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- Subject: Re: LD Player Questions
- Message-ID: <BzMyM6.1zA@inform.co.nz>
- From: dev2@inform.co.nz (Michael Seales)
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:56:29 GMT
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- References: <18692@mindlink.bc.ca> <1992Dec21.182615.17315@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1992Dec21.182615.17315@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov>, jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Stephen Jonke) writes:
- > In article <18692@mindlink.bc.ca> Mike Quigley, Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca
- > writes:
- > 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.
-
- I have a MDP-533D and I'm very happy with it. (FYI)
-
- > >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.
-
- Yup. I tried a fancy Sony remote with numeric keypad on a plain bottom-line
- Sony CD player that didn't have a music calendar or anything and it worked. I
- think all manufacturers make their remotes interchangeable, makes sense really.
-
- > Steve
- > ------------------------
- > jonke@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov
- > ------------------------
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