How do laser disc's look on plasma TV?

Another issue with widescreen LD's on a 16:9 TV is that they are not anamorphically enhanced, so they will often come out "windowboxed", with "black bars" on all 4 sides of the picture, unless you zoom the picture. This zooming further reduces quality.
John

I personaly own 3 Ld players one is a first generation model which I use for burning CD's with my Pioneer burner. The other one is a marantz 1994 model which I would consider on the upper end of their food chain. The one I use mostly and it is connected via a Monster S connect is a Pioneer that plays Laser disc's and DVD's as well as CD. Your right about Ld'S not being anmoriphically enhanced because on LD this process on my Sony is by passed. Thanks guys, I have been toying on getting a wall mount Plasma and if I can hook up via a S connect I will be O.K.? The Pioneer is Top of the line model that was only produced in Japan I believe it is the 919.

I have a Japanese 919 myself and it is just a so-so LD player. If you want the best available player made for the US market, go with a Pioneer Elite CLD-97, Pioneer CLD-D704, or Mcintosh MLD-7020 which is the same as the Elite. There are a few more that are good such as some of the Thetas or EADs but the are based on the best Pioneer transports. I have a Japanese HLD-X9 which is the best LD player made. It is also playes Hi Def Muse LDs.

Rwwear,
Most of my Laser disc's on the back say they have digital sound. Even the older ones with CX coding. I was told that the picture is analog though. Of these laser disc players you mention any of them play both formats.

None of the best ones play both formats in fact the X9 only plays LDs, no CDs. I borrowed this info about the digital sound of LDs.
(Unlike DVDs, which carry Dolby Digital audio in digital form, Laserdiscs store Dolby Digital in a frequency modulated form within a track normally used for analog audio. Extracting Dolby Digital from a Laserdisc required a player equipped with a special "AC-3 RF" output and an external demodulator in addition to an AC-3 decoder. The demodulator was necessary to convert the 2.88 MHz modulated AC-3 information on the disc and convert it into a 384 kbit/s signal that the decoder could understand. DTS audio took the place of the PCM audio tracks, and required only a direct connection via Optical Audio cable and a decoder to be heard.)