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Total green person here on laser discs….
What is the interest in these?
Picture, sound, other things?

Before DVD they were the epitome of video reproduction, the first to actually have AC3 ( Dolby Digital) or DTS surround sound.

Just got this for my DVL-91
It’s NOS (New Old Stock) and so can definitely see a difference between this and the cable I had been using. Which was just an audio cable that I grabbed and used.
I was using Monster M1000sv S-Video cable out to the Onkyo previously before I got the Marantz.
Howevah
The Marantz doesn’t have S-Video ins. Just a couple of Composite video ins.
Which is fine, because unlike S-VHS VCR’s. Laserdiscs don’t lay down the Chroma (Color) and brightness (black and white) information separately-The reason why S-Video connectors were created. Laserdisc players used their color decoders to separate them out and send them down to your monitor or receiver. Sometimes they were better than the ones in the TV 📺 and sometimes not.
So maybe you could see a difference between the S-Video and Composite and maybe not, depending on what you were using.
In this case the Marantz is converting the signal to HDMI and sending it out to the monitor.

Once he got the transport mechanism on the other player cleaned up (the old lubricant that they used turns into gum when it gets old he said) He took another look at my original player and using the new player as a template, realized whet the issue was with the older player and fixed it! He changed out the power supply as well with the one I brought him a year ago. So the player you see in the pic is the one I’ve had for over a decade. The one I bought recently is still at the shop. I expect I’ll be hearing from him sometime next year.

@xjghost Not sure if this would be a viable option, but maybe you can ship it to Electronics Service Center in Germantown, Maryland. That’s where mine are. They do good work and they have a website. You would have to be very patient though.