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- From: larson@loren.net.com (Alan Larson)
- Subject: Re: My Pioneer CLD-3090 just died
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.002540.21264@unet.net.com>
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- References: <92322.001150SHILL@HARPERVM.BITNET>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:25:40 GMT
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- In article <92322.001150SHILL@HARPERVM.BITNET> Steve W Hill <SHILL@HARPERVM.BITNET> writes:
- >Well, not completely. I've had it for 6 weeks. The box is labeled
- >CLD-3090/B, I'm pretty sure it's reconditioned. Anyway, three days
- >ago I popped in my new copy of King Kong just to see how it looked
- >before I went to bed. Looks great, I thought, and the commentary audio
- >track sounded interesting. The next day I put the disc back in and
- >the audio was fuzzy, crackling, with almost nothing registering on the
- >VU on my mixer. Audio from the TV speaker was the same. I put in a CD,
- >and I get NOTHING. No sound at all. BUT! If I play a CD, there is
- >no sound coming out, but when I press DISPLAY on the remote, the
- >on-screen VU display is normal. So I know that the player itself is
- >READING the audio, just not putting it out.
- >Any self-help advice or similar situations out there for me? Obviously
- >I'm taking the unit back. But someone give me a shoulder to cry on
- >about it. :)
-
- Well, my 3070/B randomly failed to switch from side A to side B,
- and (less often) wedged and would not give back the disc. (It
- gave it back just fine the next morning in the shop.)
-
- Also, when freezing something with the digital memory, the picture
- is often quite a bit lighter and very low quality -- much worse than
- my VHS freeze-field.
-
- It has been in the shop more than I have had it at home. I suspect
- it will be worn out before they figure out what is wrong with it. It
- feels like it was a big waste of money.
-
- The /B models probably were returned to Pioneer because they were
- lemons the first time around, and re-sent to the field when Pioneer
- couldn't discover the intermittent problems.
-
- Alan
-