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rnranimal said:

...Then I tried a 2 two-sided LDs and on each one, side one recorded fine, but side two on each had numerous samples which didn't match up.

The laser lens has different tracking settings for each side, so (for your player, as one of mine) when you play side "A" you have no problems, while playing side "B" there are problems (quite surely tracking issue).

If you use the player only to capture, you should not use the autoreverse, but play each laserdisc side on side "A" - when finished to capture the first side, just eject the disc, manually reverse it, and play the other side on side "A" again.

The thing is, I get the same results whether I use auto-reverse or not. It's always side 1 of both discs that recorded perfectly and side 2 which has inconsistencies. I'm guessing there has to be a problem with the discs, but I've looked closely at them and see no damage to the surface or the foil. Or maybe my player isn't so good at properly reproducing the digital audio track. Either way, it's a shame as I basically bought this player just to capture digital audio tracks. However, my Pioneer player has the CLV smear and this Panny does not, so I'll be looking into re-transferring the video if I can get a better picture.