CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

What Tom said about inner grooves is especially true on PAL, because we have a lower bandwidth signal anyway. It's the same as with turntables, if you have a dodgy stylus it's the last part of the dis ...

Hi,

Talking with John at cedatum (who's been very helpful and lived up to his reputation, incidentally, while servicing my stylus), he says that the fringing I'm getting on the inner part of some o ...

You'll need an NTSC TV to display an American CED player unfortunately. If you have composite video, your TV will likely support it just fine, but I've yet to see or hear of a TV that can grok an NTSC ...

Strange. I've emailed him again myself but no reply. Maybe he's away or something.....

Ah, well, if you've not heard anything back within a few days give me a yell and I'll see if he's receiving your messages.

Did you get my email from Friday I think it was? About someone I know has a spare... I sent it by clicking on the "email" button in the other thread...

No, they'll only work on PAL ones. Remember Stereo was a big thing back then, so people may have thought it wouldn't play on a mono player.

I've tracked down a spare CED player if it's any use to y ...

That's probably the best idea, yes. You can get them fairly cheap on eBay after all....

Let me know when and if you want to off-load your broken player!

If it is that that's broken then you'll need to somehow replace the phototransistor or photodiode. The LED will almost certainly be fine.

I can't really help much more - Tom might be able to (the a ...

There's basically three options as I see it -
1) the sensor is dead. Most likely.
2) The connection between the sensor and the controlling IC is dead - if it goes through a transistor then this is ...

That's very strange. I'm sure there was something like that on mine. It was a little black nobbly thing raised from the PCB (on the arm side, of course), with a slot that the arm passed through. I rem ...

If I remember correctly, there's something on the cartridge that goes through the light sensor...if I'm right about that, you could try lifting the PCB, pressing Play and then putting some paper or so ...

That makes sense....

You're not running this with the PCB lifted up are you? Because from memory there's a light sensor on the PCB which stops the arm, so when the PCB is lifted it'll keep going fo ...

The loading belt may be bad, which would cause the disc not to be retrieved correctly (this happened in mine) but the big red belt should be ok, as it's serrated, isn't it? In other words it should gr ...

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That's what happens when there's an obstruction for some reason. If you press Reset while the head is in transit to the edge of the disc, you'll get the same sound as it tries to push the head ...

This was a fantastic lot... I only bid up to just over £70, which would usually be plenty.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT&item=310116648859

I've ...

Hi everybody,

I've noticed that there's still no rarity listing for PAL CED titles, only NTSC ones. Now obviously that's nothing majorly detrimental for most sane people, but for people like me I l ...

Service manuals are very different beasts to owner's manual.. and very much harder to find!

I think we should archive all manuals on this site, to be honest; as the machines get older they'll need ...

The operating guide is all I have.... are you sure there is another manual? It seems to have everything in it that I'd expect from a manual....

We're talking about the same 8-page fold-out thing ye ...

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I need an NTSC CED player to play a CED disc I have, but I don't want too much of a Frankenstein power supply for it... hence I was wondering if there are any NTSC CED players that can cope wit ...

As it happens, I do have my manual for my Hitachi VIP-201P somewhere - I presume that's the one you have. However, I don't want to part with it. I can scan it for you though if you like?

For that m ...

I would love to have been able to see how digitally-mastered CED's would have looked.

That's something I share with you.

Look at how LaserDiscs increased in quality from the late 70's to when th ...

I did a little more investigation last night....

The film I'd watched which particularly suffered was Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which is probably to be fair the worst case scenario - the ...

I'm still 21 but I've been that age for 11 years now instead of 9...

Hi everybody,

I recently got a 'new' stylus for my trusty Hitachi VIP201P (£15 off eBay - not bad) and I've been doing comparisons between the 'new' one - which has had an unknown amount of use - a ...

Hi,

Many of you on here probably also have an interest in records too, so you may know....

What would happen if you put a CED on a record cleaning machine? These are basically turntables that ro ...

You'd probably get more interest if you hadn't just told us you got the lot for nothing!

As it is I personally was thinking that you'd got a pretty good score until I read the $300 bit, at which po ...

'City'? It's not that big. Smile

And it hasn't changed at all, really. Which is good as it means it's still mostly safe to walk around without fear of being mugged or blown up or something like the rest ...

Heh.. it's not. but living in Aberystwyth I know far too many students to call myself 30. Smile

I just refuse to grow and live a real life. Smile

I'm 21. I have been for the last 9 years.....