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#386677
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Any info on Pioneer LD-V4000
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Recently spotted this player on eBay UK - it appears that a PAL version of this player was also manufactured.

What I've found out so far: it's a well-built industrial model dating from around 1984, it has a BNC composite video output (the PAL version also has a SCART output), and it has analogue audio playback only.

Questions:
1. Is the composite out a "pure" output (i.e. not pushed through any outdated comb filters)?
2. How would the PQ compare with my D925 - bearing in mind that the optical reading/decoding hardware in the V4000 is several generations older?
3. Does the PAL model also play NTSC discs?

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#386469
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Help Wanted: Laserdisc Preservations - can someone preserve my discs for me?
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The last person to ask a similar question did not get any replies, unfortunately.

I helped out fellow UK member SeeNoEvil with a transfer last year, but these days I don't have the time to be doing analogue captures.

My advice would be to forget about getting a transfer from an X0, and set yourself a more realistic goal. Look on eBay, get yourself a cheapish player (you might want to consider the V8000, currently at $40 finishing in 6 hours). You can also get PCI capture cards very cheaply.

Failing that, you could always pay for a conversion service such as the one mentioned in this thread.

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#386463
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Worst of Wookiepedia
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Gaffer Tape said:

C3PX said:

This is one of the greatest and most amusing things I have ever read! I am now more proud than ever to be a member of originaltrilogy.com!

"The site is also notorious for its handful of extremely vulgar and disrespectful members, who enjoy tormenting sensitive people and people who disagree with them and running them off the site, and its corrupt moderator, Moth3r, who abuses his power and encourages all the offensive behavior on the site. Such victims of these actions are Warbler, Adamwankenobi, ZigFried, and many others.

Several complaints about Originaltrilogy.com were sent to the Internet Police Corporation known as ICANN, and they are currently looking into either cleaning up the site's dirty act, or simply shutting it down."

I am very curious as to who wrote this. Seems like it was written by the very sort who would put me on their ignore list. Or maybe is was one of those damn orcs from a few years back...

So, just out of curiousity, can someone please explain to me how these ICANN jokers would have the ability to clean up our "dirty act" (makes it sound like we are in the porn business) or shut us down? Sounds like a bunch of BS to me.

That was probably AWK who wrote that.  I remember him saying back when he was here that he would vandalize Wookiee... Wookie... um, that place.

If you look at the history, you would see that AWK actually created the article. The little piece above was added by Zigfried at a later date.

It now looks like someone has noticed the article (probably due to the recent activity as a result of this thread) and decided it should be removed from their wiki.

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#386260
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If Looks Could Kill (1991) Preservation [cancelled release due to official DVD]
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Monroville said:

Sooooo, is this going on fanedit.org?

Unlikely as it is not a fan edit.

Not to be rude, but if it isn't available for d@wnl@ad in some form, why post the information regarding an edit no one can see?

  1. Not rude, just ignorant.
  2. Why did you replace the 'o's with '@'s in 'download'?
  3. This is not an 'edit'.
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#385469
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Need Help to sync DD 5.1 LD rip to LD video capture for 97 SE "Take 2" Set
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The point is that if the audio is supposed to be played back at 47952Hz and instead it's played at 48000Hz, it will be slightly too fast. But I am 99% certain that LD PCM is 44.1kHz and LD AC3 is 48kHz, so unless someone can find a reliable source to prove me wrong, this is not the issue here. 

dark_jedi said:

but 1 thing I looked at for the hell of it was I compared the stereo wav file I made from the ac3 file(for sync'ing) to the wav file my capture created to see how the waves from the audio line up in Audition,and they both look pretty identical,the highs and lows in the waveform almost match up perfectly,again not sure if this helps I am just graspping now to figure this out,although I did not zoom in,maybe should do that.

Yes you should do that, you might notice something. Zoom in far enough so that you can see the waveforms of individual sounds or spoken words.