If any of you here haven't watched this with the closed captioning on, I highly recommend it. I love the descriptions he put in for the sounds, etc., that it makes as it's searching/playing discs, lmao!
I need to use subtitles for accessibility, so the fact Alec puts so much effort in is a main reason I started watching his channel. I didn't know what a CED was when I started watching, and I didn't care, but the fact I could understand the jokes was brilliant.
@@oxybrightdark8765 It really is awesome that he takes the time to actually put subtitles in, instead of letting UA-cam do their automated subtitle thing. Although, some of the automated subtitles can be quite amusing, especially on videos where the person talking is mumbling a little, lol!
@@wendyg1059 I know, right? Once, when I was watching a cooking show, the automatic captions said to "coat the turkey in Meredith". 🤣 Edit: Aww... thanks for the like!
So cool that you took the time to do accurate closed captioning. That must have taken forever but I'm sure it's greatly appreciated by those of us that are hard of hearing.
I mean it's theorhetically possible, but at the same time the amount of work just isnt worth saving you a few seconds to change games. would be really cool to see though
That's awesome I always thought the Wii was a laserdisk in highschool and thought game cube games were bigger DVDs Cruz I'd stretch the aspect of image too look like 16x9
The Comically Large Spoon of discs compared to the Regular Spoon of a standard sized CD. ...And I guess those miniature ones like they used in the Gamecube are like teaspoons.
I love how comically large Laser Discs are. When I was a kid, I heard of them, but never saw one. I thought it was another word for "DVD." Same thing with HD DVD.
You and a whole lot of other people. Just recently introduced a friend to LaserDisc, who, like you, also thought the word laserdisc was just some sort of generic word to describe optical discs, that require laser to get the information on a disc. When he first saw that 12" shiny disc, his eyes widened. "Holy crap, that's like a DVD on steroids!" 😂
That split rack idea is fascinating. I love seeing these sort of technological implementations of simple solutions to consumer needs. And the individual who came up with it is probably forgotten to the sands of time.
For a minute when I looked at the thumbnail, I thought techmoan made a new video.. lol. Thank you for your work on all the awesome subjects and mechinecs you have covered.
Definitely an interesting choice. I think if I were engineering it, I would have tried to find a way to swing the laser sled carriage around under the tray. There's a bit of complexity in that the spindle motor would have to move from dead center (for the LD) to mid-perimeter for the CDs, and the carriage would have to fit the entire length of an LD and still have room to turn. But I think that could still work, assuming they're even using the same spindle and carriage anyway.
great improvement to the first video! i like how you describe first what is going to happen and then just let the sound take over, your naration improved a lot too! Thank you for doing these!
It's kind of sad to realize this amazing engineering is not in our homes anymore. And maybe manufacturers are not what they used to be because they don't have to face these kinds of challenges today. For a team to come up with something like what's seen in this video it would need more than just knowledge, skills or even experience.
I had a Pioneer 18 disc changer (3 x 6 disc cart) back in the day. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Now I can carry my entire music collection on a micro SD card the size of my thumbnail and I don't even think twice about it.
It may sound funny but I miss hearing the sounds of audio & video gear of the past. We took it for granted back then but there was always something neat about the sound of a VCR loading a tape, a CD changer changing discs or a tape deck auto reversing. In particular I always loved the sound the Pioneer magazine style 6 disc CD changer made when it changed discs. So satisfying!
Your comment actually made me warm up to these videos a bit, I dont put out negative comments cause i know the accessibility is a good thing and people like this sorta content but the almost...ASMR? Feel of the videos were a bit hard on my attention span. Your point was something I didn't think about and can actually appreciate now aswell.
Wow such an amazing over engineered product. Lovely thing to own - but you know when (not if) it fails there are so many things to go wrong and be very difficult to fix - not to mention there’s a few (significant understatement) caps that are prone to leaking that will need replacement- definitely a project for those used to these kind of repairs. Me excluded sadly. Thanks for sharing.
Im a big fan of the faint chirpy noise that you hear from some disc drives as they spin up. Very specific source of joy but that is what happens to work.
Chirpy, that's a good way to describe it. I like them as well and always wondered what exactly produces it. Is it the laser, is it a recalibration, is it something spooling up, how is the noise created in the process etc., it always puzzled me as it is nothing like the clunks and whirrs that the CD players also produce.
@@Games_and_Music I'm not 100% sure either. It's some combination of the laser lens focusing electromagnetically, and the worm drive settling on the exact location. Very unique, and chirpy is precisely the term for it.
My friends have a 5 disk DVD player like this weirdly enough. Although the whole tray itself rotated. I can say after many years, they never really had a use for the disk changing capability. We would just throw in the movie we wanted
I had a Pioneer LD player, Then this Pioneer LD and CD changer, then a Sony 200 disc CD player and a Pioneer LD and DVD player. Now, I have thousands of movies, TV shows, and songs in 24 terabytes' worth of hard drives controlled by a Plex media server. I am finally happy with my media handling system.
Pioneer really is impressive with what they did with their LaserDisc players. I have a CLD-79 with the dual-side feature but that thing is even more impressive.
I would suggest in future series perhaps adding some text to the screen stating the time frame of the technology being shown, maybe even the model number and a description of the device. Myself being manufactured during the Nixon administration have experienced the way technology has changed so much over the decades, from 8 tracks, records, and AM only radios for music, the first generation home VCR's (the remote had a cord), and even having the first home video game console the Magnavox Odyssey. Reliving the sights and sounds from technology from my past is quite entertaining for myself, younger generations would have little to no idea what era these machines are from, and perhaps would have interest knowing a little more about what they are seeing and hearing. These two disc changers i would guess are from the early to mid 1990's.
Yet another commenter here to thank you for the captions with detailed descriptions of the noises. It's like listening to Evan Doorbell guide you through the steps of a phone call as it moves over carriers to different tandems on its way to the final connection.
I'm a grey beard and cinephile. I was an early Laserdisc adopter and owned several Pioneer Laserdisc players (but not the CLD-M301). I still have one; although I haven't powered it up in over five years. Thanks for the insight into the internals of these machines.
I dont really know why i'm watching this, but this stuff is amazing :D dicovered your videos a few months ago ( also the main channel) and I'm fascinated by that stuff, keep up the nice work :D
Thank you for using the open/close button rather than pushing the tray closed like some people do. I remember when my friend shoved my first cd rom tray closed instead of using the button. I almost came unglued.
I feel ya, but they.. uh.. do have microswitches in them for that very reason. :-) Maybe it was a design intention, or just an acknowledgement that it was going to happen anyway, so may as well cater to it. There are even a few machines that don't give you access to the button, so your only option is to push the drawer closed. ugh.. seems barbarian.
@@nickwallette6201 yeah, eventually those plastic gears seem to grind a bit. It might be my imagination, but if i remember correctly it happened more to my friends who were always pushing the tray closed, eventually they ended up with drives that operated more like laptop (pc) drives.
Seeing a UA-cam video of a LaserDisc player takes me back to my childhood of the 1990s. In 3rd or 4th grade around 1997 to '98, of course they still had the D.A.R.E. program, and the presentation was on LaserDisc. Now a 33 yr old man with a little bit of gray hair 😂 to this day I'll never forget how my eyes opened up and my jaw dropped while watching my teacher slide the disk out of it's sleeve and inserting it into the player.
Like the CC's on this one very descriptive...I had one of these players in the UK ..my granddad loved laser discs and he gave me the player .. I personally only ever used it for cd's...the sounds bring back memories of a bygone time... haven't used a physical disc of any kind for easily over 7 years now.
The sound portions are without voiceover, so it should be easy to just cut the audio for that purpose. A sample pack as eg. a Patreon perk would be interesting though!
I bet that the steel pin in front of the CD player motor is supposed to engage the disk tray to ensure it is aligned properly, and probably the plastic groove it is supposed to slot in is worn out.
Back in the Mid-nineties, a friend bought a LD player. He asked us what movie he should buy first, I campaigned and convinced him to buy Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles". It was around this time that the "Criterion Edition" LDs became a big thing, too.
I’m so happy to see you posted this. I’ve had a M403 model that powers on but something internally isn’t allowing it to kick out the tray. And haven’t been able to find any videos of that model or one like it that has the 5 disc CD changer aspect layout, but thanks to you I have now! I’m gonna watch this as soon as I get home from the store & see if this video helps me fix my Laserdisc player! I just might get to finally watch the two LD movies I own. 🤩 *wish me luck!*
The 80´s devices imho had the best aesthetics. And I love the tracking sound of the optical system :) As well as the clutch/drive/gear stuff. I still remember my first Canon Video8 cam, what a wonder of technology!
I can't believe I can hear that CRT through the microphone and my headphones, aw man. I still can't believe we grew up with CRTs all around us whining all high pitched.
Interesting to see what's going on, and both so much better than my Technics CD changer. It just has a single CD sized tray, and to change discs it lifts them off the tray and stores them within the machine. So loading multiple discs is time consuming as after loading each disc you have to wait for it to close the tray, change discs, then open the tray again before you can load the next one.
Is there anything preventing the robot arm from moving a CD from one tray to another? It's obviously not implemented in the control logic but is there any physical reason it couldn't do that?
There is not. The robot arm can spin a full 360° around. Unimpeded by anything. It just remembers that disc 5 has to go back to place 5 before it can pick up the next CD.
I like how multi disc players come off obsessive compulsive when you dont load them. Going through each slot like, "is anything here?....damn, nope.... anything HERE? damn, nope, ANYTHING HERE??? DAMMIT NOPE!.....
It takes a lot of effort for some, which makes the IR reflection check of that Sony all the more clever. It just turns the carousel and does its whole inventory in like three seconds with very little effort. Sony's engineering choices weren't always the most impressive solution, but maybe the most elegant solution.
Used to have a 110 (or there about) multi-disk, Pioneer, I think. I did enjoy the noises it made as it did it thing. Long gone. Also Picked it up once to move it and all the disks did a runner and hid themselves all around the inside of the machine. That was a fun day.
The fact this video (no exaggeration) hurt my ears with the high pitched CRT sounds, just coming from my PHONE, tells me the audio is as close to real life as possible 🤣
Did anyone else have a horizontal style CD changer? My parents still have one that holds, I think, 25 CDs and uses a sort of swing arm to pull discs out of the slot and play them. I'd love to see the inside of one of those.
My old stereo had a system like this. It worked similar to the Sony in this, only it was made more compact because the disks were at an angle. It also lifted the disks to play but I don’t think you could change disks.
With how one of the target audiences for this series is blind people, I can’t help myself from noting things that might be confusing to them, like how he shuffled one of the CDs when he put in five, so it could have sounded like he put in six or seven, instead of five.
My parents have a JVC cd changer. It's similar to a lot of automotive cd changers in that is uses a magazine with 5 trays and at the back of the machine there is a mechanism that grabs the trays with the disc and takes it down to the player section below the magazine. It's pretty dumb in that it picks up every tray and loads it to see if there's a disc present but it's never once gotten jammed in 30 years. There was some really interesting engineering going on back then. Looking back it seems odd that we had stuff like that but it took us another 20 years to make 3D printing something people could do at home
Also remember that computers were WAY less powerful back in the day. Sure, they could've made 3D printers, but computing technology wasn't fast enough to handle operating the thing
@@kadepow11 it was plenty fast enough especially in the late 90s. It was mostly patents and legal crap that held things like 3D printing back for so long
8:35 - I’ve had that misalignment problem on two different players, but with laserdiscs. It eventually connects after five or more tries. (One is a regular Pioneer LD player, but the first was a multi-disc unit like this, but made by Sony. I bought it in…. 1991, I think?)
I had a 5 disc dvd player at one time. It was good and not good at the same time. It had the problem of not being properly designed software. So it could not just go to the disc you wanted. It had to cycle through the discs first until it got to the one you wanted at the time. So it was frustrating, but it was cool as I didn't have to worry about getting up to change discs. It also played CDs but it did not play Laserdiscs. I believe it was a Toshiba but not sure nowadays. My machine was a lot like the Sony machine in design.
7:31 can you fill all the 5 disk positions and then close it while the 6th disk is playing? Would that break the thing and ruing the spinning CD against the new one that would be bellow it?
It would break the CD at the very least. However, the changer knows which disc it is currently holding on to, and will not allow you to access that slot. Therefore, once you stop the machine or change discs, the disc that was playing while the tray was open will always have a free space to be set down upon.
This is the kind of review i want to modern stuff like blu ray players and 4k k want to see the load time k want to here the sounds and see how the menu responds. You should do some modern reviews
If any of you here haven't watched this with the closed captioning on, I highly recommend it. I love the descriptions he put in for the sounds, etc., that it makes as it's searching/playing discs, lmao!
I need to use subtitles for accessibility, so the fact Alec puts so much effort in is a main reason I started watching his channel. I didn't know what a CED was when I started watching, and I didn't care, but the fact I could understand the jokes was brilliant.
@@oxybrightdark8765 It really is awesome that he takes the time to actually put subtitles in, instead of letting UA-cam do their automated subtitle thing. Although, some of the automated subtitles can be quite amusing, especially on videos where the person talking is mumbling a little, lol!
@@wendyg1059 I know, right? Once, when I was watching a cooking show, the automatic captions said to "coat the turkey in Meredith". 🤣
Edit: Aww... thanks for the like!
So glad I saw your comment, I never have the captions on but it was soooo worth it.
Subtitles on this man's videos are always worth having on. There's actual character in them.
I love how even the noises are described in detail in the captions
[disc rapidly slows down]
He does pretty well with that even in the "main stream" videos, which is appreciated.
@@DaedalusYoung the disc slowing down sounds like regenerative braking...
These are the most 90's sounds I've heard all day, year probably, even.
So cool that you took the time to do accurate closed captioning. That must have taken forever but I'm sure it's greatly appreciated by those of us that are hard of hearing.
He might have paid someone to do it for him. 🙂
Can you imagine adapting one of these to a Playstation 4? That would be a real game changer.
I see what you did there 👀😆
GET OUT. haha
I mean it's theorhetically possible, but at the same time the amount of work just isnt worth saving you a few seconds to change games.
would be really cool to see though
Ld size blu-ray
That's awesome I always thought the Wii was a laserdisk in highschool and thought game cube games were bigger DVDs Cruz I'd stretch the aspect of image too look like 16x9
Damn, it surprises me EVERY time how BIG those LDs are!
They’re also extremely heavy.
That motor surely stronger than your regular dvd player😂
The Comically Large Spoon of discs compared to the Regular Spoon of a standard sized CD.
...And I guess those miniature ones like they used in the Gamecube are like teaspoons.
I love how comically large Laser Discs are. When I was a kid, I heard of them, but never saw one. I thought it was another word for "DVD." Same thing with HD DVD.
You and a whole lot of other people.
Just recently introduced a friend to LaserDisc, who, like you, also thought the word laserdisc was just some sort of generic word to describe optical discs, that require laser to get the information on a disc.
When he first saw that 12" shiny disc, his eyes widened. "Holy crap, that's like a DVD on steroids!" 😂
ever seen a big black giant 8 inch floppy
diskette?
they're hilarious
@@Muonium1 I see a big black giant 8 inch floppy every time I shower m8
it's stuck behind the cabinet and I can't be bothered to get it out
Just tell people "it's like a 78 LP record but with a movie on it."
"I wonder which CD he's going to use, maybe it will be chosen to escape the wrath of Content ID?"
Raffi's Bananaphone:
That split rack idea is fascinating. I love seeing these sort of technological implementations of simple solutions to consumer needs. And the individual who came up with it is probably forgotten to the sands of time.
For a minute when I looked at the thumbnail, I thought techmoan made a new video.. lol.
Thank you for your work on all the awesome subjects and mechinecs you have covered.
That CD pickup arm for the Pioneer... just... wow... it just wakes some emotions in me I never knew I had...
Definitely an interesting choice. I think if I were engineering it, I would have tried to find a way to swing the laser sled carriage around under the tray. There's a bit of complexity in that the spindle motor would have to move from dead center (for the LD) to mid-perimeter for the CDs, and the carriage would have to fit the entire length of an LD and still have room to turn. But I think that could still work, assuming they're even using the same spindle and carriage anyway.
great improvement to the first video! i like how you describe first what is going to happen and then just let the sound take over, your naration improved a lot too! Thank you for doing these!
i love how precisely described are the sounds in the subtitles
It's kind of sad to realize this amazing engineering is not in our homes anymore. And maybe manufacturers are not what they used to be because they don't have to face these kinds of challenges today. For a team to come up with something like what's seen in this video it would need more than just knowledge, skills or even experience.
The fact that "Poodle Hat" is one of the dedicated chosen discs is very important to me.
I agree. The second I saw it, I starting laughing immediately.
It's hard to imagine this was cutting-edge technology at some point, and I'm 60 years old!
I had a Pioneer 18 disc changer (3 x 6 disc cart) back in the day. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Now I can carry my entire music collection on a micro SD card the size of my thumbnail and I don't even think twice about it.
I had a Pioneer 100 disc CD changer that I almost filled at the height of my collecting days.
It may sound funny but I miss hearing the sounds of audio & video gear of the past. We took it for granted back then but there was always something neat about the sound of a VCR loading a tape, a CD changer changing discs or a tape deck auto reversing. In particular I always loved the sound the Pioneer magazine style 6 disc CD changer made when it changed discs. So satisfying!
Your comment actually made me warm up to these videos a bit, I dont put out negative comments cause i know the accessibility is a good thing and people like this sorta content but the almost...ASMR? Feel of the videos were a bit hard on my attention span.
Your point was something I didn't think about and can actually appreciate now aswell.
Wow such an amazing over engineered product. Lovely thing to own - but you know when (not if) it fails there are so many things to go wrong and be very difficult to fix - not to mention there’s a few (significant understatement) caps that are prone to leaking that will need replacement- definitely a project for those used to these kind of repairs. Me excluded sadly. Thanks for sharing.
Im a big fan of the faint chirpy noise that you hear from some disc drives as they spin up. Very specific source of joy but that is what happens to work.
Chirpy, that's a good way to describe it.
I like them as well and always wondered what exactly produces it.
Is it the laser, is it a recalibration, is it something spooling up, how is the noise created in the process etc., it always puzzled me as it is nothing like the clunks and whirrs that the CD players also produce.
@@Games_and_Music I'm not 100% sure either. It's some combination of the laser lens focusing electromagnetically, and the worm drive settling on the exact location. Very unique, and chirpy is precisely the term for it.
My friends have a 5 disk DVD player like this weirdly enough. Although the whole tray itself rotated. I can say after many years, they never really had a use for the disk changing capability. We would just throw in the movie we wanted
I had a Pioneer LD player, Then this Pioneer LD and CD changer, then a Sony 200 disc CD player and a Pioneer LD and DVD player. Now, I have thousands of movies, TV shows, and songs in 24 terabytes' worth of hard drives controlled by a Plex media server. I am finally happy with my media handling system.
You put so much detail in the closed captioning, I'm impressed!
Thank you so much for making these Sights & Sounds videos.
I have this exact LD player. Love all the sounds it makes.
Pioneer really is impressive with what they did with their LaserDisc players. I have a CLD-79 with the dual-side feature but that thing is even more impressive.
I would suggest in future series perhaps adding some text to the screen stating the time frame of the technology being shown, maybe even the model number and a description of the device. Myself being manufactured during the Nixon administration have experienced the way technology has changed so much over the decades, from 8 tracks, records, and AM only radios for music, the first generation home VCR's (the remote had a cord), and even having the first home video game console the Magnavox Odyssey. Reliving the sights and sounds from technology from my past is quite entertaining for myself, younger generations would have little to no idea what era these machines are from, and perhaps would have interest knowing a little more about what they are seeing and hearing. These two disc changers i would guess are from the early to mid 1990's.
Yet another commenter here to thank you for the captions with detailed descriptions of the noises. It's like listening to Evan Doorbell guide you through the steps of a phone call as it moves over carriers to different tandems on its way to the final connection.
I'm a grey beard and cinephile. I was an early Laserdisc adopter and owned several Pioneer Laserdisc players (but not the CLD-M301). I still have one; although I haven't powered it up in over five years. Thanks for the insight into the internals of these machines.
I love my DVL-700. Pioneer used to make such great equipment!
Machines like that are complicated mechanical nightmares just waiting to break or jam.
This is the only ASMR that does something for me.
I dont really know why i'm watching this, but this stuff is amazing :D dicovered your videos a few months ago ( also the main channel) and I'm fascinated by that stuff, keep up the nice work :D
Thank you for using the open/close button rather than pushing the tray closed like some people do. I remember when my friend shoved my first cd rom tray closed instead of using the button. I almost came unglued.
I feel ya, but they.. uh.. do have microswitches in them for that very reason. :-) Maybe it was a design intention, or just an acknowledgement that it was going to happen anyway, so may as well cater to it. There are even a few machines that don't give you access to the button, so your only option is to push the drawer closed. ugh.. seems barbarian.
@@nickwallette6201 yeah, eventually those plastic gears seem to grind a bit. It might be my imagination, but if i remember correctly it happened more to my friends who were always pushing the tray closed, eventually they ended up with drives that operated more like laptop (pc) drives.
Seeing a UA-cam video of a LaserDisc player takes me back to my childhood of the 1990s. In 3rd or 4th grade around 1997 to '98, of course they still had the D.A.R.E. program, and the presentation was on LaserDisc. Now a 33 yr old man with a little bit of gray hair 😂 to this day I'll never forget how my eyes opened up and my jaw dropped while watching my teacher slide the disk out of it's sleeve and inserting it into the player.
It's been a long time since I heard these noises. I used to have one of these back in the day. Long time gone.
This is a fantastic video series i hope comes back!
Like the CC's on this one very descriptive...I had one of these players in the UK ..my granddad loved laser discs and he gave me the player .. I personally only ever used it for cd's...the sounds bring back memories of a bygone time... haven't used a physical disc of any kind for easily over 7 years now.
It’d be really cool if you could make sound files available of the final takes without voiceover for sampling, sound design, etc.
The sound portions are without voiceover, so it should be easy to just cut the audio for that purpose.
A sample pack as eg. a Patreon perk would be interesting though!
@@kisaragi-hiu There are a handful of times when he is talking at the same time as the machine moving, but it is fairly rare. 🙂
I was wondering why you had such gnarly microphone hum until i remembered that's just what a powered on CRT sounds like.
That drum intro to Banana Phone is so recognizable
Anytime I hear TMBG... Especially S-E-X-X-Y... Is a glorious day... Good thing you did not get copy struck for it!
I bet that the steel pin in front of the CD player motor is supposed to engage the disk tray to ensure it is aligned properly, and probably the plastic groove it is supposed to slot in is worn out.
That is a good hypothesis.
Back in the Mid-nineties, a friend bought a LD player. He asked us what movie he should buy first, I campaigned and convinced him to buy Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles". It was around this time that the "Criterion Edition" LDs became a big thing, too.
I’m so happy to see you posted this. I’ve had a M403 model that powers on but something internally isn’t allowing it to kick out the tray.
And haven’t been able to find any videos of that model or one like it that has the 5 disc CD changer aspect layout, but thanks to you I have now! I’m gonna watch this as soon as I get home from the store & see if this video helps me fix my Laserdisc player!
I just might get to finally watch the two LD movies I own. 🤩 *wish me luck!*
The subtitles are a work of art
The 80´s devices imho had the best aesthetics. And I love the tracking sound of the optical system :)
As well as the clutch/drive/gear stuff. I still remember my first Canon Video8 cam, what a wonder of technology!
That overhead shot of the device around @11:10 was really nicely done. At least on 2x speed I watched it.
I love the fact you are doing these videos. Being a bit deaf, the nuances are lost on me, but for the partialy sighted they must be awsome.
This sounds SUPER similar to the simple Pioneer laser Disc player I had a few years ago, the loading mechanism must use the same motor.
We had a compact JVC system that had a 6-CD rectangular "cassette" mechanism that we really liked for about 10 years until the iTunes era.
The clunking sounds take me back. I always worried something was about to break. I don’t miss them.
I can't believe I can hear that CRT through the microphone and my headphones, aw man. I still can't believe we grew up with CRTs all around us whining all high pitched.
Keep being awesome you awesome human 😎👍
Interesting to see what's going on, and both so much better than my Technics CD changer. It just has a single CD sized tray, and to change discs it lifts them off the tray and stores them within the machine. So loading multiple discs is time consuming as after loading each disc you have to wait for it to close the tray, change discs, then open the tray again before you can load the next one.
I like the little wobbly sound it makes as it plays the laserdisc
Ray Lynch! Excellent choice.
I give it 3 years until we hear this audio sampled and made into the beat of a hit song
I have one of these guys in my living room entertainment center cabinet, so *these* sights and sounds were very familiar to me!
I find it fun to watch how the machine does what it do and listen to the clank
Is there anything preventing the robot arm from moving a CD from one tray to another? It's obviously not implemented in the control logic but is there any physical reason it couldn't do that?
It’s self aware!
no, just software.
@@pashko90 you’re one of them!
There is not. The robot arm can spin a full 360° around. Unimpeded by anything.
It just remembers that disc 5 has to go back to place 5 before it can pick up the next CD.
Yep, it definitely _could,_ there's just no reason to.
Man I just love the old "ohm" Pioneer logo
I like how multi disc players come off obsessive compulsive when you dont load them. Going through each slot like, "is anything here?....damn, nope.... anything HERE? damn, nope, ANYTHING HERE??? DAMMIT NOPE!.....
It takes a lot of effort for some, which makes the IR reflection check of that Sony all the more clever. It just turns the carousel and does its whole inventory in like three seconds with very little effort. Sony's engineering choices weren't always the most impressive solution, but maybe the most elegant solution.
This brings me back.
Used to have a 110 (or there about) multi-disk, Pioneer, I think.
I did enjoy the noises it made as it did it thing.
Long gone.
Also
Picked it up once to move it and all the disks did a runner and hid themselves all around the inside of the machine.
That was a fun day.
The fact this video (no exaggeration) hurt my ears with the high pitched CRT sounds, just coming from my PHONE, tells me the audio is as close to real life as possible 🤣
Did anyone else have a horizontal style CD changer? My parents still have one that holds, I think, 25 CDs and uses a sort of swing arm to pull discs out of the slot and play them. I'd love to see the inside of one of those.
I think you mean vertical? They looked really stylish. Well they did when I was younger 🙂
Nothing else whirrs, klunks, and grrroaoaoanns like a Pioneer LD machine.
(I have owned a CLD-D702 since July of 1993.)
Man some of those clunks gave me the scratched cd anxieties. And I haven't used a cd player for years!
Very meditative and soothing
I love this series!
My old stereo had a system like this. It worked similar to the Sony in this, only it was made more compact because the disks were at an angle. It also lifted the disks to play but I don’t think you could change disks.
With how one of the target audiences for this series is blind people, I can’t help myself from noting things that might be confusing to them, like how he shuffled one of the CDs when he put in five, so it could have sounded like he put in six or seven, instead of five.
My parents have a JVC cd changer. It's similar to a lot of automotive cd changers in that is uses a magazine with 5 trays and at the back of the machine there is a mechanism that grabs the trays with the disc and takes it down to the player section below the magazine. It's pretty dumb in that it picks up every tray and loads it to see if there's a disc present but it's never once gotten jammed in 30 years. There was some really interesting engineering going on back then. Looking back it seems odd that we had stuff like that but it took us another 20 years to make 3D printing something people could do at home
Also remember that computers were WAY less powerful back in the day. Sure, they could've made 3D printers, but computing technology wasn't fast enough to handle operating the thing
@@kadepow11 it was plenty fast enough especially in the late 90s. It was mostly patents and legal crap that held things like 3D printing back for so long
@@binky_bun you're right, I was thinking time period of early 80s lol
I find it sad that many (most?) people don't really appreciate the beauty of such things.
That little Sony tinetron so cute!
I miss those very clicky-sounding controls on antiques ... you could call those that now, right? 😆
Love the Mad Magazine "ging-ging" sound of that spring
8:35 - I’ve had that misalignment problem on two different players, but with laserdiscs. It eventually connects after five or more tries. (One is a regular Pioneer LD player, but the first was a multi-disc unit like this, but made by Sony. I bought it in…. 1991, I think?)
I had this TV in my room in my early teens :)
Ahh, the sound of nostalgia...
So much content i might overdose!
(10:04) LOL! Is that Weird Al? Love it! 😀
Yes. Yes it is. I'm pretty sure it is the poodle hat album.
I'm not one who particularly likes ASMR but this seems like it would be perfect for a niche electronic based ASMR type series.
"And now I'll switch to disc 5"
Oh, Factory Showroom.
[we hear the same multi-motor shenanigans before the disc tray opens]
The laser disc sounds like a Jetsons spaceship taking off when it starts up.
I had a 5 disc dvd player at one time. It was good and not good at the same time. It had the problem of not being properly designed software. So it could not just go to the disc you wanted. It had to cycle through the discs first until it got to the one you wanted at the time. So it was frustrating, but it was cool as I didn't have to worry about getting up to change discs. It also played CDs but it did not play Laserdiscs. I believe it was a Toshiba but not sure nowadays. My machine was a lot like the Sony machine in design.
7:31 can you fill all the 5 disk positions and then close it while the 6th disk is playing? Would that break the thing and ruing the spinning CD against the new one that would be bellow it?
It would break the CD at the very least. However, the changer knows which disc it is currently holding on to, and will not allow you to access that slot. Therefore, once you stop the machine or change discs, the disc that was playing while the tray was open will always have a free space to be set down upon.
"[laser seeky noises]"
-Technology Connextras captions, 2021
Great combo I love the girls idea with subtitles I love peoples other ideas
I'm literally sitting across the room from the same model LD player! :P
These are comfy noises
i love you alec, you are both based and blessed. blased, if you will
Growing up, I never met a laser disc owner who didn't own a Pioneer player.
Never dislike nerd ASMR
You can't dislike anymore anyway.
aaah, the high pitched tone omg.... i wount listen to even a second more of it.....
I definitely did not expect that kind of 'a laser disk'. I mean, 5 of them supposed to fit inside
PS: I'm disappointed! It should have been 5 of those big disks!
This is the kind of review i want to modern stuff like blu ray players and 4k k want to see the load time k want to here the sounds and see how the menu responds. You should do some modern reviews
I forgot how big the laser frisbees are talk about some old technology