Hi! So i've been working on a cld-95 for a friend of mine and have got it running again, but it seems to have ghosting/smearing issues, and
wonder if anyone know what causes this, check picture.

Brightness is too high, and this is a sort of normal issue with LDs
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[quote="rein-o"]Brightness is too high, and this is a sort of normal issue with LDs

Only seems too bright because of the ISO on my mobile camera =) Feeding the tv my x9 with the same settings gives me a flawless image though, so i guess the 95 just
isn't that good. thanks anyway =)

Well the X9 is supposed to be free of the CLV smear issue so maybe you are not used to what a "normal" Pioneer gives off as far as smearing goes. Try the 95 with a CAV disc and see if the issue is gone, if so its just "normal" CLV smear....

It'd be interesting to know what causes this issue, I also get some light smear which seems to only happen in NTSC discs on my 2950 - the X9 obviously has some circuitry that fixes it

X9 has a red laser, so the RF pickup properties are a bit different. (and the X9's dropout detection wasn't adjusted for them...)

Usually smear is caused by the analog components (at/after the RF demodulation), some judicious recapping/circuit bypassing (like replacing the video out circuits with a lower noise op amp) would probably help.

Maybe splitting hairs, but the photo looks like ringing/ghosting to me, not smear.

Yes, it looks a lot like ghosting and not smeaer

i did, stil ghosting on plain text, not as easy to detect with moving images