Context: In March 1984, Pioneer introduced the first consumer player with a solid-state laser, the LD-700. It was also the first LD player to load from the front and not the top. One year earlier Hitachi introduced an expensive industrial player with a laser diode, but the player, which had poor picture quality due to an inadequate dropout compensator, was made only in limited quantities. After Pioneer released the LD-700, gas lasers were no longer used in consumer players, despite their advantages, although Philips continued to use gas lasers in their industrial units until 1985.

Question: What was the name of the first solid-state laser consumer LaserDisc player?
Answer: LD-700

Question: Besides a solid-state laser, what else was unique about the LD-700?
Answer: first LD player to load from the front and not the top

Question: When did Pioneer release the LD-700?
Answer: March 1984

Question: Which company continued to use gas-lasers in industrial models of LD players although they were no longer used in consumer models?
Answer: Philips