Ugly Mitsubishi Laserdisc Player Model M-V6022

Before us sits the Mitsubishi Laserdisc Player Model M-V6022. This unit was purchased from a guy in St. Louis (see below). The unit is ugly, so lets see if some "miracle" restore product will make it look better, learn how it was brought back to life and see the Auto Reverse mechanism do some cool tricks.
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[@stacyholt6529]

We forget, in the age of streaming, and no moving parts, how amazing these machines were.

[@VinnytotheK]

I love my Mitsubishi VCR! I swear when you rewind with it, it sounds like one of their engines revving up! 😅

[@SurgemanX]

Mitsubishi,Hitachi,JVC,Panasonic,and Sharp was your best units for quality in the mid and late 80's!Mitsubishi was the only company that still produced VCR units that were still worth buying by the early to mid 90's.I have fixed a many of them all,but those have always been my main picks in quality!

[@musicnerd72]

​@@SurgemanXWe had a Toshiba VCR from around 1985 that lasted until my parents bought their DVD player in 2000. So I'd have to add them to the list.

[@Capturing-Memories]

That's not a plastic fade, It's a special rubbery coating that was put at the factory, So yes that product would not work.

[@targetrender9529]

The top Mitsubishi player is the M-V7057, which is a rebadged Pioneer CLD-D704, with AC-3 output.

[@Oldgamingfart]

I wonder if the plastic can be restored in the same manner as they do with sun-faded stadium seats.. by running a blowtorch over it! 😬🔥

[@scott8919]

Probably not. Not only is this plastic thinner, but it's most likely a different type of plastic. Take a blowtorch to this and unlike the seats it would turn to goo.

[@andrewlittleboy8532]

That’s definitely a Pioneer. The dead giveaway is the honeycomb metal panel at the front and the copper screws at the rear. Looks very similar internally to a Pioneer CLD 2600. The back panels are almost identical.

[@kaitlyn__L]

That answers my question! A classic OEM rebadge job.

[@mxslick50]

The other is the VNP prefix on the circuit boards. All of my old Pioneer players had that same marking.

[@MovieGuy846]

Close. It's actually a clone of the US model CLD-D501. The CLD-2600 is the European equivalent of the US model CLD-2090 which is one year older than the 501.

[@irtbmtind89]

The point of this rebadging exercise was likely so Mitsubishi could sell laserdisc players to go along with their big screen TVs and CRT projectors (they were a big player in this market in the 90s), but didn't want to spend the money to design one from scratch. Paying a bit of money to Pioneer was preferable to losing an entire sale to them. Their dealers (in 1992 a lot of this stuff would still be sold through independent stereo and home theatre dealers vs. national outfits like Best Buy) certainly would have wanted to sell a whole system complete with LD player.

[@MovieGuy846]

That is part of it. However, many companies will buy a chassis to rebadge a product with their name on it. Quite simply, Mitsubishi had no expertise in the manufacturing of LaserDisc players so it's obviously more cost effective to do what they did. Otherwise, they would have to charge an exorbitant price for something they made on their own or simply sell it as a loss. The only companies that made their own players were Pioneer, Panasonic, Philips, Sony, and possibly Samsung (but it's hard to tell sometimes). Pioneer made the majority of re-badged clone models. Also, this Mitsubishi unit is a clone of the PIoneer, CLD-D501.

[@branhicks]

We had a matching Mitsubishi 45" projection tv from this same era. It was pretty advanced for it's time

[@tookitogo]

4:00 Bear in mind that many, many, many Japanese consumer electronics devices’ plastic is painted. (Including black paint over black plastic.) I’d hazard a guess that _most_ plastic-front hi-fi/AV gear is painted. So plastic restorer may not do anything, because it’s not actually interacting with the plastic itself.

[@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777]

That thing looks exactly like a Pioneer I have. And to point out.. the model I have will play back problematic discs like a Champ - very robust no nonsense single disc one side only player. The unit I have appears to be for the industrial / school market with some interesting ports on the back and a very heavy duty power cord.

[@metalmusic1401]

awesome stuff mate!!!

[@DavidLang1975]

needs adjustment for side A, it took to long for the laser to find the track and focus. might need a tilt adjustment

[@Tamhvm]

I... I... I honestly think that was a cool video capture that you put there. Useful as all hell even in this "modern" age. I also tried some plastic restorer on a really faded record player I bought, I even tried big glops of the stuff left directly on the surface in case what I applied in the rag wasn't enough to permeate the surface, and it didn't worked either. I tried car dashboard restorer, and some other stuff, but the only one that kinda did something (and that is a big stretch) was... Black shoe polish. The problem with it is that you need to be REALLY careful, and basically disassemble the whole thing so that you can apply the thing without making a mess. Of course, it only has limited applicability because of the color.

[@kaitlyn__L]

Hmm, I wonder if this is OEMed by Pioneer, or if Mitsubishi just licensed the reverse side play mechanism. I’ve always appreciated how you show the operation with the sides off. Also that retro food packaging PSA was more interesting than I expected, comparing what’s changed and what’s the same.

[@BilisNegra]

That's a good guess, I would say.

[@MovieGuy846]

OEMed. Nothing is licensed from Pioneer; they just built it for Mitsubishi with their specifications in mind. Even the remote has the same IR codes so you can use a PIoneer remote on this Mitsubishi player.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@MovieGuy846 I figured it was just badge engineering. Thanks!

[@roosterampcrazy63]

09:24 My laserdisc player (Pioneer CLD-D702) also has a problem with Compact Discs getting stuck on the upper clamp/spindle. Cool video!

[@MovieGuy846]

Same problem I have on a Denon, LA-3100 (clone of the CLD-D701). I'm still trying to figure out what the issue is but I think it's a combination of the clamper assembly being too tight along w/ a stronger than usual magnet. You might have this stronger magnet if when you eject the tray you hear a loud thump just before it pops out.

[@DEMENTO01]

ive been wanting to get a laserdisc player and of course some laserdisc for a WHILE but those are very uncommon here in spain sadly :/

[@SudosFTW]

given I have a friend in chesterfield MO with a DVL-919 that likely needs a calibration... I think that guy is about to get some business.

[@databits]

Hit him up through his channel page. He appears to enjoy this work!

[@williamwilliam9993]

Are you using s-video to capture laserdisc?

[@rarbiart]

Please put the ingredients deciphering up fully, that mustache 90ies host was great. perhaps a second channel.

[@crashoveride879]

What disc are you showing at 11:42 ?

[@zaadbaad541]

I like it

[@LASERDISCDREAM]

Wow A Laser Disc Player Cool. 💿

[@GGoAwayy]

12:12 Does that answer include the end zones?

[@ralphreinhardt6020]

Yes, yes it does.

[@bobsbits5357]

hi one day a panel will turn up i had this before with a teac 44 parts from out player are lot easyer to find

[@databits]

I’ll be watching!

[@kaitlyn__L]

Man, UV protectant for cars does better than this. Obviously it doesn’t bring it back all the way, but it usually reduces the contrast of the splotches and darkens the grey to a greater or lesser degree. This seems to just shine it up a bit, and the shine would probably obscure small-enough scratches.

[@theshadowman1398]

There must be something out of alignment it makes to much grinding noises.

[@databits]

No disagreement here.

[@ShazeemKhan]

autobots! Play Disc!

[@mybigfatpolishlife]

What the hell happened to it