world!

Julien