Picked up a mint condition, one-owner Sony MDP-600 in a lot local to me. These things get a lot of hate online but I don’t see why! The picture is nice and sharp with no smear, to my eyes at least!
THAT BEING SAID, it has a weird problem sometimes where the video on Side A plays all glitchy and terrible (audio is fine). When I flip to side B (on the unit, not physically), Side B ALWAYS plays perfect. Then I have the unit flip back to Side A and that plays perfect? This doesn’t happen EVERY time when you start with Side A and I’m not entirely sure why it would only happen sometimes and then not happen on Side B at all. If you start the disc on side B, it tracks fine as well. The tray is a bit loud and the unit hadn’t been used for years — maybe the gears just need some grease?
Here are some photos of it misbehaving on Side A (before flipping to Side B and back to A):
https://imgur.com/a/UF4dkArMy Pioneer LD-V4400 has more vibrant colors but I’d say this Sony has a sharper image and less smear; looks like you’re watching a DVD. I’ve read that some of these were bad and some were good and this one looks really impressive! That being said, I probably won’t hold on to this machine just because I don’t have the space (if anyone is interested — I’m in Massachusetts)
Any tips on maintenance to make this go away? Great player otherwise!