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rojan
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Post subject: Re: Alignment of LD-V8000 Posted: 18 Jan 2020, 23:33 |
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Thank you both.
My LD-V8000 isn’t bad, it just skips around at certain points on discs with problems. Cleaning with Novus and buffing the discs improves this, I’d just like to get a similar marginal improvement from the hardware side, if possible.
DiscoVision titles benefit from the red lasers of that era, but those players have a much lower picture quality. The MUSE players brought back the red laser, but are still quite expensive.
My LD-V8000 is for my archiving projects. I also have a CLD-79 in the living room for direct viewing and a working LD-V4400 in storage (the V8’s predecessor) and a mostly not-working Japanese CLD-919 (akin to a CLD-95) also in storage.
I continue to lust for a CLD-97 and an LD-S2, so those may join the party at some point.
My point is, I have a number of players that could benefit from me getting on top of the maintenance angle, short of anything with a soldering iron.
Also, the V8 is a quality floor that I don’t want to go below for my archiving, so patching my digital versions with caps from, say a Sylvania VP7200GY would be taking a hit.
No?
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cplusplus
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Post subject: Re: Alignment of LD-V8000 Posted: 19 Jan 2020, 21:37 |
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The red laser found in the HLD players is different from the HeNE lasers found in pre-infrared models. The LD-660 I have looks a lot better than I thought it would. Hardware aside, early discs in general will not look as good as later discs even on a LD-S2. I'd love to have a LD-V4400 or even a LD-V8000 if I could find one locally for a reasonable price. With your LD-V4400 at least you should be able to follow an amazing alignment guide (thank you Simon) at https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=2896But again, in regards to maintenance. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Wait until you start experiencing crosstalk, track jumping, audio issues on discs you know are good.
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