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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Laser Video disk and CD-ROM
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Date: 4 Jun 90 11:26:56 GMT
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Well, my package from Halted Specialties arrived with the Pioneer LDV-1000
laser video disk player and control box, and a Hitachi CDR2500 CD-ROM player.
Neat stuff! For those that missed my original posting, these are surplus units.
The Pioneer was $100 ($70 without the control box and controller), and the
Hitachi was $50).

I was extremely disappointed when I played with the Pioneer and found out that
the laser tube was inoperable, and called Halted Specialties to find out if I
could get them to sell me either just a tube or another whole unit with a laser
tube that worked for sure. Imagine my syrprise to hear the fellow say "We
guarantee the laser tube"! They are going to replace it at no cost (except the
cost for me to ship the bad one). I think this is absolutely great service!
The Pioneer is a parallel unit, but the control box has a serial port, so I
have hopes that it will be usable with AmigaVision.

The control box for the Pioneer is a LASERDATA TRIO 110. It has a 37 pin
'computer port', a 24 pin Centronics style 'playe control' connector, a DB-9
'serial port', 2 BNC connectors (player video and video monitor, and 4 RCA
plugs (audio.. Left and Right, PLayer and Amp).

The Hitachi unit is full height, nice looking, and has a rather strange pinout.
It has a single 40 pin edge connector.

Any information I can beg, borrow, or buy would be much appreciated.

-larry

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