CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

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DECODING THE RCA 9 DIGIT SERIAL NUMBER ON CED PLAYERS

The 9 di ...

Thank you! That should be posted in a FAQ page or somewhere easy to find on here. I'm sure a lot of people will want it in the next year or two.

This looks great. I'll tune in!

Very cool! You should ask for help on the Facebook page, which is much more active. But I know I have come across other little tidbits from people who worked at the plants in these forums and scattere ...

I believe when I was first researching CED players on this site there was a way to find out their manufacturing date by serial number. I remember thinking I should give my machines 40th birthday parti ...

There is a thread on here, or maybe it is in the general advice somewhere, about why they play better on the second go. One reason is that the material may stiffen after many years and you are revivin ...

The machines were only stacked like that for a minute or two, as soon as everything was inside I went through the pile to see what I got making notes on each machine as I tried to play it. I've gotten ...

I've probably watched about 100 CED movies now and tested a bunch of discs beyond that. So far only one had a "Coming soon" preview. It was Children of the Corn. I tend to only watch movies ...

I can venture a guess on the UK titles.

The US title rarity grades were devised from listings of items for sale from various US sources available to the compiler. Theoretically similar for sale da ...

I read the description of how the rarity grades were added to the title database. Genius and a whole lot of work! That was twenty years ago though and relied on creative sampling of information availa ...

Lynx: I won't be selling players for awhile but I'll remember you when I do. I lucked out in that the whole lot was being transferred from Buffalo to NYC past my house so I got delivery of it. It fill ...

I've been going through the movies which have fully taken over my house. I'm going to separate out all the duplicates and get rid of those first. What's great about this is that I absolutely need to g ...

I made a ridiculous haul today. A repairman in the Buffalo/Niagara Falls area's estate. He also had hundreds, really hundreds, of Marantz turntables and other pricey audio gear.

By some of the not ...

Fun. I can understand CED players, even if I can't fix them, but VHS looks like a whole extra level of complexity when I open one up.

I now have two RCA VBT-200 VHS players, the first commercial V ...

Dang I've looked all over the repair sections and charts for belts and never saw that player guide page, thanks. I do want one that would remain easily fixable. Playing well is important to me. Stereo ...

I'm in Utica, New York.

A month in I'm still watching movies pretty regularly. It is partly because I got a really good haul of sci-fi, some of which I'd never seen. It's strange. On streaming serv ...

Hi everyone,

I have around 15,000 78 RPM records and 10,000 LPs. Along the way to those numbers I accumulated a handful of CEDs that I was always fascinated with. All I really knew was that they we ...