Hi all-

I got interested in the Pioneer players capable of playing laser discs and also five CDs or CD-Video discs. Tonight, as I tried some searches, I noticed that each of the Pioneer five-disc-capable players (such as the Pioneer CLD-M401) is described in the CD part of its page as a "multi-charger". Charger, as in charge a battery, not changer, as in change from one disc to another.

In the USA, I am used to calling such players (when I had one for CDs in the 1980s) "five-disc changers" or "5 disc changers". Using those terms or just "changer" or "changers" were not successful at all.

So, is this a mis-spelling bug, or is the word "charger" appropriate in non-USA languages or translations?

That would be a mis-translation from French to English

"chargeur" in French means "loader" (as in "loading a disc"), but not the same in English.

Changer definitely sounds better.

Julien