Congrats on getting your first player! Enjoy the money pit! :P Always check each disc for cracks before you load it into the player. The discs spin at a very high RPM and cracked discs can explode, destroying the disc and the player. As others said, set your television to 4x3 mode and use the Zoom to have widescreen films touch both sides of the television. Composite is the best connection for LaserDisc players, despite some having S-Video. The discs were mastered with that color space in mind, and composite properly displays it. To avoid using the A->B auto turn function, simply push the Side A button on the remote or the player. It will only play side A, and you will need to manually flip the disc to access the other side. Just as a note, Japanese discs are mastered at a different IRE level, so they will appear to have very crushed blacks on non NTSC-J televisions. Thank you for sharing!
Nice score! Looks practically new. Panasonic players don't show up that much as Pioneer was the dominant company. All the microphone inputs and "magic voice" buttons are for karaoke! Many LD players were used for that as before DVD it was the easiest way to serve multiple music videos and it supported a digital subtitle track, so you could sing along to the words. One thing to keep in mind is that all laserdiscs are 4:3 aspect ratio, as they expect an old school CRT tube television. On your LCD screen, make sure you set it to 4:3 mode - and you can play with your tv Zoom buttons too for letterbox films - or your picture will be horizontally stretched (everyone gets fat heads). A/B side flip is still mental to me how it works, the whole laser assembly does a little flip inside to play the underside of the disc. CAV = Constant angular velocity, those discs will have slightly better picture quality, 30 minutes per side and when you pause you get a still frame. CLV = Constant linear velocity, slightly less video quality (not much) but 60 minutes per side. On most players this also means when you pause, as you saw, you don't see a still frame. The very last high end players got around this problem though. Enjoy your machine!
@@britneyspaulding oh yes they will be letterbox, but they are not 16:9 enhanced for modern widescreen television. So you need to set the tv to 4:3 then use the zoom. You'll see the difference!
@@ExplosiveAction You don't need to set the TV to 4:3. You should set it to original aspect ratio and then it will display both 16:9 and 4:3 correctly without manually changing it every time.
CAV means every frame is a full ring on the disc (hence the name), meaning that pausing and fast forwarding on thise discs is remarkably smooth, even for today
Nice job 👍and such a bargain player too!👌I love my Laserdiscs. I watch all my favourite old horror and "b movies" on ld because the format has that genuine retro feel.
@LiliMarco1 When Brit shows the laser disk, my neighbours kid was watching and she said "Wow that's a big CD". She had never seen a laser disk before and thought it was a giant CD.
Nice pick up, Panasonic is a nice brand for LD players. Might want to check the zoom settings on that TV so the image isn't stretched. Got a sub here always good to see LD content ;).
My very first time I seen one of these was when I was in school & in class we watched the outsiders. I've always wanted one of these & 24 yrs later I finally scored one on a app called letgo now it's called OfferUp but anyways. One day I was looking on there & by surprise I came across one it was a pioneer CLD-D704 player & 55 movie's that came with it & the seller was only wanting $30 for it all. Needless to say I finally became a proud owner of a very good laserdisc player. The best part of it all the seller even personally delivered it to me the same day. It looked & played like new with no issues other than I had to replace the loading belt but other than that it works great & I've had for a lil over 3yrs now & no issues with it.... Like you said have fun trying to find one for a good price. These things are expensive even the ones that don't work are still pretty expensive especially the one I have that thing goes for like $300 to $600 on ebay. Crazy what sum don't realize what they have. So ya it was a pretty awesome find. I'm also a vintage electronics nerd...... Nice find!!!!!!
In a case of coincidence, I happened to purchase a Panasonic Laserdisc player several years ago. It was a LX-101, and I found it in a Charity Shop here in Australia. It only cost $60AU. And it works great! I also happen to have copies of T2 Special Edition, and Toy Story on Laserdisc like you do.
Nice! I recently picked up a Panasonic LX-V850. Perfect condition. Stunning. No remote though. Paid $170 AUD. Thought that was a decent deal. I use an old Logitech Harmony Remote which is good enough
Yes that is a clean nice looking unit. 👌 I just picked up a panasonic lx-900 the jog wheel is missing but he never really used it and the unit looks clean like yours. I can find a jog wheel and I already ordered a remote and a lot of LD's to add to the collection..... Aye have fun watching on your new machine ("
If you're weird that I'm weird haha.. I love laser disc as well.. It's the best format.. Period.. So much fun and tactile.. Enjoy your new player... 👍👍
Oh hell yeah! Laserdisc is my favourite disc format of all time, I have a Sony laserdisc karaoke player that has a feature to automatically change sides, lucky for me I didn’t pay $400 AUD for my player, maybe $250? It was a while ago, and of course I’ve got a collection of movies as well over time all from eBay, what helped boost my collection I bought a couple large bulk lots from an Aussie seller $70 each all Japanese imports, he was making some space selling off spares making room for more Japanese laserdiscs he ordered, I just wish the first Harry Potter movie was released on laserdisc that thing would be worth a fortune now I reckon, anyway thank you for your laserdisc video, one day I should make a video too.
In short CAV: one rotation of the disc is 1 frame and the discs width is split up up into frames, it's accurate but can only hold 30 minutes on each side. CLV: the frames are in one continuous track from the inside to the outside, while you lose the frame by frame viewing (although some players have a digital framebuffer), you will have 55 minutes on each side.
Would have been cool to see it on a larger TV screen the laser disc itself was larger than the TV . I'm glad I never got into laser disc, only VHS I think the video quality is probably comparable to DVD quality and takes up alot of space and probably very expensive for the time . Cool to see though since I never had a laser disc.
Ok now i remember. Ordinary laser disc is called CLV and offers No still image when pausing. The more expensive CAV versions offered pefectly still images, and search by frame number.
Hola,tambien soy de Perú,siempre quise uno pero los precios aun estan muy altos,me conformo con mis Beta,VHS que aun tengo operativos asi como ;DVD;Blu Ray,USB y ahora un Ultra HD que he comprado hace poco,felicito a quienes tienen Laser Discs,saludos.
Belts do go bad and should be replaced, even gear grease dries up too. Any disc rot on those laser discs? It's not weird to me, a laser disc's size is 12"...just like a vinyl lp record.
Couple of comments and corrections from what I've seen so far -- I'll put these in separate comments so you can decide what you care about. :-) CAV vs. CLV -- This is basically a technical thing regarding the speed of the disc's rotation, that ordinarily wouldn't be worth caring about, but it had repercussions back in the days of analog video. *CAV is "Constant Angular Velocity"* and just means that the disc's rotation is a fixed 1800 RPM, and two video frames (half-frames, actually -- the odd and even interlaced fields) are recorded in each revolution of the disc. You'll actually see this if you look at a CAV disc, as they have fairly pronounced patterns formed by the frame blanking interval that look like tiny wedges on opposite sides (rotationally, not side A vs. side B) of the disc. CLV disc surfaces look totally random, like a CD or DVD. This recording method means that video frames in the center of the disc are actually packed more densely than those on the outer edge of the disc, so it's kind of a wasteful way to use the physical space. But, the reason they're lauded as technically superior is that, as the laser scans each track, some signal bleed is inevitable from the adjacent tracks, and having the exact same relative part of the next and previous frames on adjacent tracks minimizes the visual effect of this. You also get, for free basically, a nice still image, because instead of actually pausing playback, you can just keep the laser on one track and play the same frame over and over. Or, instead of playing tracks sequentially, you can skip every other one, and get a nice 2x playback speed. And so on. *CLV is "Constant Linear Velocity,"* which means the disc's rotational speed varies throughout playback to keep the _linear_ speed (the speed at which a certain amount of disc surface passes over the laser) the same regardless of where along the radius of the disc the laser is pointing. At the beginning of a disc, at 1800 RPM, about 2800 cm of disc pass over the laser every second. In CLV mode, the RPM decreases so that even though there's more physical _disc_ at the outside edge, it still passes over the laser at 2800 cm/sec., and the density of recorded data is the same -- packed just as densely, hence, more capacity. The downside is that, when adjacent tracks bleed into the current one, you're combining non-correlated parts of the image, and even getting ghosts of sync pulses and other things that aren't meant to be visible. This causes some visible distortion and noise, the degree of which depends on the amount of bleed. Some players and discs have more, some less, and if it's bad, it can often be addressed by calibrating the optical pickup mechanism, if your player has configurable adjustments and you have a service manual to tell you where they are. You also lose that still-frame pause feature, since a frame of video may be anywhere in a concentric circle on the track, and even split across this and the previous/next track. To get around that, some players would have a bit of digital memory that would snapshot the screen from the last frame and hold that instead of continuously playing whatever was under/over the laser as the disc turned. That was a fancy trick in the 80s and early 90s though, when memory and digital conversion and all that were way more expensive, so not all players could do it. So, recap: CAV -- disc spins at constant speed, but the amount of physical disc passing over the laser per rotation changes during playback. 2 interlaced half-frames per revolution. Allows still-frame pause and slow-mo / fast-forward playback. Less visible bleed from adjacent tracks, but only 30 min capacity per side. CLV -- disc spins at decreasing speed, keeping the linear speed of physical medium over the laser the same across the disc. Frames are spread out to take whatever space they need, depending on what radius they're recorded at, so no "trick-play" features. Bleed from adjacent tracks can cause cross-talk noise. But, a little under an hour of capacity per side.
About aspect ratio: All Laserdiscs are 4:3. "Widescreen" versions capture a wide picture and present it in a square box with black matting on the top and bottom. If you stretch the full image to a wide display, you end up stretching that wide picture wider than it should be, and you don't remove the bars. The correct solution is to chop off the black bars on top and bottom, since they don't contain any visual information you care about, and stretch the remaining middle portion of the image to the sides of a wide display. Most modern-ish TVs don't do a good job of explaining what they're actually doing to an image. So, it may be called "Zoom" or "Wide" or "Cinema" mode or who-knows-what. I suppose if you're LG, Samsung, etc., you can't expect the lay-person to understand the subtleties of aspect-ratio conversion, so the answer, apparently, is to obfuscate what menu options do so as to make it impossible for _anyone_ to know what they're doing, that way we're all equal. ;-) Point being, the image coming from the player should be treated as 4:3, and then you can crop the picture and expand it to fill the screen. There's usually a way to do that on most wide TVs, but the exact steps to do it correctly vary considerably. P.S.: Setting the TV to expect a wide image would only work if the LD was in "anamorphic" widescreen, which pre-squishes the image horizontally so it can be stretched back to normal aspect by the display. I don't think anyone was doing that in the LD days, because wide TVs weren't really a thing back then. That's more of a DVD concept. Someone else recommended sticking with Composite over S-Video output. It's true that the video signal on the disc is composite, so there's no inherent advantage to using S-Video outputs. Basically, if you use the S-Video output, the image is being filtered by the player to separate the brightness (luma) and color (chroma) signals. If you use Composite, then the TV does this. Which looks better depends on which has the better signal processing filter. Try both and see if you can tell a difference, and if you can, use the one you like better. :-) There's no right answer in this case -- it'll depend on every player / TV combination.
About the knobs and buttons: This player was obviously geared for Karaoke use. During that latter days of LD, it hadn't quite taken the world by storm, but Karaoke joints were snatching up LD players, because it was about the only random-access video media available to consumers. This, of course, allowed skipping to the "chapter" of whatever song you wanted, without having to wind a tape to the right time code. And since Karaoke is (was?) a huge thing in Asian cultures, where a lot of the manufacturers of 80s/90s electronics were, Karaoke-friendly features got added to a lot of players to make them more appealing to that market. The buttons on the left (flat, normal, sharp) would shift the pitch up and down to make it easier to sing along with, if the normal playback speed put the key a little out of your vocal range. The "music" / "theater" / "stage" buttons are different vocal effects (reverb and echo in different room sizes), with a knob to adjust the mic volume, mic-to-LD volume balance, and effects level. None of that will matter to you unless you like to sing along with your movies. The most important feature of an LD player today is that it still works. :-)
CAV basically means progressive scan, each frame is separate. No idea what it actually stands for. You're lucky to find a new player like that. It can be quite a challenge just to find one with the original remote. It's a fun hobby and I have found that while laserdiscs may not be technically on the same level of HD formats, that they someone just look better sometimes. That's probably down to coming from the original masters rather than versions that have been remastered multiple times over the years.
CAV actually stands for Constant Angular Velocity and CLV stands for Constant Linear Velocity. Laser Disc was the most glamourous consumer AV technology to date, IMHO. Best regards from a COVID-19 terrified Brazil.
I just bought the 1993 collectors release of the original theatrical versions of the Star Wars Original Trilogy. Now to find a Laserdisc player.
Beautiful!😮
Had mine in 1996, still my favourite format ever.
Thank you for posting this.
Congrats on getting your first player! Enjoy the money pit! :P
Always check each disc for cracks before you load it into the player. The discs spin at a very high RPM and cracked discs can explode, destroying the disc and the player.
As others said, set your television to 4x3 mode and use the Zoom to have widescreen films touch both sides of the television. Composite is the best connection for LaserDisc players, despite some having S-Video. The discs were mastered with that color space in mind, and composite properly displays it.
To avoid using the A->B auto turn function, simply push the Side A button on the remote or the player. It will only play side A, and you will need to manually flip the disc to access the other side.
Just as a note, Japanese discs are mastered at a different IRE level, so they will appear to have very crushed blacks on non NTSC-J televisions.
Thank you for sharing!
In 35 years of using laser disc I've never had a disc explode in the player.. Where u got that from I'll never know..
I have gotten into Laserdisc a little over a year now, and my collection keeps growing. One of the coolest purchases I ever made.
Nice score! Looks practically new. Panasonic players don't show up that much as Pioneer was the dominant company. All the microphone inputs and "magic voice" buttons are for karaoke! Many LD players were used for that as before DVD it was the easiest way to serve multiple music videos and it supported a digital subtitle track, so you could sing along to the words.
One thing to keep in mind is that all laserdiscs are 4:3 aspect ratio, as they expect an old school CRT tube television. On your LCD screen, make sure you set it to 4:3 mode - and you can play with your tv Zoom buttons too for letterbox films - or your picture will be horizontally stretched (everyone gets fat heads).
A/B side flip is still mental to me how it works, the whole laser assembly does a little flip inside to play the underside of the disc.
CAV = Constant angular velocity, those discs will have slightly better picture quality, 30 minutes per side and when you pause you get a still frame.
CLV = Constant linear velocity, slightly less video quality (not much) but 60 minutes per side. On most players this also means when you pause, as you saw, you don't see a still frame. The very last high end players got around this problem though.
Enjoy your machine!
A lot of the laserdiscs i have say they are presented in their original aspect ration. independence day say's 2.35:1. thanks for the other info!
@@britneyspaulding oh yes they will be letterbox, but they are not 16:9 enhanced for modern widescreen television. So you need to set the tv to 4:3 then use the zoom. You'll see the difference!
@@ExplosiveAction ok, thanks for the heads up on that
@@ExplosiveAction You don't need to set the TV to 4:3. You should set it to original aspect ratio and then it will display both 16:9 and 4:3 correctly without manually changing it every time.
CAV means every frame is a full ring on the disc (hence the name), meaning that pausing and fast forwarding on thise discs is remarkably smooth, even for today
Nice job 👍and such a bargain player too!👌I love my Laserdiscs. I watch all my favourite old horror and "b movies" on ld because the format has that genuine retro feel.
Лазарь Диски Видео 📹 начались выпускать с 1978 Года !❤
"That's a really big CD" said a neighbour's kid.
Interesting vid.
Cheers lass.
@LiliMarco1 pardon?
@LiliMarco1 When Brit shows the laser disk, my neighbours kid was watching and she said "Wow that's a big CD". She had never seen a laser disk before and thought it was a giant CD.
@LiliMarco1 aye, I explained very thing.
Amazing!!!
Love it. I'm looking for one myself. I'm also gonna get me a VCR machine real soon, for a bit of nostalgia.
Fantastic that is fantastic 👏 have fun with it
I recently got Pioneer laserdisc player. I liked the look of Panasonics more but could not find the ones with optical output.
Hey Britney, just subbed to your channel. Thanks for helping me out with all the eBay stuff. You’re awesome.
Thanks, hope you enjoy the content, i certainly enjoy yours :)
Nice pick up, Panasonic is a nice brand for LD players. Might want to check the zoom settings on that TV so the image isn't stretched. Got a sub here always good to see LD content ;).
My very first time I seen one of these was when I was in school & in class we watched the outsiders. I've always wanted one of these & 24 yrs later I finally scored one on a app called letgo now it's called OfferUp but anyways. One day I was looking on there & by surprise I came across one it was a pioneer CLD-D704 player & 55 movie's that came with it & the seller was only wanting $30 for it all. Needless to say I finally became a proud owner of a very good laserdisc player. The best part of it all the seller even personally delivered it to me the same day. It looked & played like new with no issues other than I had to replace the loading belt but other than that it works great & I've had for a lil over 3yrs now & no issues with it.... Like you said have fun trying to find one for a good price. These things are expensive even the ones that don't work are still pretty expensive especially the one I have that thing goes for like $300 to $600 on ebay. Crazy what sum don't realize what they have. So ya it was a pretty awesome find. I'm also a vintage electronics nerd...... Nice find!!!!!!
it seems you like old technology,
i like it too,
you have good taste
cheers !!
Neat. I think they put so much more effort into player and remote control functions back then than they do with today's disc players.
Nice player wish I had one.
In a case of coincidence, I happened to purchase a Panasonic Laserdisc player several years ago. It was a LX-101, and I found it in a Charity Shop here in Australia. It only cost $60AU. And it works great! I also happen to have copies of T2 Special Edition, and Toy Story on Laserdisc like you do.
Nice! I recently picked up a Panasonic LX-V850. Perfect condition. Stunning. No remote though. Paid $170 AUD. Thought that was a decent deal.
I use an old Logitech Harmony Remote which is good enough
Yes that is a clean nice looking unit. 👌 I just picked up a panasonic lx-900 the jog wheel is missing but he never really used it and the unit looks clean like yours. I can find a jog wheel and I already ordered a remote and a lot of LD's to add to the collection..... Aye have fun watching on your new machine ("
Cool that you finally got an laserdisc, I've been looking for one for years.
I have about 70 LDs that I would like to sell for a low price. I have a Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park LD as well. All in excellent condition.
Ebay got a ton of them
@@CheezyDewitt how much and do you have a list
Great Score !!!!! .... I Still Collect Laser Discs Also in 2021 !!!!!
You're lucky,all the rest we only watch.
If you're weird that I'm weird haha.. I love laser disc as well.. It's the best format.. Period.. So much fun and tactile.. Enjoy your new player... 👍👍
Quirky would be the correct term ;)
Oh hell yeah! Laserdisc is my favourite disc format of all time, I have a Sony laserdisc karaoke player that has a feature to automatically change sides, lucky for me I didn’t pay $400 AUD for my player, maybe $250? It was a while ago, and of course I’ve got a collection of movies as well over time all from eBay, what helped boost my collection I bought a couple large bulk lots from an Aussie seller $70 each all Japanese imports, he was making some space selling off spares making room for more Japanese laserdiscs he ordered, I just wish the first Harry Potter movie was released on laserdisc that thing would be worth a fortune now I reckon, anyway thank you for your laserdisc video, one day I should make a video too.
very cool I got a pioneer unit like new as well but need to figure how to hook it up to my smart TV any ideas,thanks Graham
If you unplug your player after each use, it might last much much longer than a machine always on the mains. It's a guess and it's what I do.
Absolute Bargain, bet it's got a good audio take off as well and you can play dvd's cd's. Really nice piece of kit. Pleased for you.
I love LaserDisc!
quite good picture, better than vhs i think
Wow Awesomeness you got a great deal 👍 Where are U getting your LD's from and Nice Collection 😀
Hell yeah!
Come join us at LaserDisc Forever! on Facebook, if that's not the FB group you're talking about in this vid.
In short CAV: one rotation of the disc is 1 frame and the discs width is split up up into frames, it's accurate but can only hold 30 minutes on each side.
CLV: the frames are in one continuous track from the inside to the outside, while you lose the frame by frame viewing (although some players have a digital framebuffer), you will have 55 minutes on each side.
Would have been cool to see it on a larger TV screen the laser disc itself was larger than the TV . I'm glad I never got into laser disc, only VHS I think the video quality is probably comparable to DVD quality and takes up alot of space and probably very expensive for the time . Cool to see though since I never had a laser disc.
Maybe a record player next week…haha.. or a Walkman
Damned this is a big boy !
Laserdisc players are easily broken during shipping. Those looking for one should seek out a local seller if possible.
Laserdisc Pink Floyd , Link
CAV means every frame is recorded frame by frame. It means stills look way better, and full Control showing a specific frame
Ok now i remember. Ordinary laser disc is called CLV and offers No still image when pausing. The more expensive CAV versions offered pefectly still images, and search by frame number.
Its an analog signal. The image quality is best optimized for a CRT Television.
Woao! I'll wish have one, Im from Peru I hope findit some day
Hola,tambien soy de Perú,siempre quise uno pero los precios aun estan muy altos,me conformo con mis Beta,VHS que aun tengo operativos asi como ;DVD;Blu Ray,USB y ahora un Ultra HD que he comprado hace poco,felicito a quienes tienen Laser Discs,saludos.
@@maxwelltlmm4583 Si pues yo recien q ahora tengo mi profesion empecé a comprar lo q de niño no pudw
@@maxwelltlmm4583 Peru jajajajaja buuuuuuuu
Belts do go bad and should be replaced, even gear grease dries up too. Any disc rot on those laser discs? It's not weird to me, a laser disc's size is 12"...just like a vinyl lp record.
Also CAV stands for Constant Angular Velocity, CLV stands for Constant Linear Velocity.
I finally got a laserdisc player on the February of 2021 on eBay
I have about 70 LDs that I would like to sell for a low price. I have a Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park LD as well. All in excellent condition.
i don't collect laser discs, i just buy certain title's that i like, specifically Disney is what i'm after atm
Do you still have these ?
Couple of comments and corrections from what I've seen so far -- I'll put these in separate comments so you can decide what you care about. :-)
CAV vs. CLV -- This is basically a technical thing regarding the speed of the disc's rotation, that ordinarily wouldn't be worth caring about, but it had repercussions back in the days of analog video.
*CAV is "Constant Angular Velocity"* and just means that the disc's rotation is a fixed 1800 RPM, and two video frames (half-frames, actually -- the odd and even interlaced fields) are recorded in each revolution of the disc. You'll actually see this if you look at a CAV disc, as they have fairly pronounced patterns formed by the frame blanking interval that look like tiny wedges on opposite sides (rotationally, not side A vs. side B) of the disc. CLV disc surfaces look totally random, like a CD or DVD.
This recording method means that video frames in the center of the disc are actually packed more densely than those on the outer edge of the disc, so it's kind of a wasteful way to use the physical space. But, the reason they're lauded as technically superior is that, as the laser scans each track, some signal bleed is inevitable from the adjacent tracks, and having the exact same relative part of the next and previous frames on adjacent tracks minimizes the visual effect of this.
You also get, for free basically, a nice still image, because instead of actually pausing playback, you can just keep the laser on one track and play the same frame over and over. Or, instead of playing tracks sequentially, you can skip every other one, and get a nice 2x playback speed. And so on.
*CLV is "Constant Linear Velocity,"* which means the disc's rotational speed varies throughout playback to keep the _linear_ speed (the speed at which a certain amount of disc surface passes over the laser) the same regardless of where along the radius of the disc the laser is pointing.
At the beginning of a disc, at 1800 RPM, about 2800 cm of disc pass over the laser every second. In CLV mode, the RPM decreases so that even though there's more physical _disc_ at the outside edge, it still passes over the laser at 2800 cm/sec., and the density of recorded data is the same -- packed just as densely, hence, more capacity.
The downside is that, when adjacent tracks bleed into the current one, you're combining non-correlated parts of the image, and even getting ghosts of sync pulses and other things that aren't meant to be visible. This causes some visible distortion and noise, the degree of which depends on the amount of bleed. Some players and discs have more, some less, and if it's bad, it can often be addressed by calibrating the optical pickup mechanism, if your player has configurable adjustments and you have a service manual to tell you where they are.
You also lose that still-frame pause feature, since a frame of video may be anywhere in a concentric circle on the track, and even split across this and the previous/next track. To get around that, some players would have a bit of digital memory that would snapshot the screen from the last frame and hold that instead of continuously playing whatever was under/over the laser as the disc turned. That was a fancy trick in the 80s and early 90s though, when memory and digital conversion and all that were way more expensive, so not all players could do it.
So, recap:
CAV -- disc spins at constant speed, but the amount of physical disc passing over the laser per rotation changes during playback. 2 interlaced half-frames per revolution. Allows still-frame pause and slow-mo / fast-forward playback. Less visible bleed from adjacent tracks, but only 30 min capacity per side.
CLV -- disc spins at decreasing speed, keeping the linear speed of physical medium over the laser the same across the disc. Frames are spread out to take whatever space they need, depending on what radius they're recorded at, so no "trick-play" features. Bleed from adjacent tracks can cause cross-talk noise. But, a little under an hour of capacity per side.
About aspect ratio:
All Laserdiscs are 4:3. "Widescreen" versions capture a wide picture and present it in a square box with black matting on the top and bottom. If you stretch the full image to a wide display, you end up stretching that wide picture wider than it should be, and you don't remove the bars.
The correct solution is to chop off the black bars on top and bottom, since they don't contain any visual information you care about, and stretch the remaining middle portion of the image to the sides of a wide display.
Most modern-ish TVs don't do a good job of explaining what they're actually doing to an image. So, it may be called "Zoom" or "Wide" or "Cinema" mode or who-knows-what. I suppose if you're LG, Samsung, etc., you can't expect the lay-person to understand the subtleties of aspect-ratio conversion, so the answer, apparently, is to obfuscate what menu options do so as to make it impossible for _anyone_ to know what they're doing, that way we're all equal. ;-)
Point being, the image coming from the player should be treated as 4:3, and then you can crop the picture and expand it to fill the screen. There's usually a way to do that on most wide TVs, but the exact steps to do it correctly vary considerably.
P.S.: Setting the TV to expect a wide image would only work if the LD was in "anamorphic" widescreen, which pre-squishes the image horizontally so it can be stretched back to normal aspect by the display. I don't think anyone was doing that in the LD days, because wide TVs weren't really a thing back then. That's more of a DVD concept.
Someone else recommended sticking with Composite over S-Video output. It's true that the video signal on the disc is composite, so there's no inherent advantage to using S-Video outputs.
Basically, if you use the S-Video output, the image is being filtered by the player to separate the brightness (luma) and color (chroma) signals. If you use Composite, then the TV does this. Which looks better depends on which has the better signal processing filter.
Try both and see if you can tell a difference, and if you can, use the one you like better. :-) There's no right answer in this case -- it'll depend on every player / TV combination.
About the knobs and buttons:
This player was obviously geared for Karaoke use. During that latter days of LD, it hadn't quite taken the world by storm, but Karaoke joints were snatching up LD players, because it was about the only random-access video media available to consumers. This, of course, allowed skipping to the "chapter" of whatever song you wanted, without having to wind a tape to the right time code. And since Karaoke is (was?) a huge thing in Asian cultures, where a lot of the manufacturers of 80s/90s electronics were, Karaoke-friendly features got added to a lot of players to make them more appealing to that market.
The buttons on the left (flat, normal, sharp) would shift the pitch up and down to make it easier to sing along with, if the normal playback speed put the key a little out of your vocal range. The "music" / "theater" / "stage" buttons are different vocal effects (reverb and echo in different room sizes), with a knob to adjust the mic volume, mic-to-LD volume balance, and effects level. None of that will matter to you unless you like to sing along with your movies.
The most important feature of an LD player today is that it still works. :-)
You lucked out with that price.
Wait, so that price is not bad? I mean I know nothing of Laserdiscs and on my local FB marketplace , there's one for 150 bucks :)
Yep digital really killed all
CAV basically means progressive scan, each frame is separate. No idea what it actually stands for. You're lucky to find a new player like that. It can be quite a challenge just to find one with the original remote. It's a fun hobby and I have found that while laserdiscs may not be technically on the same level of HD formats, that they someone just look better sometimes. That's probably down to coming from the original masters rather than versions that have been remastered multiple times over the years.
CAV actually stands for Constant Angular Velocity and CLV stands for Constant Linear Velocity.
Laser Disc was the most glamourous consumer AV technology to date, IMHO.
Best regards from a COVID-19 terrified Brazil.
If you checked with Wikipedia before posting you could give the correct answer.
5:22 what movie is this?
Laserdisc player Harga Rp.1.2 JT di makro pasar rebo Jakarta timur
better u check this with big TV or DISPLAY
Welcome to Laserdisc - 26 years for me and it still never gets old. Fix your aspect ratio though as your picture is squashed 😁