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Just for fun I found a late 90s Pioneer Laser disc. As a blue-ray fan I don't expect it to blow me away but I am curious about a few things. One of them is can you use an upconverter on a Laser disc. I have access to one that upconverts to 720. Does it work with a Laser disc? Also will I see a significant difference if I use an S Video cable instead of RCA's
I realize this may be elementary to many of you but I am not the videophile that my wife is and both of us are technical neophytes.
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The picture is 'nice' but why bother? The only thing it is good for besides a doorstop is Museum discs in step motion CAV.
I paid $100. for the player. ANYONE paying more for any high quality LD player is wasting money on a very, very dead format.
PS: I THREW OUT several hundred lazerdisc movies.. including a big pile of Criterion titles.
Yes, you can send the output from a laserdisc player to a video processor to be upconverted. The player's output will be 480i and, depending on your video processor and display, will be interpolated to a higher resolution such as 720p, 1080i or 1080p.
While many laserdisc players had composite and S-video outputs, the video recorded on laserdiscs was composite: a comb filter was used to provide the S-video output. There were probably about 6 laserdisc players that actually realized S-video outputs which provided better picture quality, in their time, than if one just allowed the display to convert the composite output (the Pioneer CLD-79, CLD-97 and CLD-99, the Japanese market Pioneer X0 and X1 and a Runco THX certified player -- which was a modified Pioneer).
The question was whether the comb filter in the player was any better than the one in your TV. They're both processing the same composite video signal. I would expect that modern TVs have much better comb filters than were practical in the '90s, so don't worry about finding a player with S-video out.
I watched Natural Born Killers (the boxed set) recently, upconverted on a 720p Sony 16x9 CRT, and I was impressed by how good it looked and sounded.
Now, S/PDIF output is a rare and useful feature which I have not found on any thrift store laserdisc player. My Hitachi (really a Pioneer) had provision on the circuit board for an "export" version with S/PDIF out, so I just had to add a buffer circuit and drill a hole in the back panel. It means I can enjoy DTS laserdiscs at higher bitrates than (probably) any DVD. And it avoids an extra digital to analog to digital conversion stage for Dolby Surround or Prologic sources, which can't be a bad thing.
It also means I can potentially capture the PCM or DTS audio stream, which is valuable if the DVD or Bluray versions of a movie have been mutilated because of music licensing.
I made a poopsie!
Laserdisc is 425i, not 480i. Sorry 'bout dat.
nt
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