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poor. Many times the LD would not recover. >><br />
Actually, the skips from early MCA DiscoVision discs were due to the<br />
combination of player and disc. The Magnavox Magnavision VH-8000 (and 8005)<br />
players could only track near perfect discs, and thus did not do well with<br />
the majority of software comming out of MCA's Carson main production and<br />
Costa Mesa Pilot Plant. The introduction of Pioneer's VP-1000 for Christmas<br />
1980, pretty much eliminated all skipping except in the case of VERY<br />
defective discs. Since MCA DiscoVision was pressing discs on what were<br />
(slightly modified) conventional LP record presses, and were NOT using clean<br />
room conditions (clean rooms at DiscoVision did not happen until IBM came on<br />
board), the tracks of the discs would end up out of spec. Even a track that<br />
is slightly out of spec will cause the disc to LaserLock or skip. Pioneer<br />
incorporated additional lens movement capability into thier VP-1000 to handle<br />
the out of spec tracks...this lead to Philips lodging an official complaint<br />
with MCA charging collusion between Pioneer and DiscoVision and with hiding<br />
the problems from Philips.<br />
With the opening of Pioneer's Kofu plant in Japan, and the truly clean room<br />
conditions, skipping and laser lock were a thing of the past.<br />
I bought my first LD player X-Mas 81 (a Pioneer LD-1100) and the skipping<br />
problem, even with DiscoVision titles was MUCH less severe than <strong>CED</strong>'s. I got<br />
my (SGT-250) <strong>CED</strong> player Jan 83, and was horrified by the skips. It was so<br />
bad that I stopped buying <strong>CED</strong> discs alltogether, and wasn't until the release<br />
of the SJT-400 that I started buying again. (and while that player was MUCH,<br />
MUCH better, it still would skip 100% more than LD) Plus, you didn't have to<br />
worry about skipping increasing with time on a LaserDisc (unless you<br />
scratched it horribly) as you did with a <strong>CED</strong>.<br />
>>Next was the delamination of the LD's. This was a major problem for<br />
LD's and there were many recalls of titles. LD's were produces as two<br />
separate discs and then laminated together. A process that was never<br />
fully perfected until later. As you might recall the number of LD's was<br />
greatly reduced after the demise of <strong>CED</strong>.
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