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Automan · 04-22-2008, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Philip Hamm

Me, too. I have about 500 LaserDiscs and they look good enough to me on my 96" X1 to continue to enjoy. Also, they sound fairly terriffic.

RF demodulator can be somewhat expensive. Another option, if you're not particularly interested in "DVD-Audio" or "SACD" multichannel music formats, is to get an older Dolby Digital decoder which is equipped with a LD RF input and hook it up to your receiver's multichannel in. That's what I do, and it works great. Older Dolby Digital decoders can be had for fairly cheap. There's an Adcom decoder on ebay right now, I've used that model and it's quite nice.

I still have the standalone decoder (Sony EP90ES) from my old setup, still have my old H/K rec and H/K signed amp etc.

I would like the clean setup i have now, but i could as you said use that decoder again.... if just for the AC3 input, hmmmm..... I really have to think about it, if it's worth hooking that unit up to all my new stuff just to get that AC3 sound. Don't get me wrong, it sounded real good what i remember, but i have a very nice dvd player and a blu-ray player in my system, and that big nice Pioneer CLD98 laserdisc player... i just have to think about if it's worth it, it wont take much space and so on, but it has a manual power-switch on the unit, and the on/off is not controlled by the remote, other then that it looks nice and have no other "faults". It's just that it feels so stoneage having to puch a button on the unit to set it on/off.... or maybe im lazy

Sure miss those days when i bought movies on LD, just the right size, was real nice to look at both the cover, and pulling out those big shiny disc's.... the disc spinning up and then movietime

that feeling of the weight and size was perfect.
Even if they where kinda expencive, it sure felt like you bought something, not like today when you buy a dvd/blu-ray small packages and feels like you bought a music-cd by misstake or something.