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Mike,
In reading your opinions and input on LD's over the last many weeks I
have made some observations. Please don't take it offesivly, cuz it
is not intended to be offesive or anything other than my observation.
I really think you need to get a more modern player, a digital audio
player, a Pioneer 704 would be a wonderful unit for you, you could get
the DTS sound out of your DTS Disks (if you have any) and it has an
AC-3 output for DD 5.1 sound. There is no comparrison on the digital
audio to old analog CX, the digital will sound SO MUCH better.
Picture quality will improve drastically also, I have a 704 myself,
(would love to have an X9, but money is prohibiting that) anyways, I
watched an older laser disc the other day, an analogCX Jackie Chan
movie called "The Protector", its an old 1985 LD, and picture quality
wise it looked pretty bad comparred to my mid 90's LD's, mind you it
was good for the day or compared to VHS.
I can not see any visible difference with my 704 on a CLV or a CAV
disc, if just watching a movie, but the difference is huge in still or
slow motion. Again, you are comparing a 1983 CAV LD on a very old
player.
Comparisons as someone mentioned in a different thread should be made
with the same title.
Japanese disc's are considered to be of WAY higher quality that US
disc's. I see a huge difference. I have the Babylon 5 LD of the
pilot episode of both the US and the Japanese version. The Jap is an
older 1993 release and the US is a 1998 or 99, slightly different
versions of the content, but the Jap LD is extremely clear and the
surround audio is awsome.
I honeslty think you would be surprised in how nice your laser disc
would look and sound if you got a, I wont say better, but different
player.
I understand your enthusiasm about Laser Disc's, I have been into them
for many years and still to this day enjoy watching them and even
adding certain movies to my LD collection. But I wouldn't enjoy them
half as much if I still used my 1989 REALISTIC analog only player.
I spent alot of money on my 704 back in 1995 (yes I bought it brand
new), but I never regreted it a bit.
Ok, I am done now lol,
Feel free to respond back here, or email me privately.
Regards,
Ed
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:12:21 -0500, "half_eaten"
<half_eaten@nospam.yahoo.com> wrote:
>Speaking on CAV, I finally got my first CAV disk ever. It's a little 8"
>Phil Collins music video disc from 1983. Got it for $1.00. It doesn't look
>any better than CLV at all, or maybe it's cause its from 1983 heh.
>
>-Mike
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