Cld-99s are nice,good players.Ever thought bout going for a X-9 or a Sony Muse?X models are supposed to read rotted disc extremely well.
I have 2 older players for arcade cab kit.I keep one here and one at my friends place.LDV 2200 here,and a LDV 4200 at my friends place.Both can be used fine for arcade kits.The Sony Lasermax players were pretty sturdy US wise,but not as good as the Pioneers.Sony always had a problem here or there,and couldnt make a ld movie worth a flip either in their US plant.Too much rotted disc by them.Really sucks.I have a CLD-D504,2 CLD-D301s,Sony MDP-605 but needs repair,has motor problem,CLD-V2800,LD-V6000A which reads disco vision fine,a LDV2200,LDV4200,A Panasonic LX-120,a Panasonic LX-200.I keep all of the players other then the MDP-605 and the LDV4200 here at my home.I hade a wonderful MDP-333 player,which btw the UK version of that player is supposed to be really nice too,but I chose to sell it,as it had problems locking down on Mitsubishi made disc,because of their smooth disc labels they used.There was a fix for it,but I dont like putting extra stickers on my disc labels.I had well over 150 disc years back,but Sony rotters and useless stuff I didnt want to keep made me downsize.I wont keep just anything on LD.It has to warrent a reason for being kept,by either being only on LD or VHS,have somethng the dvd version doesnt have,or just be a movie I really like.I dont like drama,comedy,or children movies.I only collect action with real actors,horror,sci-fi,anime,and dark comedy.I allow nothing else into my collection.That means no True Lies,Last Action Heros,Leathel Weapons,Lion Kings,Black Sheeps,or 3 Ninjas lds.I have alot of box sets too,Criterian stuff.Imports that you cant get here.Im about the only person I know of in the US with Outlanders anime imported on LD that is regestered on LDDB.And oddly I have 2 region pressings of Aliens Special Edition Boxset.I have a pressed in Japan,and Pressed in USA set.Slight differences,like mint marks,but both have the exact same speckle areas in the exact same parts fo the LDs,and I dont attribute this to rot like others may think.I am thinking more along the lines of Mitsubishi using scratched glass masters.It did happen now and then.I need to start listing stuff on th eLDDB more,but I dont have the time,with kid sand all,going from disc to disc,listing mint mark after mint mark,gets old.I used to want a Elite,but seeing it made no real difference on stuff liek Hardwares playback quality noise wise made me not want one anymore.There is a pretty good amount of ld collecters in Ark.You have to look to find them,but they are here.usually movie store workers and so on.A few I have talked to said to forget using aElite,stick to what I have,get a line doubler,and be happy.Considering a good line doubler has a way better comb filter then a Elite-97-99 I will prob end up doing that instead.Do you have any pics you can post of your Elite player going at it?Id liek to see some to see the quality on a poorly mastered LD,to see how it improves it.Most collecters here are like me,very strict,and dont keep average fliks,so nothing larger then 200 lds max,pretty much all good mastered stuff.
