In most of what I read, it says there's no quality difference between CAV & CLV and I believe in most cases that is probably true. But for some reason, my Pioneer LD-V8000 has smear with all CLV discs. CAV have no smear and a noticably sharper picture (on my player). I don't doubt that CAV & CLV discs carry the same quality picture, but it comes down to how the player handles each format. On my player the DC set wins hands down over the faces set, because of this issue.
In most of what I read, it says there's no quality difference between CAV & CLV and I believe in most cases that is probably true. But for some reason, my Pioneer LD-V8000 has smear with all CLV discs. CAV have no smear and a noticably sharper picture (on my player). I don't doubt that CAV & CLV discs carry the same quality picture, but it comes down to how the player handles each format. On my player the DC set wins hands down over the faces set, because of this issue.