Laserdisc Player

[Aldo WIngate]

Torch-

Get with the program LaserDisc is a poor man's system, the sad sack that cannot afford to modernize and get into the post 1980s technology. It had its day, but LD has gone the way of the Rubik's Cube. DEAD. Get into the new thing. it is spelled "D-V-D". They are CD sized discs that have movies on them and there are players made for them. They are called "D-V-D P-L-A-Y-E-R-S".

This is 2004, wake up!

[kelsci]

Mr. Wingate; While I currently do not use my Laserdisc Player too often playing Laserdiscs, this Pioneer CLD-90 product of the year was Pioneers first Multi-CD single Laserdisc player. I use it to play my CDs. I would not call it the best CD player on the market, but it is adequate with its use and has rather high specifications for a non-elite unit. Many later LD players had at least one CD tray and as such may still have use as a single play CD player until as such time that the laser finally blows. I once had a MDP-355 Sony unit which I returned because the picture quality was unclear plus picture wise, a few other things going on with it. In the audio department, the digital sound on the laserdisc was alittle on the weak side, but its digital sound quality off a laserdisc left Pioneers in the dust. I was tempted to almost keep this thing just for the use as a single CD player. It's CD sound quality was virtually distortion free with a completely natural sound quality that I still have not heard on any other CD or DVD player that plays CDs. This told me that the complaints for CD sound quality are warranted by many people, but the fault is lying with the manufacturers which is why CDs are not playing as well as they should. KELSCI

[This Guy]

just wondering aldo, do you still play cd's on your system? I mean, they are older than LD, and there is a new format out. Actualy two new formats for music listening. Wouldn't cd's be dead?

[Aldo WIngate]

Don't you have something better to do than trying to mess with "ole Aldo?

SACD and DVD-A: Outstanding sound. No question

You try to compare the DVD:LD scenario to the CD:SACD? Crazy moronic fool! That is comparing oranges and apples.

SACD and DVDA manufacturers can flood the market with their over-priced marginally improved product, but basic economic value theory, son, dictates obsolescence. In other words, you idiots, the demand for an improved product at a cheaper price will ALWAYS be more than the demand for the lower quality and more expensive item.

The SACD/DVD-A issue violates every law of economic theory. A higher priced product that is PERCEIVED by the consumer to be of COMPARABLE quality to that which sets the current market conditions, will NOT TAKE OVER THE MARKET!

You Audio knuckleheads can ponder that one, but the fact remains that no matter how great an SACD sounds, it will NEVER outsell the CD! To think that it would is foolish. And to take it one last step, if the SACD was to price itself at the same price as the CD, economics will tell you that the CD would STILL outsell the SACD by the SAME MARGIN. Hence the inflated price which is in fact a reflection of the cost + profit margin of the original CD + a greater margin of profit. Bottom line, SACD and DVD-A are really nothing more than a MONEY MAKING SCHEME!