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Hey, kids... I see that there's other conversations about good 'ol LD players in here too, so I'll give this a shot, and bless Rachael et. al. for their support.
Here up north in cold Canada, I've got a Pioneer DVL-700 that's lasted me quite a while - was my happy DVD -and- LD player for the last several years. I decided that this was going to be a player to last, so I bought an RP-82 to be my DVD player, freeing up the 700 for LD fun.
Damn. If it wasn't then that the player started to exhibit funky problems. 5% of the time, no problems, but the rest of the time it plays with very jerky movement, and the lights for the disc to flip don't light up. It's somewhat pooched, methinks.
It's been in at Pioneer's headquarters for a while now (the sr. tech apparently just had a kid... well, his wife did... mazel tov if he reads this...
- finally figured out from them (pending a full estimate) that this might cost me $1000CDN to fix.
For a secondary player, with my secondary discs, after having just bought a 57", this ain't a good thing.
I'm not in the market for a $3K player that's the be all and end all (see RP-82 - good, solid player, good quality, not silly in terms of cost or feature that I just can't frankly get into given my situation).
So, friends, I'm looking, probably, for a player less than the repair costs of my 700 that does LD only (keep it simple, well, LD and CD, of course) and has an AC3 out.
Thoughts? The CLD-D704 looks like a nice player, but still a bit pricy for what it's going to be used for (once in a while playback of library discs - most stuff is being replaced with DVD, save those lovely criterions and SW discs that just ain't gonna be issued on the smaller disc format.)
Am I simply destined to blow $700 CDN at least on a new/used player, that, for all I know, will pooch upon shipping over the border?
Help.
Here up north in cold Canada, I've got a Pioneer DVL-700 that's lasted me quite a while - was my happy DVD -and- LD player for the last several years. I decided that this was going to be a player to last, so I bought an RP-82 to be my DVD player, freeing up the 700 for LD fun.
Damn. If it wasn't then that the player started to exhibit funky problems. 5% of the time, no problems, but the rest of the time it plays with very jerky movement, and the lights for the disc to flip don't light up. It's somewhat pooched, methinks.
It's been in at Pioneer's headquarters for a while now (the sr. tech apparently just had a kid... well, his wife did... mazel tov if he reads this...
For a secondary player, with my secondary discs, after having just bought a 57", this ain't a good thing.
I'm not in the market for a $3K player that's the be all and end all (see RP-82 - good, solid player, good quality, not silly in terms of cost or feature that I just can't frankly get into given my situation).
So, friends, I'm looking, probably, for a player less than the repair costs of my 700 that does LD only (keep it simple, well, LD and CD, of course) and has an AC3 out.
Thoughts? The CLD-D704 looks like a nice player, but still a bit pricy for what it's going to be used for (once in a while playback of library discs - most stuff is being replaced with DVD, save those lovely criterions and SW discs that just ain't gonna be issued on the smaller disc format.)
Am I simply destined to blow $700 CDN at least on a new/used player, that, for all I know, will pooch upon shipping over the border?
Help.