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- From: jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke)
- Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
- Subject: Re: LD Player Questions
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 18:26:15 GMT
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- In article <18692@mindlink.bc.ca> Mike Quigley, Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca
- writes:
- >First off, does anyone know anything about the Kenwood LD player LVD-320? I'd
- >like to know who makes it. The store selling it locally for about $500 says
- >it's not made by Pioneer. A friend said it was Sony, but another store (a
- >competitor) thinks it is made by Samsung.
-
- Sony laser disc players are made by Sony -- they are the only other company
- that makes their own laser disc players from bottom up (all others use the
- video from a pioneer player and change the audio part to their own.) If you
- plan to get a new Sony, look for the MDP-455 which replaces the MPD-333 -- all
- the stores I've looked in still only have the old model, though. Apparently
- it is available via mail order, though.
-
- >
- >Second, if I buy the cheap Pioneer player, which doesn't have numbers on the
- >remote control to do things like chapter, tracks, etc., and I get a remote
- >from a higher up model of the same year's vintage which DOES have these
- >numbers, will the numbers register if I use this second remote? What about
- >other features like pause in CAV, slow motion, etc.?
-
- I can't say with certainty about this specific feature, but when I was looking
- a laser disc players I asked a salesperson about this and they took the remote
- from a Pioneer player that had one of those knob type forward/reverse controls
- and tested to see if it would work with the low end player that did not have
- one on the remote. It did, in fact, work. So did some other things we tried.
- The numeric keypad should almost certainly work, but test it out -- go to a
- store that sells several Pioneer models and try it.
-
- Steve
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