DENON LA-3100 LASERDISC LASER DISC PLAYER + 104 MOVIES Start Price USD 29.99 Current Price USD 204.00 Time Left - Bid Count 10 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, July 20, 2008 End Time Friday, July 25, 2008 Location Southgate, Michigan See more about 'DENON LA-3100 LASERDISC LASER DISC PLAYER + 104 MOVIES' Description THIS AUCTION IS FOR A PREVIOUSLY OWNED DENON LA-3100 LASERDISC PLAYER AND 104 LASERDISCS, MANY ARE NEW IN PACKAGE. NO BOX OR INSTRUCTIONS. PLAYER IS IN VERY GOOD WORKING CONDITION.REMOTE INCLUDED. (HAVE HAD SOME  PROBLEMS WITH REMOTE FUNCTION)  THE DENON LA-3100 LD PLAYER ORIGINALY RETAILED FOR $1200 AND CONSIDERED TOP OF THE LINE WITH IT'S PERFORMANCE AND CONVENIENCE FEATURES. THE 3100 AUTOMATICALLY PLAYS BOTH SIDES OF TWO-SIDED DISC. THE ONE SHOT MEMORY CAN BE USED TO HOLD A FRAME IN DIGITAL MEMORY AND PUT IT ON SCREEN AT THE END OF THE PROGRAM.  YOU CAN VIEW A STILL FRAME WHILE LISTENING TO AN AUDIO TRACK. THERE ARE PROVISIONS FOR CHOOSING BETWEEN A VIDEODISC DIGITAL ANALOG AUDIO TRACKS. INCLUDES THEATER MODE, SOFT PICTURE FUNCTION, AND MANY OTHER UPGRADES AND FUNCTIONS. LOOKED OVER THE MOVIES AND ALL APEAR TO BE FINE DID TEST MANY AND ALL PLAYED WELL, WITH EXCEPTION OF 1 WHICH IS NOTED. ALL MOVIES APPEAR IN GOOD CONDITION BUT NOT ALL CHECKED. THE FOLLOWING MOVIES ARE INCLUDED; WIDE SCREEN RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK WIDE SCREEN THE DEVILS OWN WIDE SCREEN PATRIOT GAMES WIDE SCREEN AIR FORCE ONE WIDE SCREEN CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER NATIONAL PARKS AMERICAS NATURAL HERITAGE (NEW) NATURAL STATES (NEW) DESERT VISIONS WIDE SCREEN BATMAN MASK OF THE PHANTASM WIDE SCREEN BATMAN AND MR FREEZE SUB ZERO (NEW) BATMAN LETTERBOX BALTO WIDE SCREEN LAST ACTION HERO WIDE SCREEN CRIMSON TIDE INCLUDES THE MAKING OF CRIMSON TIDE WIDE SCREEN TWISTER WIDE SCREEN THE PELICAN BRIEF BATMAN RETURNS WIDE SCREEN BRAVEHEART WIDE SCREEN THE ROCK EXTENDED PLAY RISKY BUSINESS WIDE SCREEN THE CLIENT WIDE SCREEN EXECUTIVE DECISION TOP GUN WIDE SCREEN TRUE LIES A TIME TO KILL WIDE SCREEN UNDER SEIGE 2 DARK TERRITORY WIDE SCREEN BROKEN ARROW WIDE SCREEN MISSION IMPOSSIBLE LETTERBOX APPOLLO 13 LETTERBOX BACKDRAFT LETTERBOX BABE IMAX HAIL COLUMBIA FREE WILLY 3 THE RESCUE WIDE SCREEN SPACE JAMS LETTERBOX WAR GAMES WIDE SCREEN DANTE'S PEAK WIDE SCREEN FIRE DOWN BELOW WIDE SCREEN ANOTHER STAKE OUT SCENT OF A WOMEN WIDE SCREEN ABSOLUTE POWER WIDE SCREEN TOMBSTONE WIDE SCREEN CHASERS (NEW) WIDE SCREEN STAR TREK 2 THE WRATH OF KHAN (NEW) WIDE SCREEN STAR TREK 4 THE VOYAGE HOME WIDE SCREEN STAR TREK 6 THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY WIDE SCREEN STAR TREK FIRST CONTACT WIDE SCREEN DISNEY GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE DISNEY HONEY WE SHRUNK OURSELVES WIDE SCREEN DISNEY AIR BUD WIDE SCREEN LIMITED EDITION DISNEY MARY POPPINS LETTERBOX DISNEY BLANK CHECK WIDE SCREEN DISNEY LIVE ACTION 101 DALMATIONS WIDE SCREEN DISNEY FLUBBER ROBIN WILLIAMS LETTERBOX DISNEY POCAHONTAS DISNEY ALADDIN AND THE KING OF THIEVES 45TH ANNIVERSARY DISNEY PETER PAN 55TH ANNIVERSARY DISNEY BAMBI DISNEY THE SPIRIT OF MICKEY THE LAND BEFORE TIME A NEW ADVENTURE IS BORN THE LAND BEFORE TIME III THE TIME OF THE GREAT GIVING THE LAND BEFORE TIME IV JOURNEY THROUGH THE MIST THE LAND BEFORE TIME V THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (NEW) THE RIGHT STUFF DISNEY FANTASIA SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE GOES COMMERCIAL (PLAYS FAIR) (NEW) WINNER BY A HARE WIDE SCREEN TITANIC WIDE SCREEN THE MASK OF ZORRO (NEW) WIDE SCREEN BLADE RUNNER DIRECTORS CUT WIDE SCREEN BIG WITH TOM HANKS (NEW) WIDE SCREEN TRADING PLACES WIDE SCREEN THE SANDLOT WIDE SCREEN ROOKIE OF THE YEAR LETTERBOX JURASSIC PARK WIDE SCREEN THE MASK MURDER AT 1600 THE ROAD RUNNER VS. WILEY E COYOTE IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED WILEY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY 3 NINJAS WIDE SCREEN 3 NINJAS KNUCKLE UP WIDE SCREEN 3 NINJAS KICK BACK WIDE SCREEN THE FUGITIVE DISNEY THE SWORD AND THE STONE DISNEY THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE WIDE SCREEN THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DANE LETTERBOX DISNEY THE LION KING DISNEY DUMBO DISNEY THE MIGHTY DUCKS LETTERBOX DISNEY THE MIGHTY DUCKS D2 LETTERBOX DISNEY THE MIGHTY DUCKS D3 LETTERBOX THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER WIDE SCREEN SPEED WIDE SCREEN IN THE LINE OF FIRE HEARTBREAK RIDGE LETTERBOX INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (NEW) ASTROIDS BATMAN AND ROBIN ERASER SPECIAL WIDE SCREEN EDITION STARWARS WIDE SCREEN THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK WIDE SCREEN RETURN OF THE JEDI DUE TO WEIGHT AND POSTAL REGULATIONS PLAYER CAN NOT BE SHIPPED VIA MEDIA MAIL, THEREFORE IT WILL BE SHIPPED PRIORITY OR PARCEL POST. MOVIES WILL BE SHIPPED IN TWO OTHER BOXES BOTH OF WHICH WILL BE SENT MEDIA MAIL. THIS IS TO SAVE MY CUSTOMERS SHIPPING COST AND TO COMPLY WITH POSTAL REGULATIONS.THESE ITEMS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE FOR LOCAL ONLY PICKUP!!!! PLEASE ASK ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU BID!!! ALWAYS WILLING TO ANSWER ANY AND ALL. WILL COMBINE INSURANCE IS OPTIONAL ON ALL MY AUCTIONS. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND. I CANNOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR LOST OR DAMAGED ITEMS AFTER THEY LEAVE MY HANDS. ALL ITEMS ARE PACKED WITH THE UTMOST CARE.SHIPPING FOR YOU. THANK YOU.   STHEREome disc players don't deliver the basic performance goods, of course, but Denons's LA-3100 ($1,200) is not one of them. It is, in fact, a terrific disc player. While it certainly isn't a budget box, it is in the ballpark for a loaded model (albeit a little on the high side). And loaded it is, with the performance and convenience features that define top of the line. The 3100 automatically plays both sides of two-sided videodiscs. Digital still frame and multispeed play are on tap for standard CLV discs (these effects are encoded on pricey CAV discs, and any player can access them); regarding the multispeed feature, you can play videos at up to three times or down to one-sixteenth the normal speed. There's a "one-shot" memory, which you can use to hold a frame in digital memory and put it on screen at the end of the program. You can view a still frame while listening to an audio track. The strobe function lets you enjoy a montage effect, with the same range of choices offered for multispeed play. Denon didn't skimp on the format's basic features either. You can designate a sequence to play over and over again. There are provisions for choosing between a videodisc's digital or analog audio tracks; movie companies often put a movie's soundtrack on the digital portion and use the analog track for things like the director's commentary. You can quickly access specific scenes by their "chapter" numbers when the disc has been encoded in this fashion (most are); you can also jump directly to a specific frame or time on a videodisc. There are various repeat-play modes for videodiscs, and repeat-and random-play modes for CDs. The jog wheel and shuttle dial (found on both the front panel and the remote) let you zip back and forth on a disc. And then there are the extra extras. First, there's the THEATRE mode, which is just a fancy name for a circuit that turns off the front panel's lights and on-screen displays. That may sound inconsequential, but you'll probably end up putting your disc player directly above or below your TV, and the lighting and displays can be distracting. Finally, there's the SOFT PICTURE function, which you can only use when you've hooked the player up using its S-Video output (a videophile method that separates the video signal into two parts for theoretically "cleaner" images). The SOFT PICTURE function actually diminishes picture detail. It isn't something you'd want to use every day; after all, the advantage of the videodisc format is the fact that its picture is some 60 percent sharper than that of a conventional VCR. It may come in handy, though, with "noisy" (read: poorly transferred) discs plagued by snow or other visual artifacts. The 3100 doesn't throw any curves at you when it comes to hookup. Since it's a playback-only machine, you only have three or four outputs to worry about. The video output goes directly to a TV (not into an A/V receiver or other system controller); feel free to use the S-Video output if the receiving end has S-Video inputs. (If you can see an improvement over the conventional connections, consider applying for a job as a spotter with the Air Force.) The audio outputs should go into a surround-sound processor or A/ V controller, however. Easy. Note that the ' sor four" I mentioned above refers to those S-Video outputs. Which leaves us where we started; performance. I plugged the 3100 into my system and compared it head-to-head with my own disc player, a heavyweight model from a rival manufacturer that I bought because it offers one of the finest pictures I'd ever seen. Plain and simple, both pictures were tremendousw and indistinguishable from one another. Colours from Warner's restoration of The Searchers (some of the most sumptuous Technicolor you'll find on disc) were superb. Ultrasharp images from the films of the Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky (brilliantly rendered on a handful of mighty expensive Japanese import discs), came across beautifully, proving that the 3100 delivers very high resolution. Noise was minimal; though this usually says more about the disc than the player (a badly pressed disc will look bad no matter what it's played on). The 3100's digital sound was flawless; with videodiscs, at least. CDs only sounded very good (by highend standards), but that's almost always the case with these combination players. In any case, "very good" for a CD player means "great" by all other criteria. Yes, the 3100 is well-designed and easy to use, and it delivers all the features and performance goods; in spades. Still, my experience with it left me feeling in a lurch. Yes, this is a great disc player. But I wanted something more for $1,200. Suddenly it hit me. A few weeks ago, I was browsing around New York City' s China-town and purchased a used disc of Erotic Ghost Story 11, an ultrabizarre film from Hong Kong. It's a great disc (really!} only it has a scratch on the second side that caused a 5-minute swath of the movie to jam, jump, and freeze. So I wondered: Maybe the 3100 could play through the damaged portion, since its inner workings employ something called a "Time Base Corrector"; Denon says it compensates for the kind of picture jitter you get with damaged or defective discs (its inclusion helps explain the player's slightly higher-than-average pricetag). ome disc players don't deliver the basic performance goods, of course, but Denons's LA-3100 ($1,200) is not one of them. It is, in fact, a terrific disc player. While it certainly isn't a budget box, it is in the ballpark for a loaded model (albeit a little on the high side). And loaded it is, with the performance and convenience features that define top of the line. The 3100 automatically plays both sides of two-sided videodiscs. Digital still frame and multispeed play are on tap for standard CLV discs (these effects are encoded on pricey CAV discs, and any player can access them); regarding the multispeed feature, you can play videos at up to three times or down to one-sixteenth the normal speed. There's a "one-shot" memory, which you can use to hold a frame in digital memory and put it on screen at the end of the program. You can view a still frame while listening to an audio track. The strobe function lets you enjoy a montage effect, with the same range of choices offered for multispeed play. Denon didn't skimp on the format's basic features either. You can designate a sequence to play over and over again. There are provisions for choosing between a videodisc's digital or analog audio tracks; movie companies often put a movie's soundtrack on the digital portion and use the analog track for things like the director's commentary. You can quickly access specific scenes by their "chapter" numbers when the disc has been encoded in this fashion (most are); you can also jump directly to a specific frame or time on a videodisc. There are various repeat-play modes for videodiscs, and repeat-and random-play modes for CDs. The jog wheel and shuttle dial (found on both the front panel and the remote) let you zip back and forth on a disc. And then there are the extra extras. First, there's the THEATRE mode, which is just a fancy name for a circuit that turns off the front panel's lights and on-screen displays. That may sound inconsequential, but you'll probably end up putting your disc player directly above or below your TV, and the lighting and displays can be distracting. Finally, there's the SOFT PICTURE function, which you can only use when you've hooked the player up using its S-Video output (a videophile method that separates the video signal into two parts for theoretically "cleaner" images). The SOFT PICTURE function actually diminishes picture detail. It isn't something you'd want to use every day; after all, the advantage of the videodisc format is the fact that its picture is some 60 percent sharper than that of a conventional VCR. It may come in handy, though, with "noisy" (read: poorly transferred) discs plagued by snow or other visual artifacts. The 3100 doesn't throw any curves at you when it comes to hookup. Since it's a playback-only machine, you only have three or four outputs to worry about. The video output goes directly to a TV (not into an A/V receiver or other system controller); feel free to use the S-Video output if the receiving end has S-Video inputs. (If you can see an improvement over the conventional connections, consider applying for a job as a spotter with the Air Force.) The audio outputs should go into a surround-sound processor or A/ V controller, however. Easy. Note that the ' sor four" I mentioned above refers to those S-Video outputs. Which leaves us where we started; performance. I plugged the 3100 into my system and compared it head-to-head with my own disc player, a heavyweight model from a rival manufacturer that I bought because it offers one of the finest pictures I'd ever seen. Plain and simple, both pictures were tremendousw and indistinguishable from one another. Colours from Warner's restoration of The Searchers (some of the most sumptuous Technicolor you'll find on disc) were superb. Ultrasharp images from the films of the Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky (brilliantly rendered on a handful of mighty expensive Japanese import discs), came across beautifully, proving that the 3100 delivers very high resolution. Noise was minimal; though this usually says more about the disc than the player (a badly pressed disc will look bad no matter what it's played on). The 3100's digital sound was flawless; with videodiscs, at least. CDs only sounded very good (by highend standards), but that's almost always the case with these combination players. In any case, "very good" for a CD player means "great" by all other criteria. Yes, the 3100 is well-designed and easy to use, and it delivers all the features and performance goods; in spades. Still, my experience with it left me feeling in a lurch. Yes, this is a great disc player. But I wanted something more for $1,200. Suddenly it hit me. A few weeks ago, I was browsing around New York City' s China-town and purchased a used disc of Erotic Ghost Story 11, an ultrabizarre film from Hong Kong. It's a great disc (really!} only it has a scratch on the second side that caused a 5-minute swath of the movie to jam, jump, and freeze. So I wondered: Maybe the 3100 could play through the damaged portion, since its inner workings employ something called a "Time Base Corrector"; Denon says it compensates for the kind of picture jitter you get with damaged or defective discs (its inclusion helps explain the player's slightly higher-than-average pricetag).  Place a Bid!