Originally posted by: fffffff
I was wondering how good does the star wars laserdisc look on large widescreen tvs? I have a Pioneer CLD D504. Is that a good player or could I do much better?

Troy

The 504 is a decent player, but not great. You can do much much better. The star wars discs generally don't look too good on a widescreen TV. I find that the definitive collection set has about the best picture quality I've seen of the various releases. Besides your LD player, you also have to take into consideration the quality of the deinterlacer in the set and the quality of the aspect ratio modes to watch the films in their proper aspect ratio. A good quality ld player, a display with a quality deinterlacer, aspect ratio modes, and comb filter can make most LD look pretty good on widescreen sets. The star wars discs don't look great because the quality of the transfers themselves are not good.