dealy
Auditioning
- Joined
- May 11, 2003
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Hi,
I recently inherited a Pioneer D703 LD player. I've got it integrated into my HT system now but am pretty dissatisfied with the picture quality. While I wasn't expecting it to perform as well as my progressive dvd player, I was expecting it to be better than my SVHS player. I definitely have some regular VHS tapes (not even SVHS) that play better on my TV (Toshiba tw56x81) than the 3 LDs I've seen (the 3 star wars movies).
The LD's s-video out is noticably better than composite on my system. I've even used the same s-video cable that was plugged into the vcr to make things as apples to apples as possible. The skin tones often look greenish, the picture is generally muddy and of low contrast, and there are very faint horizontal distortions in the picture.
Any ideas what may be wrong? Should I expect this player to give a better picture than my VCR? Is it worth getting this thing fixed if that is an option here?
I am considering this because the player came with about 20 movies that I don't already have on DVD.
Thanks, Derek
I recently inherited a Pioneer D703 LD player. I've got it integrated into my HT system now but am pretty dissatisfied with the picture quality. While I wasn't expecting it to perform as well as my progressive dvd player, I was expecting it to be better than my SVHS player. I definitely have some regular VHS tapes (not even SVHS) that play better on my TV (Toshiba tw56x81) than the 3 LDs I've seen (the 3 star wars movies).
The LD's s-video out is noticably better than composite on my system. I've even used the same s-video cable that was plugged into the vcr to make things as apples to apples as possible. The skin tones often look greenish, the picture is generally muddy and of low contrast, and there are very faint horizontal distortions in the picture.
Any ideas what may be wrong? Should I expect this player to give a better picture than my VCR? Is it worth getting this thing fixed if that is an option here?
I am considering this because the player came with about 20 movies that I don't already have on DVD.
Thanks, Derek