kevin@voder.UUCP (The Last Bugfighter) (03/07/86)
If you've been looking for a good price on a laser disc player Starship
Audio Industries has the N.A.P. Magnavox VC-8040 on sale for $288.00, the
price includes UPS ground shipment.
This unit is almost identical to the Pioneer LD-700 (slight cosmetic
changes and I believe the slow-motion speed range is not as wide) and is a
front-loading unit with a solid state laser on sale until April 1.
Starship also has an excellent selection of laser discs and all prices are
10% off list. First time customers get 15% off and they quite often have
sales on older discs. They have a 24-hour hotline that gives current and up-
coming disc release information at 703/430-0330. They have a phenomenal
warranty in that a defective disc may be returned at any time as long as it is
still being manufactured or, if not, if it's still in stock. I have returned
a couple of discs for very minor (but irritating) defects and they've been re-
placed with no question.
Their catalog is free and they mail quarterly updates. The catalog is also
full of useful information about laser discs, how they're made (individual
manufacturer's defect rates), the players, and the studios that release them.
Starship Audio-Industries
605 Utterback Store road
Great Falls, Virginia 22066
order lines: 703/430-8692 703/450-5780
Disclaimer:
I don't work for these guys or know anyone who does, but there's a guy down
the street whose mother has a sister whose son has a son that once worked for
DiscoVision in 1981 for three months as a stockroom worker and had considered
purchasing a disc player but instead got a pair of radials with raised white
letters for the rear of his Dodge Colt and this really neat gearshift lever
knob that has a built in LCD clock with an alarm and an accelerometer that can
measures in G's but he sold the car a year later to this guy from Oregon and I
don't know what he's driving now. Does that count?
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Kevin Thompson {ucbvax,ihnp4!nsc}!voder!kevin
"It's a sort of threat, you see. I've never been very good at them
myself but I'm told they can be very effective."john@gcc-milo.ARPA (John Allred) (03/09/86)
From some research I've been doing concerning mail order/online prices:
USAA Buying Service CompuStore (via Compuserv)
Sony KV-25XBR $1020.74 $987.97
Sony SL-HF900 999.22 962.06
Pioneer CLV-900 866.22 875.71
The 25XBR is a top of the line monitor. The HF900 is the top of the line
SuperBeta VCR, and the CLV-900 is a digital LaserDisc/CD player.
Prices include shipping to Massachusetts.
USAA Buying Service is only available to subscribers (ie, you have bought
insurance from them.)
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John Allred
General Computer Company
uucp: seismo!harvard!gcc-milo!johnric@rrm.UUCP (03/15/86)
I have dealt with these people for several years now, and have found them to
be prompt and accurate on all my orders. Seem like good people to deal with.
ric
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