Ja, jag har precis skrivit en LÅNG tråd om detta på avsforum så istället för att skriva om allt igen så väljer jag att lägga den engelska texten direkt. Tror nog ni var snälla i skolan så ni förstår
Sedan så kör jag ingen poll här heller. Någon som har frågor, fråga på. Sedan, vilken föredrar du?
Hi!
In these day's when most talk is about HDTV and what future format we will be using it seems a bit crazy to talk about Laserdisc and even more crazy to spend money on a dead format. But then again, there are a few people that want the best players for their original Star Wars trilogy or other movies/music/etc that are still not on DVD. I'm one of them.
Before the internet grew as big as it is now, the reference laserdisc players was the Pioneer CLD-97, or CLD-99 depending on what person you talk with (yes, I know about the Runco & Theta, but they where still Pioneer/Panasonic player with mostly "better audio"). But with forums like this, we got to know that Pioneer in Japan made even better machines for the Asian market. The players most talked about was/is the Pioneer LD-S9, HLD-X9 and the HLD-X0. All three players gave a better picture than the US reference's, CLD-97/99.
So some people with big collections or simply wanted the best from the dead laserdisc format got a LD-S9 (around 1350$ new) or even a HLD-X9 (around 2600$ new). A very few did even look at the 80lb, single sided monster HLD-X0 (around 7000$ new). And a even fewer have a chance to compare these monsters, to see if there is any difference, and what one prefered. Now, I have made this.
The test was made like this; I used a Monster 3 s-video cable to a PDI Deluxe Card and captured the signal with the huffyuv program. According to knowledge people on this forum the PDI card is one of the best on the market, and the huffyuv capture the ld signal without any loss in quality (lossless, 1 min captured LD are 600MB avi!).
Then I used virtual dub to copy the exactally the same frame from both HLD-X9 and HLD-X0. I used the Ep1 japanese LD, it's one of the reference disc's on LD (but have some EE), and first Star Wars in the Definitive set (not reference quality), to see how it handles a little worse picture.
I also didn't write which player is which, just so we can have a "blindtest". So please look at the pictures really close, make up your mind what player you prefer the picture from and vote. In one frame maybe one player is better than the other and the other way around next. People with non-CRT monitors maybe also give another answer than people with CRT monitors, this have been the case with the 7-8 people that have looked already (the 2 that prefered one player had a non-CRT monitor).
I also know that looking at some frames is not the 100% story, but in this case it's really close. The frames are exactally what the players send out, I have not change anything. So download the pictures, look and make up your mind.
**NO talk about copying and ripping, this is just a test between two laserdisc players**
So, let the party get starting
Ep 1 we used the s-video "standard" mode on both players for these frames
Player A
http://www.2l8.nu/dholm/test/A1.bmp
Player B
http://www.2l8.nu/dholm/test/B1.bmp
Player A
http://www.2l8.nu/dholm/test/A3.bmp
Player B
http://www.2l8.nu/dholm/test/B3.bmp
Player A
http://www.2l8.nu/dholm/test/A6.bmp
Player B
http://www.2l8.nu/dholm/test/B6.bmp
For the Star Wars frames I used the s-video mode "sport" mode on both players. The Standard mode should clean up the picture a little more.
Player A
http://www.2l8.nu/dholm/test/A2.bmp
Player B
http://www.2l8.nu/dholm/test/B2.bmp
Player A
http://www.2l8.nu/dholm/test/A4.bmp
Player B
http://www.2l8.nu/dholm/test/B4.bmp
Player A
http://www.2l8.nu/dholm/test/A5.bmp
Player B
http://www.2l8.nu/dholm/test/B5.bmp
So now, what player do you prefer?
/Mattias
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//svartpippi
Redigerat av svartpippi, 19 October 2004 - 08:56.
