kek@mgweed.UUCP (Kit Kimes) (01/03/85)
The latest issue of VIDEO magazine has an article on the PIONEER CLD-900. It is a player that will handle both CD audio disks and LV video disks in both the CX encoded versions and the new digital versions. The specs look very good and their listening and viewing test results were very good also. Estimated cost is $1150 - $1300. If anyone is going to the Winter CES, check it out and report your impressions to the net. Especially interesting would be the final announced suggested retail price. Kit Kimes AT&T Consumer Products Montgomery Works Montgomery, Il. 60538-0305 ..!ihnp4!mgweed!kek
stewart@ihldt.UUCP (R. J. Stewart) (01/08/85)
> The latest issue of VIDEO magazine has an article on the PIONEER CLD-900. > It is a player that will handle both CD audio disks and LV video disks > in both the CX encoded versions and the new digital versions. The > specs look very good and their listening and viewing test results were > very good also. Estimated cost is $1150 - $1300. If anyone is going > to the Winter CES, check it out and report your impressions to the net. > Especially interesting would be the final announced suggested retail > price. The 1-7-85 issue of USA TODAY had an article covering the Winter CES. This article quoted the price as $1200. This doesn't seem like a substantial discount over buying two separate units. Personally, I would rather buy them separately so that I could choose the combination of features that I want. Consider, for example, that the CLD-900 displays CD information (time remaining, time into selection, index) on the *video* screen. I'm not likely to leave my TV on while I'm listening to music, so I'd rather have these displayed on the panel. Oh, well. Maybe they'll get a competitor soon. Bob Stewart ihldt!stewart
andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) (01/09/85)
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"This [the Pioneer CLD-900] doesn't seem like a substantial
discount over buying two separate units [a laser videodisk
player and an audio CD player]. Personally, I would rather buy
them separately so that I could choose the combination of
features that I want."
This is the only videodisk player that can play the new digital
soundtracks. The first disk to be released with both conventional and
digital audio will be the third Star Trek movie, slated for January
release.
-- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew) [UUCP]
(orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay) [ARPA]greg@olivej.UUCP (Greg Paley) (01/10/85)
The price of the Pioneer CLD-900 is not much lower than the cost of two separate units, LV video disk player and audio CD player, might be. However, the unit has, as far as I know, one unique capability which is the ability to reproduce digitally encoded soundtracks on new (so far only available from Japan) LV video disks, which are different from the standard stereo soundtrack. Another point that needs more information to allow a value judgement on this unit is the performance level reached when playing the various media possible (LV video disk, audio CD, LV w/digital soundtrack) so as to know which individual LV and CD units provide the appropriate comparison. If it were to surpass the capability of the current top-of-the-line Pioneer LV disk player (approx $700) and, in addition, match the CD playback of the NEC or Kyocera CD players (approx. $1000), then at a list price of $1200 (which would, I presume, also be subject to heavy discounts) it might be a bargain indeed. - Greg Paley