CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

Beetlescott · Joined: 03 Oct 2010 Posts: 2085

I have about 900 titles in my library at this point. I have never planned on having all of them. One reason is some of them are soft DELETED, and I don't care for any kind of DELETED. I know that of the discs I have, there are some I won't ever watch. Like I don't plan to exercise with Jane Fonda.....
I have seen some of the guys show pictures of discs they have purchased, that didn't look like they would play, some of them a bit tattered.
I'm just curious, who plans to collect the entire the catalog, and, do they have to be in a certain condition? I know I have seen Jesse say he was looking to upgrade a certain title, so I guess if you do get them all, you would always be looking to get a better copy of certain titles. So what are your plans??

ketonic_dude · Joined: 20 Jul 2012 Posts: 448 Location: Mankato, MN

Great question Scott. My main goal in collecting them all is to first get every disc, condition is not really an issue right now. Once I get the disc, then, depending on if it is a title I care about, I might look to upgrade the quality. I have seen some discs where the quality is just not there and the price is too high, which I will pass on even though I don't have it yet. But if it's a disc I don't have yet and it has a torn label or plays crappy but is only like $.25 cents. I will buy it just to be able to mark it off on my list, but then once I have every discs I will start to look for better qualities.

SelectaVision420 · Joined: 25 Mar 2012 Posts: 1204 Location: Hartford

Beetlescott · Joined: 03 Oct 2010 Posts: 2085

I keep saying i'm not collecting them buy I keep on buying them.

Vercus · Joined: 06 Oct 2013 Posts: 12 Location: Pennsylvania

I know this is an older thread, but I had a question. In the first post, beetlescott mentions "Soft Deleted" when referring to some discs. I've never heard that term before. What does it mean?

Thanks,
Jon
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Rixrex · Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 1222

I think the term "delected" in capitals pops in when certain words are used and happens automatically, eg, covering vulgar words or those that have certain connotations.

I think he was referring to a genre of film that starts with SOFT and the last word sounds like corn, but the board programming stamped DELETED over it.

Vercus · Joined: 06 Oct 2013 Posts: 12 Location: Pennsylvania

Gotcha..LOL.

Thanks for filling me in. Guess I should have figured that out..LOL!

-Jon
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analog.tv · Joined: 31 May 2004 Posts: 26 Location: Greenbelt, Maryland

I will "collect" titles I don't have, give away or trash titles I don't want. I ran across a vaporware title TULIPS and sent it to TOM quite some time ago. There are approx 1200 titles upstairs, almost all playable and only a couple of duplicates: Woodstock and the hard to find "o" title. I've been into this since the mid-nineties. They play very well on favorite vintage televisions. CRAIG

SelectaVision420 · Joined: 25 Mar 2012 Posts: 1204 Location: Hartford

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Rixrex · Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 1222

Yeah, surprising isn't it?

I bought a copy of Zombie that had a poor case and warped disc, and kept it, just to have it fill in the CED slot where it was missing. I restored the case, and the disc will play after the first 5 minutes skip past.

But it doesn't matter much because I watch the laserdisc widescreen special edition of Zombie if I ever want to see it.

Beetlescott · Joined: 03 Oct 2010 Posts: 2085