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- From: baldwin@frodo.colorado.edu (Dan "Viper" Baldwin)
- Subject: Re: Pioneer CLD-D701 (my experiences)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.172124.6641@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
- References: <BzGyr4.H91@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <BzHEFq.GE0@icon.rose.hp.com> <1992Dec19.045515.27498@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:21:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.045515.27498@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
- |> In article <BzHEFq.GE0@icon.rose.hp.com> jimr@mothra.rose.hp.com (Jim Ranlett) writes:
- |> >
- |> >I believe they started selling them in May/June 92. My player had a
- |> >manufacturing date of April 1992. If you cannot afford a CLD-95 (~$1700?)
- |> >(reviewed by William Cruce in an earlier post), the D701 is worth looking
- |> >at. The Phillips CDV-488 is also well regarded, although I personally
- |> >have no experience with it, never having seen one.
- |> >
- |> It seems that the only conclusion about the D701 is that,
- |> although they work as intended, there is a large failure rate
- |> since there are several people in this group (myself included)
- |> who got players with problems.
- |> -- Ethan
- |>
- Anyone considering spending ~$1000 for an LD player should at
- least check out the Pioneer CLD-52--it is an Elite model without
- the digital effects. Out of curiosity ??? Do people use the digital
- features a lot ? Clean clv scan, slow mo,etc.
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- Dan
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