CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

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.

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 ...

I didn't register disco.vision, but discovision.com is registered to Pioneer, so that company was likely given the new domain.

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 ...

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 ...

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- ...

Thanks for the feedback on the Koozie beverage holder. This picture explains why the substrate color is gray.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Check out his picture on this page newly-added to Who's Who:

http://www.cedmagic.com/mem/whos-who/klinger-richard.html

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 ...

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 ...

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/ ...

Philip has this stuff to give away, but you have to pick it all up. His email address is in the pasted information below:

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Taking this topic out of the announcement category.

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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

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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 ...

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 ...

A humorous article on CED has been posted on a blog called The Throwback Machine:

http://jg-tc.com/blogs/throwbackmachine/