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I signed up for an account at totalvideo.org, which turned out to be a
total waste, as I made a lenghty post which strangely does not show up at
all. Hopefully this works... I am bummed because I had explained my
thoughts rather well but now I am stuck trying to remember what I had
thought/typed a couple weeks ago. So....
I purchased a Pioneer CLD-1010 off eBay for $60 + shipping very recently.
I have read before that it runs cheaper usually, but lately it has been
selling around what I paid. I am aware of the player using a "red" laser.
Anyways, I received it, and everything functions properly as far as I can
tell. I notice now well built this machine is, much sturdy than my mid-90s
Pioneer machine (a CLD-D503). During my testing, I noticed some things
which left me wondering if this player needs a "tune up". I played this on
a 32" Sony Triniton as well as a cheap 19" Sylvania set. I tested with a
THX LD of 'The Terminator' as well as a badly defective (inclusion? audio
is staticy and the video is just littered with pink/blue grain to it) copy
of 'Whitesnake Live! Commandos'. I ended up comparing the two in the end,
both by using the composite outs (since it would be unfair to use the
503's S-Video out). I played 'The Terminator' on the 1010 and noticed that
the entire picture has very thin light streaks running (horizontally)
across the screen. Also, I notice that when the IMAGE logo is on the
screen, it looks like it is double imposed, sort of. With my 503, neither
of these problems are there. There is no streaking, and the IMAGE logo
isn't double imposed. What concerns me most is near the end of side 1 on
the movie, when there are really dark scenes such as in the parking
complex, is that the 1010 was displaying crazy amounts of (judging from
picture examples from Leopold's defect list) "crosstalk" in which there
was almost like thick groups of wavy lines running across the screen. This
totally irrated me, and once again I tried it with my 503 and none of that
was there. As far as sharpness, they appeared the same really. Honestly, I
prefer the 503 due to all of this, and I'm really left wondering if the
1010 needs some tweaking. Everything operates fine, the platter switching
functions as it should, but the picture just looks very poor to me. I
tried cleaning the player with a lens cleaning LD disc but nothing has
changed. I noticed the streaking during the video portions of the cleaning
disc also. The only thing I found the 1010 peforming better on was with
the Whitesnake disc. The 1010 seemed to handle the audio on the disc fine
whereas on the 503 it has intermittent static to it.
I signed up for an account at totalvideo.org, which turned out to be a
total waste, as I made a lenghty post which strangely does not show up at
all. Hopefully this works... I am bummed because I had explained my
thoughts rather well but now I am stuck trying to remember what I had
thought/typed a couple weeks ago. So....
I purchased a Pioneer CLD-1010 off eBay for $60 + shipping very recently.
I have read before that it runs cheaper usually, but lately it has been
selling around what I paid. I am aware of the player using a "red" laser.
Anyways, I received it, and everything functions properly as far as I can
tell. I notice now well built this machine is, much sturdy than my mid-90s
Pioneer machine (a CLD-D503). During my testing, I noticed some things
which left me wondering if this player needs a "tune up". I played this on
a 32" Sony Triniton as well as a cheap 19" Sylvania set. I tested with a
THX LD of 'The Terminator' as well as a badly defective (inclusion? audio
is staticy and the video is just littered with pink/blue grain to it) copy
of 'Whitesnake Live! Commandos'. I ended up comparing the two in the end,
both by using the composite outs (since it would be unfair to use the
503's S-Video out). I played 'The Terminator' on the 1010 and noticed that
the entire picture has very thin light streaks running (horizontally)
across the screen. Also, I notice that when the IMAGE logo is on the
screen, it looks like it is double imposed, sort of. With my 503, neither
of these problems are there. There is no streaking, and the IMAGE logo
isn't double imposed. What concerns me most is near the end of side 1 on
the movie, when there are really dark scenes such as in the parking
complex, is that the 1010 was displaying crazy amounts of (judging from
picture examples from Leopold's defect list) "crosstalk" in which there
was almost like thick groups of wavy lines running across the screen. This
totally irrated me, and once again I tried it with my 503 and none of that
was there. As far as sharpness, they appeared the same really. Honestly, I
prefer the 503 due to all of this, and I'm really left wondering if the
1010 needs some tweaking. Everything operates fine, the platter switching
functions as it should, but the picture just looks very poor to me. I
tried cleaning the player with a lens cleaning LD disc but nothing has
changed. I noticed the streaking during the video portions of the cleaning
disc also. The only thing I found the 1010 peforming better on was with
the Whitesnake disc. The 1010 seemed to handle the audio on the disc fine
whereas on the 503 it has intermittent static to it.
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