Close a thread I just joined?! Not bloody likely!

Fine, YOU deal with this crap, I'm sick of it.

Off course it should not be closed, just because some don't agree with you. If you could please state what I have said wrong, than I would agree that I have not been correct. But I need you to quote me on that, not say I have said something.

Too bad that the very few that could have been intrested in a laserdisc thread have to see all this.

I've gone a couple months now without finding a laserdisc deal worth buying (to me at least), so I've decided to part with my player.

Free to a good home, but local pickup only obviously (I'm not mailing this 60 pound behemoth).

It may have already been suggested but if your local library stocked LDs and hasn't removed them, they might accept the player.

I'm keeping mine, as there are still a few titles available on LD that aren't out on DVD (like "The Nude Bomb").

My very first LaserDisc title! (Still have it)

too bad, as I would love to have it...won't be anywhere close soon though...might stick it on craigslist...it would be gone within a day i assume

Do you not own any discs now that you might want to watch in the future?

I've never owned a single laserdisc.

I was hoping to find great bargains on disc lots, but nothing came up. Years of averaging $7 or so per DVD have jaded me

There are several titles not on DVD that I'd love to own (Nude Bomb among them).

But weighing all the factors (hundreds behind in watching my DVDs, eventual DVD release of titles I want, space limitations in my home, cost of the rare laserdisc titles I want), someone else can get more use out of this player than I.

I do appreciate the input from you all, and at least it started a laserdisc conversation again.

I got rid of my Pioneer ld player with auto reverse and all all the top features for $20 a couple years back at garage sale-the guy who bought it was going to use it as cd player lol...I had paid $1000 for it at Good Guys RIP. My last few laser discs were collector sets like Jaws that I paid around $100 each for at Tower Records RIP and just donated them hehe.
Looking back probally should have kept it as there were some nice Criterion Laser sets that can now be had cheap and we will probally never see on dvd.

Not that I wanted to even read this thread again, but for my part, I'll probably own a LaserDisc player until the day I die (or it does).

Trevor, I'm in your area and will be happy to take the player off your hands.

I still have mine, too (I bought it new at a fire-sale discount from Pioneer about 2001).

I still have my LD player. Personally I think the transfer of Star Wars on LD is better than the new Limited Edition DVD release of the original versions of the Trilogy. I believe Lucas said that the DVD release came off the same prints as the LD, but it doesn't appear that way to my eyes.

I still have a few players, but it's only a matter of time before thay all crap out, even though I rarely use them anymore. I pretty much replaced all my fave lasers with DVD, though the ones that still haven't seen the light of day on DVD have been burned to DVD-R, just in case.

this might be the gayest thread ever...i think nin74 argued for the sake or arguing. Mike Adams, quit wasting your time trying to educate.

You cannot read the same thread as I. As I said before, quote me where I stated things that are wrong.

I have.

Thank god for that, we don't need more mis-information here.

I think I'll do the world a favor and delete this thread.

Snippy comments like this are not needed.

I actually have 2 laserdisc players and my older one (from 1992) gives a better picture than the one with auto-reverse that is from 4 years later. Figure that shit out?

i'll be getting rid of both of them soon, methinks.

What are the model numbers?

Pioneer players were released in quality tiers, with the CLD-D70x players at the top of the food chain and the CLD-D1xx and CLD-D2xx at the bottom. A CLD-D701 from 1992 would probably be a better player than a CLD-D406 from 1995, for example.

It would be appreciated.

Yep. I have a CLD-D701,703,504 and the DVL-700. The earlier 701 & 703 destroy the the 504 in PQ. They also beat the "new" DVL 700 which turned out to be a crappy DVD AND LD player. I made a big mistake passing up the 704's to wait for the DVL700 and it's AC3 jack.