Now we need a player that plays all those formats + DVD & BluRay HD & 4K!

Hmmm... I was thinking you were going to close the drawer with all the discs in there, LOL

Amazing machine, this shows the true evolution of technology and engineering at its peak. Well done Pioneer, and thank you databits for this amazing video for the detail views inside of this truly amazing machine.

The missing circuitry might've been for the CLD-3070. That was up-model w/ digital frame memory (e.g. freeze-frame & trick-play options on CLV discs) & a jog dial. I had one up until about 10 years ago. And I remember it being SO slow to change sides, that it would pick a random still off the end of Side A, which it would display until it was ready to go.

Sheer technological elegance! Most admirable.

Very surprised for its age that the motherboard didn't have any leaks. Cool video!

Just started collecting Laserdisc last year. Just posted collection video on my channel. Love the format even though it's 40 years old and still going strong.

It's amazing how clean the PCBs of that machine looked in 1989. I'm used to the Sony Players since the late 90s and own until today an MDP-850d. The PCBs look so much overengineered an full so much of the huge case. The much oder Pioneer Player looks much cleaner and "simpler", what it seemingly isn't.

I always ran into tracking issues with the players I had. Over time they stopped reading the disks. Messing with the internal adjustment pots seemed to help for a short time. I still have some of the original discs from the 80's/90's. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

This is the most ingeniouse ,most advanced laserdisc played i,it avoids the need to swap laserdiscs the other side but by turning in reverse and by just using 1 laser wich can turn to the other side,rather then using 2 lasers. And the laserdisc video absolutely blows my mind, then quality reality looks sharp. And along it's digital output, this laserdisc player was mega ahead of it's time.

18:30 Sure, get that clip where Barbra Streisand sings out of tune... Great commercial LOL

It's awesome to see that you added a direct line video from the player. Hope to see this in your future videos too. Good work databits

Great video! I have the big brother, the 3080, I love those older Pioneers.

I've got a Mitsubishi M-V7010 LD player that is this model rebranded. It also has a glitchy tray mechanism which is probably the same gear problem yours had. Other than that, this model is an absolute beast!

I finally got my first LaserDisc player a little over a year ago and it's now my go-to for watching older movies. My only complaint is that my player doesn't do auto-reverse, so I have to manually flip the disc. It also sounds pretty cool when you hear the disc spin up.

Neat thing of the time. I'll take my Sony 4K Blu-Ray player over this any day. I will say the Pioneer Elite laser disc that I sold long ago, they were fun machines. Getting director's cut movies, and so on were fun.

Still my favourite format

With all that extra circuitry space, someone could possibly do a mod to have it play DVD, BLU-RAY's and even include a hard drive to store MP4's

I wouldn't say affordable, but I picked up a practically brand new one in the box with everything for it for $250 on eBay recently

"better sound than at the movies", sounds strange, yes. But I think that the presenter is referring to the fact that while AC3/Dolby Digital and DTS (and that sony system I don't remember the acronym for) were available in cinemas all the way back in the 80s, the hidden truth was that even in the 2000's a lot of still cinemas relied on the analog optical variable width 2 channel stereo track printed on to the film strip to get their surround sound. With that you'd get decent 4 channel LCRS matrixed sound output that sounded good enough for most audiences and truth be told, very few listeners can hear the difference between that and true discrete 6 digital channels. So what he said was true, from a certain point of view, as Obi Wan would look at it...

Laserdisc, still my favorite movie format

The belt with teeth is called a "cog belt". This type is used where a guaranteed drive, usually involving greater forces, is required. Ever see the LD-W1--- the model that plays both sides of 2 LDs ? How Cool Is That ???

That was pretty cool! Esp how it flips the head around to play side two.

I would totally be interested if it also plays up to DVD & Blu Ray.

Back in 1989, it really was not difficult to get better sound at home than most of the theaters around here. Heck we even had some mono theaters left. Most of the others sounded like mid-fi stereo only. Cineplex odeon was a standout with good sound all by itself for quite a while. Otherwise it wasn't until jurassic park in 1993 we had a number of theaters upgrade to DTS and things got better quickly after that.

Doing a search for that larger Sony chip, the CXD1135, it looks like it's a decoder, probably thus used for all the audio CD playback. The smaller chip, the CXK5816MY is a static memory chip. Used for buffering digital audio from the disk, perhaps?

I loved my laser disc. I had a Pioneer CLD925D which like this played both sides. The quality was amazing, considering the alternative was VHS in the UK. Even when DVD came out laser disc was so much superior until the 2nd / 3rd generation dvd players came out and even then I still preferred playing films on laser disc, it was an experience putting in a 12" shiny disc similar to vinyl records on a turn table. And CRT's had so much more superior blacks back then. I want my laser disc back along with my 120 film collection that I let go for nothing. I am so unhappy now. THANKS.

Wasn't there a laserdisc player that could play DVDs? A friend of mine's father had one but I never got the make and model number.

I would think the Sony chip is for cd audio playback

The Laser Disc system is a Phillips invention that used a Helium Neon gas laser to read the discs.

there also, a series of quite rare laserdisc with dvd bulit in, made by pioneer. the models Pioneer DVL series.

I've always preferred a player with an AC-3 output to a digital out. It's great to have but if I was forced to choose I'd go AC-3 out every time. I suppose it would depend on your setup though since as you said AC-3 requires a demodulator. For me though it's the opposite, my receiver has a built in demodulator but no DTS decoder so I actually needed a separate decoder box for DTS. The reasons I would deal with the extra hassle of tracking down extra components or player for an ac-3 setup over DTS though is a few reasons. First off depending on the setup it can be pretty hard to hear a difference between digital and analog. Maybe I'm not a huge audiophile or my ears are defective but I would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the two in my setup. second is there were only about 100 or so DTS laserdiscs and they tend to all be expensive as far as laserdiscs go. On the other hand AC-3 discs seem very much so more affordable and abundant. I don't know off hand how many LD's got released with AC-3 but it seems like a good number. As far as quality goes popular opinion seems to favor DTS but its not that much better and depending on the titles I hear may sound as good or worse. Of course you can always have the best of both worlds since there were several players with both AC-3 and digital out, along with analog outs of course.

The white plastic guide rails on each side of the unit that move back/forth to raise and lower the disc tray, what would cause them to freeze up? Is there a control arm that moves them? Not sure how the upper disc clamp assembly is supposed to rest on them either. The entire mechanism appears to be jammed. :-(

I had the 3070, it had a jog wheel with the play, ff, and rw buttons below it, I think it also had a still image feature

Databits i think i know what song it's on Your video of the CLD-M301 It's Miracle of the Moment song by Steven Cirtus Chapman

I wasn't expecting to see Mini-CD support in a LaserDisc player. I would love to see somebody reverse-engineer a LaserDisc player and build a brand new machine. Perhaps even a Hi-Vision player, or a LaserDisc/DVD combo, or even a Pioneer LaserActive.

I really need a new Laserdisc player. Mine didn't come with a remote and it only has controls for play, stop, rewind, fast forward, and 2 scan buttons. Nothing else. I can't even pause the movies but it works perfectly and only cost 20$

Have you seen the remote for these? Very cool complete with frame-by-frame jog wheel.

The digital out in this model is there only for 44/48/16bit PCM audio, not for DTS or Dolby digital.

Where can i get one of these? Wow do i want these features & series! Excellent! 😱☺

That thing looks really cool :o

You mentioned in the video that your unit came from eBay with the loading door unable to open and you thought it was a belt problem. Then you teased that it wasn’t but you never mention what the problem was or how you fixed it. I have the same problem with my 3070 and was hoping to find a solution in your video.

Do you guys have a Laserdisc player? If so. Now if it has read side a/b, what it's doing is reading you see one side on tv screen the laser moves to second side you see on tv screen part 2 of Rambo on screen. No manually flipping, the machine does the work.

Can you make a video comparing cheap and expensive blank DVD and BluRay media? I was just wondering about it! Love your videos, you're amazing!

I just stacked all of my discs into the tray as shown at the beginning of the video.... Didn't go so well.

Is the side turn mechanism really as quiet as this video seems to depict? I have a multisystem CLD-D925 and it's quite noisy whenever it's doing the side turning thing.

we'll done on the camera work to

very interesting video...thanks :)

I might get one of these just for kicks and grins. Are the laser disk expensive and is there a wide selection of movies?

I removed the tray to work on the gears and noticed that the gear that controls the tray has a tooth that is different from the rest. How do I align the tray?

I've got the same player with the same issue. Where did you find the alignment procedure for the loading mechanism?

NICE DIGITAL STEREO

It plays CDV (which is analogue, LaserDisc style video cut onto a CD) but does it play VCD or SVCD? (MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 digital video cut onto a CD, rather than a DVD) And where's the socket for the LaserActive moules? How are you supposed to run LD-ROMs or Mega LDs on this thing? (I'd love to see those games emulated, between Mednafen, Daphne, libretro and the LaserActive Preservation Project, there must be a way!) Perhaps the unpopulaed parts are for digital video that you'd find on a VCD, SVCD and DVD, or the DVD laser (which I always thought was done with a green laser) How much would you love to have one of these that could play all the formats this could as well as DVD and BluRay *and* run Daphne and even LaserActive software?

"...Pioneer Surround system..." HUH? Hahahahaha! That made it!

This is so cool

Now most bluray players don't even come with a front panel display and you have to buy a higher end model just to get one. Kind of gone backwards in some ways.

That side view of side a /b transition is just pure porn. Beautiful.

I wonder if there's one of these but with the addition of DVD

I’m used to watching DVDs and VHS tape‘s never Watch a laser disc I have never owned a laser disc next time I’m if I go to a thrift store and I see you later disc player and some laser discs I might get me some movies and player it like thrift store has one and if they’re cheap enough and they work right because I think laser disc look cooler than a DVD even know DVD is better picture quality laser disc just look I whole lot cooler looking then a DVD i’m in the voice app my phone it’s not doing so well every time I talk is says something different so if my spelling is really off I apologize that is the voice app on my phone which fault not mine but anyways great video and I can’t wait to see more laser disc videos in the future

So I got my front panel off and I can see the gears. Any idea on how to remove the tray and get down to the gears? (I have a Pioneer CLD-3070).

Amazing Machine!

cant it run crysis?

My cd player has dynamic breaking

I just got a 3" single for free from my library!

I picked up one it make it makes a loud noise and skips

At first I thought the video CD was a normal vcd

I just found CLD-2070 for $60 shall I get one?

proud owner of a Pioneer Dvl-919

So cool !!! :-D

think dvd looks a bit better still?

Awesome!

Very cool, but unfortunately no S-video... :(

will laserdiscs be worth anything one day like LP's?

I just recently bought the polar opposite of this player, a LDV-4200...no features whatsoever except stereo!

i have a cld1600

Sadly, this player doesnt play VCD format

What happens if you try playing an LP record in a laser disc player?

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Pioneer always loved to over-engineer there laserdisc players. Want your player to automatically switch from Side A to Side B? It's simple! Just add a carousel contraption inside that will flip the entire laser assembly over the disc! What's that? Or you could just add a second laser assembly on top? Nonsense! That's so complex it would never work! I guess laser assemblies must have been quite expensive to manufacture then. A player with two of them probably would have been far too expensive for anyone to buy them.

For some reason I'm finding the OSD of this player ugly to look at.

If you use an iPhone as your camera, guessing it’s mounted on some type of tripod, and that you do not use the awful flash on it for video lighting, but some type of external lighting? There is no way to get that kind of lighting on an iPhone otherwise. I fell into laserdisc decades ago- it truly is a dreadful format.

I HoPE ITS iN atmos Dolby Sorround

WWWWHAT!?!?!?!??!

Laserdiscs 5UCK. DVD, Blu-ray, and CD R0CK5

Your intro looks antiquated. Might wanna consider updating it.

You said "the unit" too many times.😒😒😒

Laserdiscs must be discontinued, I WANT DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😤😤😤😤😤😊😊😊😊😊☺☺☺☺☺☺☺

you said it will play all format. Sorry YOU ARE SO WRONG. What it will not play is DVD cannot play DVIX DISC and cannot play BLU-RAY, BLU-RAY 3D, BLU-RAY 4K.,. Well the list that I noted in those format is not invented yet. LAZER DISC was invented as a stepping stone to lead to DVD and DVIX DISC

we'll done on the camera work to

we'll done on the camera work to