Just noticed in these pics of yours, do you see that rainbow effect in the stair rails, there also looks to be some on the dog statue face too.
Something may need an adjustment on color or sharpness, you shouldn't see that from a 3080.

Maybe I'm losing it and you do see that when using composite video?

Probably my fault for capturing with s-video on the cld-3080. There's a reason why people claim the cld-99 is the the only good North American Laserdisc player for s-video.

Sort of, you just need to adjust settings to remove that.

Players: Pioneer Elite CLD-99 composite
Capture Device: Hauppauge PVR composite
Movie: Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town Christmas Classics: Rudolph/Santa Is Coming/Frosty/Drummer [LD 27309]

Screens:

*I'm capturing with Elgato from now on.

Movie: The Fifth Element Pioneer Edition

Player: CLD-99

Software: Elgato s-video(cld-99 is one of the few players to have a great s-video)

Info: I sacrificed bitrate for a software I believe captures laserdiscs better color wise. I had a complaint on my previous posts and I agree with other posters. That it looked dull. I must say this Pioneer pressing of The Fifth Element is probably one of the best widescreen laserdiscs in my collection. I am unsure if a laserdisc can look much better in Widescreen. The colors really pop.

Screens:

Please don’t take this as a criticism because it’s absolutely not intended to be, but seriously I would hope you are seeing something much sharper and vibrant than these captures when watching directly on your display of whatever technology? When I played this LD on my setup last week it looked beautiful, really couldn’t have imagined the dvd to look any better overall and believe me when I say I’m hard to please - well ok, now if they had released this in Squeezed format!

Not arguing with you but on my Hp 8470p laptop with Display Hp ProBook 4530's color profile on my hackintosh operating system these screens look close to dvd and on my Dell 32 inch 4k 60hz 1800r curved monitor they also look close to DVD. I don't know how you think this isn't sharp enough or high enough quality. It clearly is destroying VHS and BetaMax format and looks pretty damn close to DVD in these screen captures. If you are seeing bitrate issues on your Monitor which I am not noticing that would be because these captures were from Elgato vhs capture or the non-hd version of Elgato and it captured under 2mbps for this widescreen release. I think around 1825 kb/s.

I tried both the s-video and composite connection my Elgato and I didn't notice much of a difference. I actually thought I was getting richer looking blacks with the s-video but really didn't notice much of a difference. On my 22 inch monitor 225bw these screen captures also look pretty nice. Again, I don't know what you're not seeing and i have no idea if it's your monitor or what not. If you're using an OLED or some type of newer technology other than LCD maybe you're noticing it not looking as sharp but I don't think it looks dull.

If you came to this topic to brag about how much better your Pioneer HLD-X9 is over my CLD-99 then well no duh it's a player that cost more and weighs more. I'm sure your HLD-X9 player also doesn't suffer from any clv smearing of any type. Your player is ranked higher than the CLD-99. Or if you think my CLD-99 picture quality is off a little bit and needs something to repair it like an alignment issue or is it a remote a control issue? I am waiting for a remote that is coming in the mail which is supposedly compatible with my CLD-99 which will let me mess with certain things on the player but I think that's only for the 3d comb filter or is it for other settings as well such as noise reduction etc?

https://notonbluray.com/blog/laserdisc-clv-smear/

https://alt.video.laserdisc.narkive.com/ZsRpMidK/testing-cld-99-vs-dvl-91-vs-japanese-cld-r7g

https://forums.tomsguide.com/threads/pioneer-hld-x9-versus-the-others.248558/

Everywhere I go online people say your HLD-X9 destroys my CLD-99 as it does most players. The only con your player has is the weight. I'd imagine it's a lot heavier than my CLD-99. Also, id imagine your HLD-X9 is producing a sharper and better overall picture. I think what my CLD-99 is doing is pretty good for old technology.

I feel like you came here to brag whether unintentionally or not unless you think there's something off about my CLD-99. It plays everything I put in it so there's no issue there but if you think the CLD-99 should be producing sharper image. What do I need to do to fix that? Will the CU-CLD108 remote I ordered recently be able to fix any settings such as sharpness and other settings or do you think I need to have someone align something properly inside the player?

@jesuslovesgood Can I start by first stating that my post was in absolutely no way intended as an opportunity to brag as you put it, or that I may or may not possess a better player than yourself. It was merely to suggest that what I watched a week or two back looked rather more vibrant and significantly sharper onscreen than the capture shots you recently kindly posted.

Let me just add that the player used for this was not a HLD-X9 only a regular Pioneer CLD-D925 which is a European market PAL/NTSC model that was about as good as it ever got over here, but as far as NTSC playback goes mediocre and not on a par with at least three of the North American players you possess.

It’s a shame that you seem to take my comments wrong, and I and I’m sure others here appreciate the time and effort you put into posting your many capture shots but as the thread actually states “screenshot”in its title it would be really great if you could also do some actual shots of the LD you are viewing directly from the TV display in use, as I think it gives a better representation of what you are actually seeing - at the end of the day this is only my opinion and others may not agree but regardless of that don’t let my comments stop your shots coming

Player: Pioneer Elite CLD-99
Capture Device: Hauppauge PVR composite
Movie: Babes in Toyland 1986

Screens:

Player: Pioneer CLD-99
Movie: Appointment with Fear
Capture Device: Toshiba DVR620 recorder composite

Screens:

I can't recommend Toshiba DVR620 recorder composite for laserdiscs. The bitrate is too low at around 4mbps and I notice the video quality looking like it has bitrate issues at times. I am not sure if this is constant 4mbps or 4mbp variable. Either way it doesn't look great at times. I think the colors are great looking. I just can't recommend that as a capture device. I'd imagine most dvd recorders are probably not great. It was probably a format targeting VHS over Laserdisc since most people didn't own Laserdiscs. I haven't tested it with VHS yet but I think that it would probably would better with VHS.

Player: Pioneer DVL-919
Movie: Major League
Capture Device: Panasonic DMR-EZ48V

Screenshots:

Player: Pioneer Elite CLD-99

Capture Device: Hauppauge PVR composite Analog for Video and Audio. The optical output is only for DTS audio and makes a screeching sound if you don't have 5.1 sound. Also, I'm too lazy to match up the screencaps to capsaholic this time around. I'm just going to take random screen captures.

Movie: Village of the Damned 1995 Remake DTS 43278

Screens:

Player: Pioneer Elite CLD-99

Capture Device: Hauppauge PVR Composite

Movie: Creature 1985 ID5076

Info: https://www.ebay.com/str/hazelfiver Check out his ebay account for more cool laserdiscs.


Screens:

Player: Pioneer CLD-3080

Capture Device: Hauppauge PVR Composite

Movie: Happy Gilmore 42898

Info: https://www.lddb.com/shops/ldstl/ Check out his lddb store for more cool laserdiscs.


Screens:

This page alone takes up 278 Mb of RAM in Chrome.

My only hope is that when/if I ever get a capture card, I can take better screencaps than these.

These look that bad on your monitor? I don't think they look that bad.




I'm using Firefox but I also have 32 gigs of ddr4 ram with my rtx 3070 8gb vram. I don't know if the video card helps out with browser at all though. My computer is pretty solid and also I have the fastest internet Comcast provides in my area but even before that when we were a little bit slower it was still pretty fast at loading pages. Yeah I'd imagine if people have slower internet this could cause issue loading some of these images. However fast internet even the slower cheaper Comcast connection is still fast and I'd have to imagine Verizon or whatever provider you people are using is fairly fast too. Verizon where I live can't compete against comcast speed and price wise. I have Verizon as our phone provider.