CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

A couple of points:

"But most of the early laserdiscs look terrible today (laserrot)"

At lddb.com there are almost 5000 rot reports regarding about 3000 individual titles. This is ou ...

Once again many thanks go to Tom Howe for the wonderful CED Magic gift! You really outdid yourself this year, Tom - that is a very, very handsome USB drive!

Happy Holidays to all and a very Happ ...

Many, many thanks once again to Tom Howe for the wonderful holiday gift!

Much appreciated, and such a fun CED tradition.

Best to all for the new year!

A good way to see if Tom might surface or not is by checking the Products for Purchase page at the main site: http://cedmagic.com/home/purchase.html

Tom usually pulls down the "store" whe ...

OK, I've got it now if you want to edit that out of your post.

Hi, cedwaechter - I sent you an email just after your first reply here. Where am I sending the stylus?

ding ding ding!

We have a winner, folks. Thanks for playing!

Hey, all - I have a NOS RCA 154216 (blue) in box to give away. The flap on the side of the box tore, but looking closely at the needle the copper strip is intact and the needle looks fine (as far as ...

I find it hilarious that the seller refuses to write out all of "Zorro, The Gay Blade" and instead only put Zorro.

Yes. It could just be laziness or an oversight. But looking over the ...

With two threads and no less than five people asking for copies in the last 18 months, I'd speculate that the days of bargain Devo are long since past!

Well, you all heard my take on physical media in the "CED in our time" thread. Though regular DVD and BluRay are still in production, they are dying. The big labels have been making noise ...

CEDs never had any sort of copy protection.

I never said that it did, just that the symptoms sounded similar and perhaps some kind of troubleshooting strategy could be gleaned from that.

Lucki ...

This sounds like what we used to get when trying to copy a Macrovision-encoded VHS tape. They put flashing white signal in the vertical blanking interval (the same off-screen portion of a TV picture ...

Except those would be stretched out and STILL have the "dreaded black bars" on top and bottom.

Well, if we're going to get all particular about it - based on the text in the images that T ...

Just pretend that Tony was actually in the process of watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail - or Amarcord - or Manhattan - and the zoom suddenly makes perfect sense.

If you haven't already I would check/clean all of the white plastic sensor switches along the caddy path towards the back of the unit. I've seen completely bizarre behavior if one of them is stuck on ...

The basics of what it was about is in the first paragraph of the "CED Digest and CED Forum" page:

"CED Digest is a weekly email list that since 1996 has provided a means for people i ...

Umm... are you sure you've got the right guy? I did have some equipment posted on these boards over the years, but I didn't get an email and am not particularly close to Chicago (I'm in Boston, actua ...

Well, let me put it this way - if I could get a 154100 for $25 or a 149000 for $40 I sure wouldn't waste the money on the 149 just to be period-accurate!

Wow, price is already up there with 3 days of bidding left... this one should end up pretty high!

Hello -

The 149000 and 154100 are basically interchangeable. The decoding of the stereo signal on later models happens inside the player itself; there is no significant technical difference betwee ...

I find that like many forums that focus on niche interests the activity level has peaks and valleys. There were some lively discussions back when Tom first put the board in place, and then it did ind ...

I was also thinking that the thrift shop model's got quite the neck on him... Cyndi's looks a bit more casual.

There might be a bit of cross-collecting going on here as well. One of the strangest music video moments of the 80s (IMHO) was Cyndi Lauper cuddling her own ceramic Nipper in the Time After Time vide ...

Tom has struck me as the kind of guy who'd make sure we all knew if he was going to go MIA or not honor orders anymore.

That said, he surfaced just a few days ago and posted the "Free 400 CEDs ...

Do not feel bad about a thing. You left time for variables like illness etc, and if PayPal researches this and they find that there was a very good excuse it still isn't your problem or your fault. ...

I just said up above I used it!
Indeed - your post went up while I was still composing mine. Oops!

Your success with caddy cleaning is going to depend on a number of factors - namely the nature of the stain and its age. Some old dust and grime shouldn't be too tough to tackle, but if your discs on ...

Tom mentions the CBS Georgia CED plant on [url=http://www.cedmagic.com/featured/breaking-away/breaking-away.html]one of his old Featured CED pages.

The article wasn't bad as short little blurbs go. ...

Well, and this is just a guess, CED players mostly don't send any kind of signal unless the stylus is on the disk. They don't have a buffer to smooth out skips or other signal problems - either there ...