Awesome video. I like how passionate you are at explaining things. That disc rot results that you played on the CD Video disc is heartbreaking. The content is fading away. Reminds me of those disposable DivX DVDs. The CD Video discs that played fine look great, better than I expected. Would you say it looks as good or better than a VCD? I never had a player capable of playing CD Video discs, but was thinking of getting one.

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It's no wonder, really, that CD Audio/CD-V units are so rare these days. Back when CD-Video was in vogue, regular CD players were fairly expensive on their own. For the money you'd have to spend to get something like that Yamaha CD-V player, you could have just bought a LaserDisc combi-player and had the ability to play laser videodiscs as well as CDs and CD-Vs. The expense versus value didn't make much sense. As for the video quality issues on the Yamaha compared to the Pioneer, it should be noted that there is no error correction involved in that case. The signal extracted off of the disc when playing the video portion is analogue; there is digital stereo sound, but the bitstream is contained within analog subcarriers. As the signal is analogue, there is no mathematical mechanism for correcting errors, such as CIRC on CD Digital Audio. The most that you've got for "error correction" for the video part is dropout compensation, which is working overtime on parts of the disc that are rotted. Without dropout compensation, the blue and red speckles throughout the video would look more like massive single line dropouts throughout the same. Of course, dropout compensation is only for the video and does nothing for the digital sound, as we hear on 19:41. The herringbone-type noise we see at 20:27 on the video is crosstalk distortion, and that is usually because the calibration of the optics and/or optical servo circuits on the player is not optimal. The Yamaha might be in need of service, but having it done must involve the use of a calibration reference disc as well as the service manual to tell you which test points to hook up to and how patterns on an oscilloscope are supposed to look like ... so good luck finding anybody who can fix it, then.

Awesome!!

Another great video, just need more of them!

Woah! That's cool

all-in-one!

I never heard of this format. Very cool! You lost me on the part about comparing CD audio quality, though. Whatever you're trying to demonstrate there, it didn't come through for me on KZfaq. You mentioned that it has no digital output. Now I'm curious, have you ever tried using a CD player as a transport with an external DAC?