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What LED TV mates well with a laserdisc player?

Posted by centaurus3200 (A) on June 29, 2011 at 22:00:21

yes, i'm being serious ;-)

i mainly use my Pioneer Elite CLD-79 for a transport for my old skool theta DSPro GEN III DAC, but i do enjoy spinning the silver saucers every once in a while. LDs hearken back to my youth, they are a fricken dollar used in many cases, have uncompressed CD quality audio... and i like to freak people out at parties ;-)

i'm currently just using an old Sony Wega 27" CRT TV through the S-video output of the 79. comparing both S-video (using the 79's 3 line comb filter) and the composite out to the TV (using the TVs comb filter) the S-video out looks better. i'm using decent cables in both instances. the s-video cable is a monster cable. and the composite is a 75ohm MIT cable.

the color and sharpness looks awesome (i don't use DNR) - still have some chroma noise on pure blacks - but what can you do short of buying a fricken X0 or X9 LD player, eh?

which begs the question - i've heard many opinions regarding the 3D digital comb filters in new HDTVs. some say they are so advanced that they do NOT look good on laserdiscs (which doesn't make sense to me - the better the CF, the better the picture, regardless of medium, eh?) other say the comb filters in modern HDTVs are cheap and geared to digital component (like bluray and dvd) but are actually NOT high-quality. hence why they suck for analog sources, like LD. and others say the comb filters look great.

all this is so device dependent. anybody know what current LED HDTVs have bad-ass comb filters? i've heard vizio's filters suck - but their TVs are so cheap and tempting!

i am on the lookout for a fairly priced CLD-97, but that will take some time. the 97 is older than the 79, has a crappier internal comb filter, but the composite is supposedly a fair amount better than the 79 - mainly because the 97 was built to the hilt and weighs like 45 pounds. i also want the 97 because it's one of the best CD transports around (it's the base for mcintosh's MLD-7020 LD/cd transport)

basically, any amazing LED HDTVs out there with a comb filter that competes with a cristalio or something? would a scaler help? i can buy an old school faroudja scaler for like nothing

see ya,
Robby

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