Just curious about the player seem at the 1:00 mark, with the flip out jog wheel and controls, I haven't seen that feature on any of the players I own/have seen in person. They also mention at the 4:00 mark that a different player they have can play "8inch and 12inch laserdiscs" were there different sized laserdiscs? As far as I know they were all a standard size.

I believe it is a CLD-3080.

Laserdiscs came in 5", 8" and 12" sizes, 12" being the most common.

Julien

Yup 3080 seems to be it.

Can you explain a bit more on the different laserdisc sizes? I've only ever seen the 12" ones, were the other sizes used for Karaoke discs or something? I'm finding very little information on the other two sizes you mentioned.

I know I need to finish the "HELP > Disc Size" section one day...

https://www.lddb.com/help_size.php

You have to google slightly different names:

8" => LD Single or LDS
5" => VSD or CD Video

They are the yellow discs on this pic:





Julien

Thanks! I saw the techmoan video when it came out, guess I didn't connect the dots there

the near-bottom of this model range, the CLD-1080, was my very first LD player.

paid $50 for it back around 2005, and it lasted me like a month, before it slipped out of my grip,
heading down the terribly steep staircase at my grandma's place.

it smashed face first into the brass hand-railing, and that was all she wrote...

Dang, that’s terrible.

But knowing the build quality of these things I have to ask...how much was it to replace the brass hand railing?

The way “CD Video” was handled in Europe was extremely confusing, even for Laserdisc fans.

In the US and Japan it was pretty simple. Some discs have digital sound and if they do that’s great.

Some discs are 8”, usually these are music videos or promos.

At one point around the turn of the 90s a lot of 5” CDVs were made, half CD half LD. These were actually kinda cool but in retrospect probably never should have been invented and half of them are rotted anyway.

That’s the whole thing. Unfortunately we got this dumb “CD Video” logo out of it which can be found on any size of disc which confuses people and it’s all Phillips fault. It’s best you ignore the term completely except for the 5” ones.