@@12voltvids yes we have a community on Vcrs in southeast England but currently I'm the youngest vcr repairman at the age of 16 years as I'm fully aware that most of my customers say to me they want to watch their weddings or old walt disney tapes they are between the age of 30-80 right now
I used to fix CD players for a chain of music shops that were used to play cd's for customers. The normal faults were belts, disc motors, and lasers. If the motor bearings were on the way out the tracks on the outer rim of the disc would skip as the focus could not keep up with the disc flaping. You could get a few months more out of the laser by upping the current using the pot on the laser pcb. Belts would stop the tray loading and the user would push it hard in, breaking the closed contact, which stopped it working. They did have a hard life playing 9 or so hrs a day 7days a week but would last about a year before starting to fail.
Hello friends, how are you! I have a Pioneer Cld 3070 Laserdisc. The drawer opened off, and left the point. Thanks for any tips mate. Thank you very much!
I scored a Sony MDP-MR1 with 20 movie titles very cheap and the player looks like new in its box. It quick reverse too so no flipping the disc and remote.
I've always spelled Laserdisc with a c, just like for CDs, and pretty sure that's the way it's on the machines. Anything in print though, lots of people mix it up and use k instead of c (and vice versa where applicable, like hard disc instead of hard disk). Edit: Maybe some manufacturers did use a k in the early years. I thought I remember seeing one like that but memory could be wrong.
It's "disc" for optical media (CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray, and even magneto-optical discs), and "disk" for hard disk and magnetic storage (such as 8", 5.25", and 3.5" floppy drives and hard disk drives). Some people use the terms interchangeably but I've always used the different spellings the way I've described.
All kinds of cool stuff. I never had a laserdisc player, but we did had CED Videodisk players. Yes, I know, it's not as good as optical media. But at the time, it was our first way we could watch what we wanted, not just what was broadcasted. 1982 . The CED disks deteriorated and became unwatchable decades later. Our player is messed up too. The CED player and disks were cheaper, so that's why my father bought it instead of laserdisc player and discs.
Yamaha still make great guitars and related gear. Their made in japan guitar lines while not cheap have the fit and finish than anything built in merica.
When it comes to Laserdisk players the only ones that i attempt to repair are from Pioneer and any of the clones, many brands used Pioneer players and simply rebranded them with a different front panel design. Sony did make some good ones but they were never sold in the UK, their PAL players were similar to Pioneer's in that they were cheap flimsy designs with mediocre performance. The very best models were only sold in Japan, with a few that were only available in the USA. As for Yamaha, as shown here, they are mass market models and only worth a quick look as far as repairing them.
Agreed. They didn't sell especially well here in the UK - I've never actually seen a disc or player, even when they were current, and everyone I knew growing up in the 1980s had VCRs. I recall that by the time the market was ready for a better standard of picture than that offered by VHS, DVD had taken off and almost overnight, became a very accessibly-priced replacement. Laserdiscs don't seem a very practical format, even for their time - even their large size didn't eliminate the need for flipping and changing discs, and judging by the TH-cam videus i've seen, the players seem even more temperamental than VCRs, which is saying something! And unlike CDs, they're still an analogue technology, with all that entails. Perhaps it's because it didn't have much of a cultural impact here, and hence there's not much nostalgia around them, but I've never had much interest in laserdiscs.
There were many director cuts that were only released on laserdisk. Many film directors loved them and had special releases of their films on LD. Being may the 4th I am going to sit down and watch star wars on laser tonight. I have starwars, return of the Jedi and empire strikes back on laser. They are all cav disks and the movie spans 3 disks. I also have Beatles hard days night, help and yellow submarine on laser and every original Disney movie every released on the format. The uncensored version before all the woke demanded that they ban and edit scenes.
@@12voltvids Many boutique labels rip the Laserdisc audio for Blu-ray re-releases of films and also I love the vintage look of Laserdisc films. I still get them due to the color grading. I’m never getting rid of my James Cameron Laserdisc films.
Yamaha is not a name i would expect for electronics, motor cycles and keyboards yes. But that was years ago and manufacturers often do deals with outside companys. Cant trust a name badge, shame really.
What do you mean, not a name you'd expect for electronics? What range of years were you talking about? They've been making and selling electronics for many years.
Huh? Have you been living in a cave? Yamaha is one of the most respected amplifier brands on the market and have been for close to 50 years. I know you can be forgiven for not seeing them because they rarely break down, u like sansewage, "pie in ear" or Ken Wood".
I have a yamaha se 300 guitar that still works after close to 40 years and still sounds great too and I've moved all over the country with it and it still looks good too.
I'm a vcr repairman in the UK I like to watch theese channels and help people online on what issued they have and what they do to solve it
What people still use vcrs over there? I got out 20 years ago or I would have starved.
@@12voltvids yes we have a community on Vcrs in southeast England but currently I'm the youngest vcr repairman at the age of 16 years as I'm fully aware that most of my customers say to me they want to watch their weddings or old walt disney tapes they are between the age of 30-80 right now
@@12voltvids you forget that England proper has more people crammed in there than the US if I'm not mistaken haha
@@ickylovelywilliam3961 i started on VCRs at 16 too. In 1979
I used to fix CD players for a chain of music shops that were used to play cd's for customers. The normal faults were belts, disc motors, and lasers. If the motor bearings were on the way out the tracks on the outer rim of the disc would skip as the focus could not keep up with the disc flaping. You could get a few months more out of the laser by upping the current using the pot on the laser pcb. Belts would stop the tray loading and the user would push it hard in, breaking the closed contact, which stopped it working. They did have a hard life playing 9 or so hrs a day 7days a week but would last about a year before starting to fail.
I remember those Toshiba DVD players with that garbage spindle motor in them. Single bearing that wears out or something like that. What a POS.
Hello friends, how are you! I have a Pioneer Cld 3070 Laserdisc. The drawer opened off, and left the point. Thanks for any tips mate. Thank you very much!
I scored a Sony MDP-MR1 with 20 movie titles very cheap and the player looks like new in its box. It quick reverse too so no flipping the disc and remote.
What do you recommend for a laserdisc player ?
Do you use ceramic screw drivers for the clockwise turn dial?
is it disk or disc? 🤔🤔
I've always spelled Laserdisc with a c, just like for CDs, and pretty sure that's the way it's on the machines. Anything in print though, lots of people mix it up and use k instead of c (and vice versa where applicable, like hard disc instead of hard disk).
Edit: Maybe some manufacturers did use a k in the early years. I thought I remember seeing one like that but memory could be wrong.
@@purpleghost4083 yeah I've used both, I remember the "disk" spelling being used a lot on floppy disks for computers. 🤔🤔
Usually "disc" for optical, "disk" for magnetic .
It's "disc" for optical media (CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray, and even magneto-optical discs), and "disk" for hard disk and magnetic storage (such as 8", 5.25", and 3.5" floppy drives and hard disk drives). Some people use the terms interchangeably but I've always used the different spellings the way I've described.
All kinds of cool stuff. I never had a laserdisc player, but we did had CED Videodisk players. Yes, I know, it's not as good as optical media. But at the time, it was our first way we could watch what we wanted, not just what was broadcasted. 1982 . The CED disks deteriorated and became unwatchable decades later. Our player is messed up too. The CED player and disks were cheaper, so that's why my father bought it instead of laserdisc player and discs.
Ced was crap. A vinyl record read by diamond stylus to attempt to produce VHS quality images.
Yamaha still make great guitars and related gear. Their made in japan guitar lines while not cheap have the fit and finish than anything built in merica.
You gotta play Dragons Lair from beginning to end on all laser disc repairs. It's industry standard. Lol. I bet you have that game ehh?
When it comes to Laserdisk players the only ones that i attempt to repair are from Pioneer
and any of the clones, many brands used Pioneer players and simply rebranded them with
a different front panel design.
Sony did make some good ones but they were never sold in the UK, their PAL players
were similar to Pioneer's in that they were cheap flimsy designs with mediocre performance.
The very best models were only sold in Japan, with a few that were only available in the USA.
As for Yamaha, as shown here, they are mass market models and only worth a quick look
as far as repairing them.
I'm sure I saw a Sony laserdisc player once in my local branch of Sevenoaks hifi. 🤔🤔
@@markrowe8824 Sony released two Laserdisc players for the UK market, neither
gave a very good performance compared to the Pioneer models.
@@Barbarapape oh yeah, Pioneer ones were the best, no question.
Other than movies that were never released to DVD or Bluray, who wants these things?
Some LDs have special features that never got copied over to DVD/BD. Like Citeron Collection discs
@@KylesDigitalLab I'm intrigued. What are some good examples? What are we missing out on?
Agreed. They didn't sell especially well here in the UK - I've never actually seen a disc or player, even when they were current, and everyone I knew growing up in the 1980s had VCRs. I recall that by the time the market was ready for a better standard of picture than that offered by VHS, DVD had taken off and almost overnight, became a very accessibly-priced replacement. Laserdiscs don't seem a very practical format, even for their time - even their large size didn't eliminate the need for flipping and changing discs, and judging by the TH-cam videus i've seen, the players seem even more temperamental than VCRs, which is saying something! And unlike CDs, they're still an analogue technology, with all that entails. Perhaps it's because it didn't have much of a cultural impact here, and hence there's not much nostalgia around them, but I've never had much interest in laserdiscs.
There were many director cuts that were only released on laserdisk. Many film directors loved them and had special releases of their films on LD. Being may the 4th I am going to sit down and watch star wars on laser tonight. I have starwars, return of the Jedi and empire strikes back on laser. They are all cav disks and the movie spans 3 disks. I also have Beatles hard days night, help and yellow submarine on laser and every original Disney movie every released on the format. The uncensored version before all the woke demanded that they ban and edit scenes.
@@12voltvids Many boutique labels rip the Laserdisc audio for Blu-ray re-releases of films and also I love the vintage look of Laserdisc films. I still get them due to the color grading. I’m never getting rid of my James Cameron Laserdisc films.
Yamaha is not a name i would expect for electronics, motor cycles and keyboards yes.
But that was years ago and manufacturers often do deals with outside companys.
Cant trust a name badge, shame really.
What do you mean, not a name you'd expect for electronics? What range of years were you talking about? They've been making and selling electronics for many years.
@@purpleghost4083 still are although mostly high-end electronics now and home cinema amps.
Huh? Have you been living in a cave? Yamaha is one of the most respected amplifier brands on the market and have been for close to 50 years. I know you can be forgiven for not seeing them because they rarely break down, u like sansewage, "pie in ear" or Ken Wood".
Same with Hitachi
I have a yamaha se 300 guitar that still works after close to 40 years and still sounds great too and I've moved all over the country with it and it still looks good too.