Both the Magnavox Magnavision and the Pioneer LD players used the same model of laser tube. The earliest players employed gas helium–neon laser tubes to read discs and had a red-orange light with a wavelength of 628 nm, while later solid-state players used infrared semiconductor laser diodes with a wavelength of 780 nm. The last models Pioneer produced were the DVL-919 (an LD/ DVD player), CLD-R5 (an LD/ CD player), DVK-900 (an LD/DVD karaoke system), and DVL-K88 (an LD/DVD karaoke player). Pioneer announced the end of LaserDisc player production in January 2009. In 1996, Pioneer distributed their first DVD player in Japan, a combination Laserdisc/DVD player, model DVL-9. In the 1990s, Pioneer and others produced a small number of a high-definition video player models, which employed multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding (MUSE) technology. Pioneer became the market leader in LaserDisc technology. This model, the Pioneer LD-700, was also the first LaserDisc player with a front-loading disc bay instead of a top-loading one. In 1984, Pioneer Corporation introduced the first consumer player with a solid-state laser diode. ![]() LaserDisc was the first optical disc format marketed to consumers it was introduced by MCA DiscoVision in 1978.įrom 1978 until 1984, all LaserDisc player models read discs by using a helium–neon laser. ![]() A top-loading, Magnavox-branded LaserDisc player with the lid open.Ī LaserDisc player is a device designed to play video ( analog) and audio ( analog or digital) stored on LaserDisc.
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