PIONEER Electronics 50 Year History-Part 4

A rare 55 minute program (split into 7 parts) celebrating PIONEER's 50 year history 1938-1988.
Contains old commercials from Japan along with rare pictures and footage of the plants and assembly lines from the 1950's to 1980's.
This rare program was produced in 1988.
For the PIONEER Stereo-Laserdisc enthusiast.
A Madpioneer exclusive!
Enjoy!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• PIONEER
• Japanese
• Japan
• commercial
• 1938
• 1960
• 1988
• Laserdisc
• laservision
• amplifier
• speaker
• stereo
• turntable
• CDV
• CD
• electronics
• HPM
• SPEC
• SX
• Matsumoto

[lyris1]

Voiceover: "There was much trial and error"

^ What an incredibly polite way of saying that MCA couldn't manufacture discs for shit.

[madpioneer]

@lyris1 Good thing MCA lost interest and it was taken over, otherwise it could have been the death of LaserDisc just as it got started.

[Watcher3223]

According to this video, Pioneer had opened its LD plant in 1979.

I recall a story of DiscoVision engineers from Carson, California visited the Japanese plant and basically made fun of Pioneer's extensive quality control when they saw the plant in operation.

Of course, when those American engineers saw the finished product, they stopped laughing.

You see, LD production by DiscoVision in the states had terrible quality that MCA didn't seem able to fix.

Pioneer basically took them to school.

[madpioneer]

I have read about the MCA DiscoVision short comings. I bought one DiscoVision LD once and had 'Laser Rot'. Took it back for a refund. I stay away from them now. Japanese TOEMI, which was a Toshiba EMI partnership were known 'rotters' with terrible finished discs. They are the only Japanese company I know of that dropped the LD ball. I have a disc from them that still plays, but they had a bad reputation. Other than that the Japanese were known for thier 'best is better' attitudes.

[eyeh8nbc]

Interesting that laserdisc came out in Japan AFTER it had been out in the US, but was far more successful there. BTW, you might be interested to know that many HD-DVDs made by Warner are now experiencing laser rot!

[musicman257]

i cant see that much difference in the laser disc or the dvd xcept the advantage is the dvd is smaller i still have my laser disc player from when pioneer first came out with them i aso have the gold champion stereo with thehpm 100s nd the laser disc kicks ass and looks good on my 73 mitsubishi screen

[fertub26]

why pionner not produce the hi fi quality of 70's or 80's with low thd now produce a plastic and desechable products.. what happend?

[MetallicBill]

@madpioneer People still feel Made in Japan is what you want to see on some purchased electronic item. More on the MCA plant, the reason 70s LD failed, it was a former furniture production facility, not the required clean room for making optical media!!

[MetallicBill]

Clearer then the resolution of LaserDisc. AKA Discovision is the fact TV basically STILL SUCKED, TVs were behind the possible LD resolution of analog video, and the public would have craved it more had the big screen revolution happened in the 70s or 80s

[musicman257]

i still have mine.withe the gold seriers stereo . i have the pl88f turntable and the hpm100 speakers with sx 8 receiver very nice system.