How Many of you Still Have Laserdiscs?

[Lady Ayeka]

Originally Posted by ejguillot

I started with finding 32 LD's at $0.50 each at a thrift shop. Then I got a Pioneer CLD-703 in good condition with remote for $75 locally.

Lady Ayeka, what do you think about the CLD-703/704 and CLD 79/97/99? You seem to favor the late 80's players, but the mid 90's ones have better specs on paper.

any one of those will do a fine job. especially the 79/97/99 series. also, keep an eye out for the LD-S1/S2 and the HLD-X0/X9; those are by and large considered the very last word in LD performance. beware though, the X0/X9 to this day sell for a small fortune, when you can actually find one, that is.
i do indeed prefer the late '80s models; i simply love the look and feel, an unmistakable "1980's japanese ultratech" vibe, nothing else in the world quite like it, IMO. i like it enough to accept the performance penalty. besides, that was LD's heyday, and the top models of that era (the only ones truly worth owning, IMO) didn't perform all THAT bad. regardless, if the late models float your boat, more power to ya. always great to have a new laserphile join the ranks!!

[laminarflow]

I recently picked up 400+ discs for $30. The seller wanted to throw them out, but I saw her ad on Craigslist.
Nine of the discs are steal factory sealed, and have the original retail prices on them.

[Electronic M]

Nice! I've got around 30-100 Laserdiscs and two players (the first I had to fix myself as the seller did a terrible job shipping it). I have a thing for antiquated recording formats and LD is one of my favorites. This is perhaps the best quality of the analog video recording formats so with a good player you should find the picture quality to be superb.

[ChrisW6ATV]

I still have all of my discs going back to the first ones I bought new in 1984 after I got a broken Pioneer player for $50 that just needed a gear replaced. (Well it had a crosstalk problem that was supposedly related to the spindle height adjustment, but I never bought the $75 Pioneer jig to test/fix that and later sold the player.) Other items in the collection include a whole bunch of MCA Discovision early discs I bought in later years, and one each of the first Magnavox and Pioneer players plus a CLD-D704.

[jbivy]

Well my parents bought it new and when they tossed it out, i happilly took it. Its a 1991 zenith ldp510. Still works like a charm, but if the disc isnt perfect, she freezes. But heck, it was fun to show off to my 15 year younger cousin, hed never even seen one.

I wonder when zenith started making only turds and lost all quality in their products? This thing has to weigh in at 15lbs. I cant stand these electronics that are feather weight, i just know they wont last.

[Electronic M]

The turds started when Zenith stopped making everything they sold in Chicago, and started farming (whoring?) out production to other electronics makers who did not really care if what they gave Zenith lived up to that company's standards or not.
the turds became constant when Zenith completely let go of production and the over seas companies started pumping out even lousier crap.

Zenith had a VERY slow death.

[laminarflow]

Just picked up 75 LD's for $10. Have about 800 LD's. Two players, a 909 and a 704, both Pioneer. Dumped my LD700 form 1986, stopped working, it weighed a ton!

[holmesuser01]

I've got a Pioneer CLD-1070 that didnt recognize discs when I got it. It came with 548 feature disc sets.

I cleaned the laser lens. It was in a home with a well-used fireplace for a bunch of years.

I love it. It plays perfectly.

Recently, at a thrift store, I happened to find a brand new looking remote for it for $.50. I've recently aquired a big collection of MGM cartoons on disc, too.

I let the kid change the discs for me. Too lazy to do it myself.

Bruce

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by jbivy

Its a 1991 zenith ldp510...

I wonder when zenith started making only turds and lost all quality in their products?

I doubt that much if any of that player was made "by" Zenith, since there were few actual manufacturers of Laser Disc players even in their peak period (which was around when that one was made). Pioneer was by far the biggest manufacturer, and Sony, Panasonic, and Philips also made players, with Yamaha and maybe a couple of others in the business for a while as well. Radio Shack even had their name on a Laser Disc player in the early 1990s.

[Firebird]

I have a PR8210 that i got in 1985, is still in the box and has not been used for two years. I plan to start using it again soon. First laser player i saw was a Pioneer vp-7820 in a chevrolet showroom in 1979. Magnavox invented the laser player in the 1970s and licensed it to pioneer in 1978, they also made the first home player Model 8000. They were all top loading except the vp-7820 had a spindle that locked the disc in place without the lid. Magnavox along with Sony invented the replacement first as the cd then the dvd. They were much smaller because being digital could hold a lot more data. So the dvd is really a laserdisc. Laserdisc used an fm signal like the old tv standard.

[Ed in Tx]

How Many of you Still Have Laserdiscs?

I do. Over a hundred. How many do you need?