2018-08-28, 08:34 AM
(2018-06-30, 08:19 AM)zoidberg Wrote: At this point in time a good player is a working player. A lot of the spare parts are no longer available from Pioneer, many are having to buy 'junk' players for parts. MUSE players in particular are difficult to repair these days due to lack of spares. Many of the older generation players are better in this respect as they were built like tanks and are considered very reliable.
As for video outputs laserdisc is encoded as composite video, generally the comb filters within the players are considered crude compared to the comb filters in most recent capture cards. So unless you have one of the few players with an exceptional comb filter then the composite out is the way to go.
Indeed, perhaps a player without S-Video output would be the way to go, as most players with S-Video won't have "pure composite", though - their composite output will use the separated Y/C mixed back in to composite. IIRC, the X0 (BNC out only) has pure composite, and someone on OT said that the X9 does as well, but I'm not entirely convinced on that one as it's the player I use, and the composite still has some of the weird quirks of the player's comb filter, like the cross-hatch/dotcrawl patterns during ghosting.
