Pioneer sells another batch of Laserdisc players, in Japan

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This was just too odd NOT to post. I’m not sure for how long they’ve been manufacturing laser disc players–remember, those gigantic record size movies that sometimes were several discs for a single movie–but apparantly they still have stock and are trying to sell through. The funniest piece…they’re selling them for $1000 and $400 (yes, they have TWO models)! Good luck on those sales…

 

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But yesterday the same company (which manufactured the best hardware) issued a new press release [JP], saying it still has some players in stock, the DVL-919 ($1,000, pictured above) and the CLD-R5 ($400, pictured below). The main difference is that the R5 only plays LDs and CDs, while the 919 also can be used for DVDs (region 2).