POLL: How Many Forum Members Have a Working Laserdisc Player?

[SeanStevens]

I found a laserdisc film on my last holiday - it was so impressive looking I had to have it, although I have no machine to play it on




This brings me to the question:

How Many Forum Members Have a Working Laserdisc Player?

I've set this post up as a Poll, but I think a moderator may need to make it work.

I suggest


0 Laserdisc players - and never owned one
0 Laserdisc players - used to own one (or had access to one)
1 Laserdisc player
Several Laserdisc players


SEAN

[Radio_Dave]

I have a working Pioneer CLD-1850, single sided player and a Pioneer CLD-D925, double sided player. The CLD-D925 is permanently set up in our living room an gets used every couple of months or so.

If your thinking about buying a laserdisc player make sure you do your homework first as there's variations in the laserdisc format and not all players are compatible with all of them!

David

[SeanStevens]

Wow

I didn't realise it would be that complcated.

The film I have should state somewhere on the sleeve what format it is?

SEAN

[Jac]

I have a Philips LDP600WS, CDV475 and VP380.
The LDP600 is in use occasionally, the other two have not been powered up for several years now.

Jac

[threeseven]

Pioneer CLD-925 here too. Inherited from my father who was always into the latest thing video and TV wise. Have around 50 discs too. I love to use it now and then, I find the operation strangely fascinating, especially when it changes sides!

[Nickthedentist]

I'm too young to have owned one from new, and they were too scarce secondhand for me to have got one from a boot sale or similar when I was collecting all manner of electronic stuff (in the 1990s), whereas VHS videos were ten a penny (well, a fiver or so, usually!). Their lack of recording ability was also a huge disadvantage for me.

N.

[Cobaltblue]

I have 2 Philips VLP700's and 1 remote.

One was working well when last used about 5 years ago so I don't know if that's still the case, the other works ok but occasionally jumps seems to be worse when its cold last used a year ago.

I also have a couple of Toshiba CED players currently neither work requiring the belts replaced.

Plenty of discs for both formats as well.

Cheers

Mike T

[bobbyball]

Right, here goes!!

Might not have remembered them all, or the model numbers but:

I have a couple of Pioneer CLD-D925's (one working one not), DVL-909, CLD-1850, 1450, 2850, D-525 (I think, may be a 560), CLD-1400, 1750 (I think) and probably more. Sketchy as some are not immediately "get-at" able;

Sony MDP650 x2, MDP850D, Philips CDV475 x "several" (most needing that ridiculous loading belt that comes off the pulleys).

Several "hundered" laser discs...

[mark pirate]

I have a working Pioneer player (well it was when last used around 8 years ago)
complete with remote control.
I will dig it out and try it, and post some photos and find the model number.

Mark

[andrewn]

I have a Philips VP380. It will play NTSC discs and convert them to PAL. The thing I find odd about the player is it has a wired remote control with an IR led next to where the wire comes out. I found that it will also play audio CDs as well, I don't know if all laserdisc players do that.

[Jac]

Originally Posted by andrewn

I have a Philips VP380. It will play NTSC discs and convert them to PAL. The thing I find odd about the player is it has a wired remote control with an IR led next to where the wire comes out. I found that it will also play audio CDs as well, I don't know if all laserdisc players do that.

I changed that to an IR remote control that I was lucky to have. I used an IR-receiver from a CDV475, because none was built in.
Might be an early production type or prototype.
I do not have the wired remote.
Jac

[threeseven]

To my surprise I found a Pioneer CLD-1450 this morning that I just didn't know I had! I must have had it from my father as I've never bought a Laser Disc player myself but I'm shocked that all memory of it had disappeared! I'll have to find out if it still works now then!

[Nickthedentist]

Maybe need a "Never owned one but one's just appeared in my house by magic" option?!

[winston_1]

Have a Sony MDP850D still connected to a spare scart socket on the main TV. Last time I used it a few months ago the picture was jumping, maybe worn belts if it has belts that is.
Also have a Pioneer CLD1850K NTSC only without remote in the loft, that I "found" on top of the bins at the local mini recycling centre. It worked last time I offered it a disk.

[ntscuser]

I've only ever owned a Pioneer CLD-1450 myself, but have used just about every NTSC-capable UK-spec LD player made since then for public demonstrations.

Incidentally the Pioneer CLD-1450 was the last LD player to have a built-in UHF modulator. The modulated output was 4.43 MHz PAL-colour regardless of whether a PAL or NTSC disc was being played.

[Courtney Louise]

I have a Pioneer 2950 with about 250 disks and the first Philips one 700? in mint cosmetic condition but doesnt read the discs anymore :-(

[ben]

I have a Pioneer CLD-700S. Haven't used it for at least 3 years now. I only have a handful of discs, a couple of cheesy hollywood 80s blockbusters picked up for test purposes and some Talking Heads and Level 42 music ones which are the only ones I've actually watched on it! Most the discs I come across in fleamarkets are the aforementioned hollywood cheese or old nature films, neither of which reeally interest me. Maybe I should start picking up a few better ones!
You find these players a lot here in Spain, almost always the same few Pioneer models like mine. Last year the local cash converters had about three.

[alynG1TBL]

The local education authority I worked for, till I retired, had Philips Laserdisc machines coupled to BBC micros for the Doomsday project. They worked very well, but the discs, in later years, (after being withdrawn from use) started to go opaque;- possibly due to damp storage.

[Jac]

I think it was the VP-415 that was especially equipped for the Doomsday project.
I only have the discs. Well, one disc really with 2 sides (north and south).
No software, so for me it is a collection of pictures without any accompanying explanation.
Still nice to have the disc though. Looks in good shape, but I have not tried it for over 15 years...

Jac

[ntscuser]

Originally Posted by alynG1TBL

The local education authority I worked for, till I retired, had Philips Laserdisc machines coupled to BBC micros for the Doomsday project. They worked very well, but the discs, in later years, (after being withdrawn from use) started to go opaque;- possibly due to damp storage.

My understanding is that Philips abandoned the consumer market for laser discs in the 1970s in order to concentrate on making interactive media for industry and education. They left Pioneer to develop the consumer version which didn't then reappear until the early 1980s.