Originally posted by: Moth3r

Originally posted by: Laserman
I am still holding out hope that the PAL discs will give us something even better, there is definately more detail, better colour and no 3:2 pulldown issues to deal with. Getting it back to 24fps is absolutely no problem. The real task is finding a working PAL laserdisc player of the X0 calibre....

AFAIK there was never a PAL player of that calibre. The top 2 PAL machines are the 2950 and the D925. Not much to choose between them, but I have heard the 2950 has a less noisy picture.

There are issues I've found with my 1995 French PAL discs - the image is cropped more than the NTSC versions, and there are small portions missing at the end of some sides. I don't know if the German or Spanish sets have the same problems.

The 1989 French releases were apparently poor quality pressings.

I think the nearest us PAL people got to a higher spec LD player was maybe a custom jobbie from The Theta corp either a data 3 or voyager which used the OEM internals from the pioneer players but then added custom vid processing stuff this made them have a supposedly better output then the standard pioneers AFAIK but they also cost a bomb £5,000 - 6,000 pic here

Voyager info here I haven't seen a PAL 2nd hand one for sale yet