page_title: LaserDisc player
section_title: Other significant players
hierarchical_section_title: LaserDisc player / Other significant players
caption_attribution_description: The Pioneer LaserActive, a LaserDisc player/home video game console hybrid that was released 1993 for $970. The base configuration could only play music CDs and LaserDisc movies, however, so you'd have to buy the optional Sega Genesis or NEC TurboGrafx-16 packs to play other games. They were expensive ($600 each) and only had a few LaserDisc hybrid games available each.
context_page_description: A LaserDisc player is a device designed to play video and audio stored on LaserDisc. LaserDisc was the first optical disc format marketed to consumers; it was introduced by MCA DiscoVision in 1978.
  From 1978 until 1984, all LaserDisc player models read discs by using a helium–neon laser. In 1984, Pioneer Corporation introduced the first consumer player with a solid-state laser diode. This model, the Pioneer LD-700, was also the first LaserDisc player with a front-loading disc bay instead of a top-loading one. Pioneer became the market leader in LaserDisc technology.
  In the 1990s, Pioneer and others produced a small number of a high-definition video player models, which employed multiple sub-Nyquist sampling encoding technology.
  In 1996, Pioneer distributed their first DVD player in Japan, a combination Laserdisc/DVD player, model DVL-9.
  Pioneer announced the end of LaserDisc player production in January 2009. The last models Pioneer produced were the DVL-919, CLD-R5, DVK-900, and DVL-K88.
context_section_description: Japanese
  Pioneer LD-1000, Pioneer's first Japanese-market LD player (released in 1981)
  Pioneer HLD-X0
  Pioneer HLD-X9
  Pioneer LaserActive, a converged device that plays LaserDiscs and Compact Discs, as well as console games for the Mega Drive (Genesis) and PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16)
  Pioneer LD-S1, released in 1986
  Pioneer LD-X1, also called the Pioneer LD-S2 in North America
  Pioneer CLD-01, CD/LD Compatible Player (1992)
  American
  Pioneer VP-1000, Pioneer's first consumer player for North America (released in 1980)
  Pioneer LD-1100, Pioneer's first North American player to have built-in CX Noise Reduction (released in late 1981)
  Pioneer CLD-1010, first player capable of playing 5-inch (130 mm) CD-Video discs (released in 1987)
  Pioneer CLD-D703
  Pioneer CLD-97
  Pioneer CLD-99
  European
  Pioneer CLD-1050, PAL only
  Pioneer CLD-2950, PAL- and NTSC-compatible.
  Pioneer CLD-D925, PAL- and NTSC-compatible.
  Pioneer DVL series, capable of playing both LaserDiscs and DVDs
caption: Pioneer LaserActive (1993)
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