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From: andrew@hammer.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: LaserVision - CLD 900
Message-ID: <1767@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jan-86 03:43:43 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 20 03:43:43 1986
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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	"I just purchased a Pioneer CLD 900,  you know,  the one that
	plays laser video disks AND compact disks ... I played about 5
	movies on it which were all "Extended Play" (CLV) disks and all
	5 of them looked terrible!  There was actually static in the
	picture.  It also didn't seem to have the awesome resolution
	I've heard about. So much for the "state of the art video"
	format!"

Sounds like you have a defective machine.  Make your dealer exchange
it.  I have several dozen CLV disks, and they all exhibit the "awesome
resolution" that you're looking for.

On the other hand, about one in five disks are defective and have to be
exchanged.  This is a good reason to develop a relationship with a
local dealer and shun mail order.  My dealer (High Tech Video, Tigard,
Oregon) let me return a defective disk more than a year after I bought
it, and she never asks to see receipts.  (I bought a Christmas movie in
1984 and didn't watch it until Christmas 1985.)

I've had terrible experience with defective video equipment.  Both my
VCRs and my monitor had major defects and had to be exchanged.  In
fact, the only piece of video equipment that worked the first time was
my LD-1100 Laserdisk (tm) player.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]