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I agree buttt it’s an awesome collectible.

It was supposed to come out much earlier than it did, in the 60s.

Well, we invested already 650 Million $, let's see if we can get some of it back from those poor consumers.

@@Ikes_online_video_space_78 1). It wasn't Victor, it was JVC who developed the VHD disc 2). JVC only developed VHD because RCA had GIVEN them an early CED prototype, which JVC then improved. 3). RCA then turned around and incorporated the improvements JVC came up with into the CED system

LD was trying to hit the "high end", primarily by offering features not seen at that time on tapes. Like trailers, documentaries, commentary tracks, and other things just not available on tape. However, some CED offered those also. I owned several that were letterbox, and also featured things like trailers and extra content. But LD was aimed at the high end collector, CED was aimed at the common consumer. And I also remember when all three were new. Tape and LD were around $100 each movie, but CED was only around $20 each movie. That is a huge boost for families.

Also keep in mind, these were the days before movies were being "remastered". Since home video was relatively new, many studios would provide RCA with a "good" copy of the film for them to dub to videotape. So this means some films look better than others. My copy of "Shaft" is a glory to behold while my first pressing of "The French Connection" is practically unwatchable. Not because of static or skips, but the audio is muffled badly and the film is so dark, that nighttime scenes are just a black screen. My RCA pressing of "Live and Let Die" is the most laughable. While most of the film is in good condition, about 3/4 of the way through on side 1, there was an obvious jam in the film, followed by a very poor splice. This was copied to the video tape and was copied to the video disk. It's hysterical that anything like that would be allowed today. But you have front-row seats to watching the film get fluttery, get dark where it burned when it jammed, followed by a nasty visible splice with a terrible audio THUMP accompanying it. I like CED Videodiscs for what they are; a fascinating piece of history that had the potential to be more than it was. Sometimes, it's even fun to watch movies on.

No, that wasn't the problem. It's the age of the discs and players causing playback issues today. Back in the 80's CED easily beat VHS on quality, and was nearly identical to early LaserDisc.

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They look great on the wall side by side, use a old movie film edge to enhance the look.

​@@flyrobin2544Agreed. I have a 3x3 display of Ld, vinyl soundtracks and now Ced disc's in good condition. I swap them out periodically. Beats movie posters. The ceds are all in one row, while ld and lp are interchangeable, same size jackets

Laserdisc was overall not popular with most people anyways and were shortlived

@@JayPatrolit certainly didn’t reach mass adoption but the format continued until about 2000. Definitely not short lived by any stretch.

_"The best part is the case. you dont ever have to touch the disc."_ And RCA did that as a matter of necessity. Originally, the disc was meant to be handled by hand. But despite efforts RCA made to make the disc easy to handle without touching the signal surface, people managed to touch those areas of prototype discs anyway, and the fingerprint left behind would degrade the signal at that point. And you couldn't really clean it off without also risking stripping away the silicone layer on the surface, which was meant to help prolong disc life by reducing friction with the stylus. So, RCA devised an autoloading system, to eliminate the risk of fingerprints on the disc altogether. Of course, LaserDisc didn't have that kind of a problem. Touch the signal surface of a LaserDisc, and usually the player can just play through it with no problem. Or, if there was a problem, it could simply be cleaned off. ---- _"I think the technology used for this was used for laser etching vinyl records."_ CED copper master discs were cut using a special lathe machine that didn't use lasers at all. Lasers were used to check the quality of blank copper master discs as well as to check the integrity of the recording of cut copper master discs, but that's about it when it comes to lasers used to make discs ... unless we also count barcode scanners used in production.

@@Watcher3223 cool, cheers for the info :) Unlike LD CED never came to Australia i think and its a shame because the concept would have been good if they pulled off the player in time. LD's cost around $50-$90 AUD ea at the time.

@@jamesburke2759 Speaking from experience, CED actually wasn't a very good format. Australia really didn't miss much in this case. CED's picture quality is roughly on par with VHS, with a slight edge in favor of VHS overall, IMO. Despite some online sources claiming that CED had an edge in video quality compared to VHS, CED video doesn't seem to be quite as stable on average, at least to me. Sound quality was better on CED compared to video cassette ... up until VCRs with AFM Hi-Fi debuted. VHS Hi-Fi and Beta hi-fi, with their wider frequency response and higher dynamic range, blew CED stereo sound with CX noise reduction out of the water.

"The Fauk" lol

It was in development for 17 years. RCA aimed to make a sequel to colour television starting in 1964. It was a great idea, but RCA experiencing shifting priorities for the worse led to it being delayed so hard that it came out too late. Over $600 million was spent on the project.

_"VHS/Beta pre-recorded tapes were VERY expensive because they had to be dubbed in factories and could not be high-speed dubbed like audio cassette due to the nature of helical scan used on VHS/Beta."_ Well, yes and no. Initially, duplication of video cassettes were done using large banks of recorders. Sony would develop high speed video tape sprinter machines, which could duplicate a two hour movie recorded in the SP speed on VHS in one minute. And another reason why prerecorded video cassettes were more expensive than video discs was also because movies on cassettes were sold through a tier whereas movies on discs were direct sale. For video tape, you first sold to the rental market, which had the highest prices. Then when that market was satisfied, you sold to the collector market at lower prices, but still expensive. Then when that market was satisfied, you sold to the masses at the lowest price. ---- _"As for your bad picture/static audio you very likely need to change the cartridge on your CED machine."_ Yes and no. The stylus cartridge is a wear item, but the problems we see here can still be due to the disc. The CED format was a bit finicky even at its best. Sometimes, you can have a disc with skips merely because you hadn't played it for a long time.

The static can also come from a poor connection on the RCA jack.

No, the best helping thing is that you stop defending this crap scam format

No, the best helping thing is that you stop defending this crap scam format

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