[vcf-midatlantic] OT: Anyone have an old laserdisc player?

[Matt Patoray]

Jason,

The best player for those discs is a Pioneer VP-1100 or a Sylvania VP-7200. The Pioneer VP-660 also works well.
Avoid the Sony LDP-1000 as almost all of them have laser tubes that have gone to air.

The Pioneer LD-S2 is about the only SS laser player that can play the disks but the old HeNe tube based players do better.

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> On Jul 28, 2016, at 10:45 AM, Jason Perkins via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> 
> I've got some late 70s / early 80s General Motors laserdiscs that I
> want to capture, but my 90s Sony player won't read them. I'd like to
> try the discs in a 70s player to see if there's any hope of getting
> them to play, but don't want to drop $$$ on a player when I'll only
> use it 4 or 5 times.
> 
> Does anyone on this list have a working player from 1984 or older with
> a gas tube laser? The GM dealers had Pioneer PR-7820's, I'd think that
> has the best chance of reading the discs.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Jason Perkins
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