CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

Dang, that's a tough choice. Since the existing CED catalog is pretty broad, and since most new movies are awful, I'm gonna go with styli.

Still, that's tough since there are many older films I'd ...

I guess another way to put it is: is this a chicken/egg problem?

Is it skipping for some other reason and this motion of the motor is trying to correct it?

Or is the motion of the motor/wheel/b ...

So maybe that's the normal motion for that motor and wheel? Now that's darned interesting. It does, however, cause the playback to skip when it does move like that after a minute or so. I'll try to ge ...

Well I could try the tension on the stylus but this is happening with 3 different styli, all of which worked fine before this issue started when I played the scratched up disc.

I reckon as a last ...

So more on this problem.

So I finally took the top off the player and inspected that drive motor and belt. The belt is in great shape and appears to have the right tension, etc. I cleaned everythi ...

Well, aside from feeling foolish in a "I should have known better than to push a disc in without inspecting it" way, I found that my stylus won't work even after gently cleaning with alcohol ...

I think I broke a stylus in my player the other day by trying to play a VERY beat-up disc (completely foolish on my part - it was a disc I got off eBay that appeared to be from a public library long a ...

Well I only got a few of my old discs back, so only like a dozen, maybe?

Looking forward to the workshop in Indy in June - hoping to get some more!

My parents bought an SGT100 back in 1981 and I grew up watching movies on it. In 2005 I moved back to midwest and got the old player out of my parents' attic and had it fixed up by John Stevens. I mov ...

Found it! Thank you so much for your help!

Actually I'm not sure what the problem with the machine is. I put out a craigslist ad recently looking for anyone who had a CED player and I got a response from a guy who has an SJT090 that's he's tin ...

Hello all. Could anyone point me to a service manual for an SJT090? Thank you in advance!

Hello all!

I am a former CED collector and a scholar who has written about the history of the CED. The article can be found here: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/article/729335

The full citation is ...

Hello all. Forgive me for bumping this up to the top again but I am still hoping to find collectors and/or folks who were involved in RCA's development and production of the CED system for a paper I'm ...

Yes, the Graham book has been central to my research. It's a great resource, thank you! And yes, I've contacted John but have not heard back yet.

I would love to interview you if you're open to it ...

My name is Jimi Jones. I am a doctoral student at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am researching the history of the RCA Sele ...