This is the LED panel whilst playing an NTSC disc. The status LED has five status options - off means there is no disc spinning, on means the disc is playing, steady blinking means the disc is paused (not halted), quick blink means the disc is spinning up and slow blink means the disc is spinning down.

The VP380 replaced my Pioneer CLD1200 as my main laserdisc player in October 2010, shortly after it arrived. This meant that I could now play the handful of NTSC discs which have accidentically found their way into my laserdisc collection (usually because E-Bay didn't say they weren't PAL), and it also allowed me to connect the player via the serial interface to one of the stations on my Econet for computer control. In addition it allowed me to use all the additional playback features of CAV discs which aren't supported on the rather basic CLD1200.

One casualty of this new arrangement has been the Toshiba TV set, which had doubled as television set and monitor for Station 128 since 2002, because it wasn't suitable for displaying pictures in NTSC format. It was replaced by my Goodmans telly which has no trouble with NTSC. The Tosh telly has gone into general (but rather limited, since it doesn't have a SCART socket) service instead.

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