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Topic: Christmas gift from Tom Howe |
cedmagic
Replies: 5
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Forum: General Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2022 7:29 pm Subject: Update address |
Matthew:
You can email your full name and new address to me at nagitpo @ gmail dot com. This is a change from the old address tied to the cedmagic domain which was being heavily spammed. |
Topic: CED Player and Discs in movie trailer for 8-BIT Christmas |
cedmagic
Replies: 3
Views: 5885
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Forum: General Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2021 3:12 pm Subject: CED Player and Discs in movie trailer for 8-BIT Christmas |
Check out this trailer for 8-BIT Christmas which premiers tomorrow on HBO Max. There's an SFT100 player sitting under the Nintendo Entertainment System early in the trailer. And at the 2:20 mark you c ... |
Topic: selecta.vision to access CED Magic |
cedmagic
Replies: 2
Views: 5494
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Forum: General Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2021 2:51 am Subject: RE: disco.vision |
I didn't register disco.vision, but discovision.com is registered to Pioneer, so that company was likely given the new domain. |
Topic: Fraternity Vacation UPC {16476085090} isn't in the database |
cedmagic
Replies: 2
Views: 5569
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Forum: General Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2021 4:19 am Subject: Incorrect Manufacturer Number on Fraternity Vacation |
Good catch on that typo which has existed in the title database since 1996. There are 779 titles with the number 76476 for RCA, but only 8 titles with the number 16476 for New World Video. I likely ty ... |
Topic: selecta.vision to access CED Magic |
cedmagic
Replies: 2
Views: 5494
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Forum: General Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2021 2:20 am Subject: selecta.vision to access CED Magic |
I've been given this domain for the new .VISION extension compliments of Network Solutions. The registration service happened to notice the similarity of selectavision.com to this new extension. So th ... |
Topic: Missing from Databse: Alien CBS/FOX |
cedmagic
Replies: 19
Views: 15620
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Forum: General Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2021 7:03 pm Subject: Searching CED Title Database |
Thanks for posting all the pictures of your collection! The title list also includes the UPC check sum digit with each listing:
http://cedmagic.com/home/upc.html
To search the database use Ctrl- ... |
Topic: Thanks, Tom |
cedmagic
Replies: 6
Views: 6483
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Forum: General Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2021 5:53 am Subject: SelectaVision VideoDisc Koozie |
Thanks for the feedback on the Koozie beverage holder. This picture explains why the substrate color is gray.
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Topic: 25th Anniversary of CED Magic |
cedmagic
Replies: 7
Views: 10902
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Forum: General Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 4:31 pm Subject: 25th Anniversary of CED Magic |
Twenty-five years ago on the day after Thanksgiving was when the first page of CED Magic went up. It had a hand-drawn image from MacDraw Pro of the CED engineering logo that persists to the present da ... |
Topic: Richard Sonnenfeldt 1979 CED VideoDisc Demonstration |
cedmagic
Replies: 6
Views: 9874
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Forum: General Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2020 4:01 pm Subject: RE: Surviving Prototype Equipment? |
Years ago I asked Richard Sonnenfeldt that very question, but he had none of the prototype players. He did have an SFT100 and small collection of discs, but it was a regular production player. |
Topic: Richard Sonnenfeldt 1979 CED VideoDisc Demonstration |
cedmagic
Replies: 6
Views: 9874
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Forum: General Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:16 pm Subject: Richard Sonnenfeldt 1979 CED VideoDisc Demonstration |
Technology writer John Chittock interviews RCA Vice President Richard Sonnenfeldt in 1979, including demonstrations of both old and new prototype CED VideoDisc players. This is the complete 36-minute ... |
Topic: RCA model SKT 265 question |
cedmagic
Replies: 8
Views: 6243
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Forum: General Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:52 pm Subject: RCA model SKT 265 question |
Here's another CED military tie-in from CED Digest Vol. 8 No. 3
January 22, 1983:
* The U.S.S. Ticonderoga, the first RCA AEGIS-equipped guided missile cruiser
is commissioned after having been c ... |
Topic: RCA model SKT 265 question |
cedmagic
Replies: 8
Views: 6243
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Forum: General Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 4:37 pm Subject: RE: Milton Blackstone |
Yes, he led an impressive life. I wasn't aware of his accomplishments during the half-hour I spent at his house. There were about 20 players there based on the way they were stacked up in SKT200 boxes ... |
Topic: RCA model SKT 265 question |
cedmagic
Replies: 8
Views: 6243
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Forum: General Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2020 3:12 am Subject: RE: SKT265 CED Player |
The SKT265 shown in the CED Player Guide was obtained on a road trip to San Diego in 1993, with stops at used record stores in Sacramento, San Francisco, and LA on the way down there. I placed a CEDs ... |
Topic: Portland's King of LaserDiscs |
cedmagic
Replies: 2
Views: 3046
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Forum: General Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2020 1:53 am Subject: Portland's King of LaserDiscs |
Here's an article about local LaserDisc collector and dealer Chuck Legg. His house looks something like mine except it's full of LaserDiscs rather than CEDs:
https://www.portlandmercury.com/film/20 ... |
Topic: Samsung SV100 CED VideoDisc Player |
cedmagic
Replies: 1
Views: 2599
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Forum: General Posted: Sat May 16, 2020 1:45 pm Subject: Samsung SV100 CED VideoDisc Player |
The Samsung SV100 CED player announced in the June 1982 issue of Video Review. This player was an RCA SGT100 with the housing customized for Samsung, and the player was never marketed. The reason for ... |
Topic: Mostek MK3870 and MK3874 CED Microprocessors |
cedmagic
Replies: 0
Views: 4171
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Forum: General Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 7:15 pm Subject: Mostek MK3870 and MK3874 CED Microprocessors |
The microprocessor at left is the Mostek MK3870 found in all F/G CED players. It was mask-programmed at manufacture to contain the system control assembler code that defines the operation of the CED p ... |
Topic: New Source for F/G Servo Drive Belts |
cedmagic
Replies: 4
Views: 6453
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Forum: General Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2020 11:09 pm Subject: New Source for F/G Servo Drive Belts |
Stock FRX2.0 belts installed on the servo motor of F/G players oftentimes will not allow the motor to spin-up unless they have been pre-stretched. This can require weeks or months of stretching, and t ... |
Topic: The CED Patents Table does not work |
cedmagic
Replies: 1
Views: 3138
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Forum: General Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2020 9:27 am Subject: Delphion Links in Patent table |
The first column of the table that originally linked to Delphion has been fixed. The Delphion Network itself is long gone - their business model collapsed when the Patent and Trademark Office got its ... |
Topic: Does any one have a speadsheet form of the ced database. |
cedmagic
Replies: 1
Views: 3193
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Forum: General Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 5:34 am Subject: CED titles and UPCs in Excel |
CED Magic has an Excel workbook with the titles in Column E and the corresponding UPCs in Column F:
http://www.cedmagic.com/software-downloads/cedmagic-macro/cedmagic-macro.html
This is an Excel ... |
Topic: The Christmas present came... |
cedmagic
Replies: 8
Views: 6965
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Forum: General Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2019 11:34 am Subject: CED Magic 2019 Christmas Item |
Merry Christmas all, and thanks for the feedback on the snowflake multitool! I arranged these as a skirt around a tabletop Christmas tree before mailing them out. The picture emphasizes the silver and ... |
Topic: Richard Klinger with SGT200 and Disney Characters |
cedmagic
Replies: 3
Views: 4087
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Forum: General Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2019 6:10 pm Subject: Richard Klinger with SGT200 and Disney Characters |
Check out his picture on this page newly-added to Who's Who:
http://www.cedmagic.com/mem/whos-who/klinger-richard.html |
Topic: Removal of four titles from the UK CED Title Database |
cedmagic
Replies: 9
Views: 6868
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Forum: General Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 12:50 am Subject: Removal of four titles from the UK CED Title Database |
I'm planning on removing these four titles from the PAL/UK listing and have them on the VaporWare list only:
Funny Girl {77080420394}
Glen Campbell Live {77080445021}
Kid Creole and the Coconut ... |
Topic: Questions about a VHD player. |
cedmagic
Replies: 28
Views: 24378
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Forum: General Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2019 1:10 pm Subject: RE: VHD |
I haven't done much with VHD since buying my modest collection back in 2002, but it looks like things have gone up in price - the entire Star Wars Trilogy was about $20 back then. But shipping costs a ... |
Topic: Sears going the way of Wards |
cedmagic
Replies: 1
Views: 2426
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Forum: General Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2018 4:10 am Subject: Sears going the way of Wards |
The Sears news from today and the Montgomery Ward news from 18 years ago sound eerily similar:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/15/business/sears-bankruptcy/index.html
http://www.cedmagic.com/museum/ ... |
Topic: Free Discs and Players for Pickup in Bedford, Virginia |
cedmagic
Replies: 15
Views: 10107
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Forum: General Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:17 pm Subject: Free Discs and Players for Pickup in Bedford, Virginia |
Philip has this stuff to give away, but you have to pick it all up. His email address is in the pasted information below:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ... |
Topic: CED Magic Holiday Item for 2017 |
cedmagic
Replies: 0
Views: 3950
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Forum: General Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:06 pm Subject: CED Magic Holiday Item for 2017 |
Taking this topic out of the announcement category.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ... |
Topic: New in Box Dimensia Components Available |
cedmagic
Replies: 0
Views: 4305
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Forum: General Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2018 4:40 pm Subject: New in Box Dimensia Components Available |
Received this email from Jim and am passing it on the CED Forum. If you are interested, he is in Indianapolis and can be reached at this email address:
jim.mckalip@comcast.net
>>>>&g ... |
Topic: Video Store Demise and a Survival Story |
cedmagic
Replies: 4
Views: 5890
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Forum: General Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:40 am Subject: Video Store Demise and a Survival Story |
Here's an interesting article on the demise of yet another video rental store (in Canada) with some reminiscing about CED thrown in:
http://www.ladysmithchronicle.com/opinion/who-doesnt-miss-the-gr ... |
Topic: Born Free [RCA] {07647603020} Not in Database? |
cedmagic
Replies: 4
Views: 3913
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Forum: General Posted: Mon Apr 24, 2017 4:08 pm Subject: UPC has been corrected on Born Free |
Thanks for pointing out that typo. When typing up the CED Title Database back in 1996 it looks like I entered the value for "Boogey Man" twice in the UPC field instead of typing the correct ... |
Topic: The Throwback Machine |
cedmagic
Replies: 1
Views: 2192
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Forum: General Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 2:38 am Subject: The Throwback Machine |
A humorous article on CED has been posted on a blog called The Throwback Machine:
http://jg-tc.com/blogs/throwbackmachine/ |
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