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  Topic: CED mentioned in RCA history
kfbkfb

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PostForum: General   Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2024 1:02 am   Subject: CED mentioned in RCA history
IIRC, the TED video disc system had color and was introduced in 1975.


Kirk Bayne
  Topic: CED mentioned in RCA history
kfbkfb

Replies: 3
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PostForum: General   Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2024 4:16 pm   Subject: CED mentioned in RCA history
https://www.rca.com/us_en/our-legacy-266-us-en

It seems RCA is trying to make some sort of a come back in the consumer electronics marketplace.


Kirk Bayne
  Topic: The 42nd anniversary of CED!
kfbkfb

Replies: 1
Views: 4575

PostForum: General   Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2023 11:02 pm   Subject: The 42nd anniversary of CED!
2023-04-04, the 39th anniversary of the announcement to end (RCA brand) CED player production.

I recall a short ABC TV news break news item the evening of 1984-04-04 that said RCA was phasing out t ...
  Topic: CED - some tech info
kfbkfb

Replies: 2
Views: 4904

PostForum: General   Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2022 12:43 am   Subject: CED - some tech info
In the early 1970s, when quadraphonic sound was popular, RCA planned to put discrete quadraphonic sound on the CED videodisc.

By 1981, quadraphonic sound was at a low point, but returned as Dolby S ...
  Topic: CED - some tech info
kfbkfb

Replies: 2
Views: 4904

PostForum: General   Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2022 11:56 pm   Subject: CED - some tech info
https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Archive-Audio/80s/Audio-1980-03.pdf#page=44
^^^
RCA Show SelectaVision Video Disc


https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Audio/Archive-Audio/8 ...
  Topic: The 41st anniversary of CED!
kfbkfb

Replies: 2
Views: 5098

PostForum: General   Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2022 9:21 pm   Subject: The 41st anniversary of CED!
I just remembered it is the 41st, I got out my SJT300, connected it to my newly reconfigured Dolby surround sound + 19" CRT TV basement "home theater" system.

Now watching the stereo ...
  Topic: Stars Wars was issued on CED
kfbkfb

Replies: 4
Views: 8579

PostForum: General   Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2021 11:05 am   Subject: Stars Wars was issued on CED
They use "time compression", no scenes are removed (the LaserDisc is the same way).

I don't know how advanced time compression technology was in the early 1980s, I've never compared my CE ...
  Topic: 40 Years Ago
kfbkfb

Replies: 2
Views: 4201

PostForum: General   Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2021 2:33 pm   Subject: 40 Years Ago
I played my Flash Gordon CED earlier today, my old Dolby Surround receiver provided good surround sound from the stereo audio from my SJT-300, the occasional "scratchy" sound of audio dropou ...
  Topic: 40 Years Ago
kfbkfb

Replies: 2
Views: 4201

PostForum: General   Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2021 10:35 pm   Subject: 40 Years Ago
I watched TV that Sunday (22nd) night just to see an RCA CED VideoDisc ad.

I finally did, later in 1981, I was at a video store and they were playing a music video CED w/SFT100.

A projection TV ...
  Topic: 1st CED VideoDisc Purchase 1981-03-11
kfbkfb

Replies: 0
Views: 4167

PostForum: General   Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 3:44 pm   Subject: 1st CED VideoDisc Purchase 1981-03-11
I had visited a local RCA dealer a few times to find out more about the CED videodisc system, while I was there on March 11, 1981, I asked if I could buy one of the discs prior to the official marketi ...
  Topic: Discrete Quadraphonic Audio on CED VideoDiscs
kfbkfb

Replies: 16
Views: 12696

PostForum: General   Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 1:19 am   Subject: Discrete Quadraphonic Audio on CED VideoDiscs
Stereo source material (including CED) can carry Dolby Surround
encoding (if there's a Dolby Stereo logo in the end credits) which
can be decoded with a Dolby Surround or Dolby Pro-Logic decoder.
...
  Topic: Discrete Quadraphonic Audio on CED VideoDiscs
kfbkfb

Replies: 16
Views: 12696

PostForum: General   Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2017 12:40 am   Subject: Discrete Quadraphonic Audio on CED VideoDiscs
CD-4 required both the record and stylus (line contact type)
to be kept clean to work properly (unfortunately, the public
wasn't trained to keep records and styli clean).

Louis Dorren (inventor o ...
  Topic: Discrete Quadraphonic Audio on CED VideoDiscs
kfbkfb

Replies: 16
Views: 12696

PostForum: General   Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:32 pm   Subject: Discrete Quadraphonic Audio on CED VideoDiscs
Excellent book, it covers the tortured path the RCA home video
system took from the idea to put Video + Audio on an LP sized disc
to the CED VideoDisc (almost no technical info, mainly stories
abou ...
  Topic: Discrete Quadraphonic Audio on CED VideoDiscs
kfbkfb

Replies: 16
Views: 12696

PostForum: General   Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 2:26 am   Subject: Discrete Quadraphonic Audio on CED VideoDiscs
Found a reference:

RCA and the VideoDisc:
the business of research
book:

Page 152: (status report in November 1972)

"Goal of four stereo channels: one achieved"


^^^
This fit ...
  Topic: Discrete Quadraphonic Audio on CED VideoDiscs
kfbkfb

Replies: 16
Views: 12696

PostForum: General   Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 1:36 am   Subject: Discrete Quadraphonic Audio on CED VideoDiscs
RCA introduced their Quadradisc (CD-4) system in mid-1972
which provided Discrete Quadraphonic Audio from compatible
(playable in Stereo and Mono) LP and 45 rpm vinyl records.

Around this time, R ...
  Topic: Digital Audio on CED VideoDiscs
kfbkfb

Replies: 3
Views: 4780

PostForum: General   Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 9:49 pm   Subject: Digital Audio on CED VideoDiscs
I found one reference to (probably PCM)
Digital Audio added to CED VideoDiscs:

1984-03 Videography Magazine Page 62:

[Jon] Clemens: We expect to put digital audio
on our discs, but we expect t ...
  Topic: Digital Audio on CED VideoDiscs
kfbkfb

Replies: 3
Views: 4780

PostForum: General   Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 2:19 am   Subject: Digital Audio on CED VideoDiscs
IIRC, just before RCA announced they were phasing out
CED, it was mentioned (I think in an interactive videodisc
publication) that RCA planned to add PCM Digital Audio to
CED VideoDiscs.

It's be ...
 
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