CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

[vintagerelic]

Hello, I just recently purchased a brand new Sanyo VDR3000 player, I was wondering if anyone can tell me how good of a player it happens to be, I was reading something about it having comb filtering is this true?, how does this player measure up against some of the other players? any help would be appreicated thanks.

[Beetlescott]

[vintagerelic]

Thanks so much for welcoming me, I own 7 total CED movies 5 came with the new player Saturday Night Fever, Goldfinger, From Russia With Love, Dr. Zhivago, & Logan's Run, I just purchased Halloween II, and III Today Im Stoked.[/b][/i]

[Beetlescott]

OH Man! I have been looking for Halloween II! Good for you! You got it at the right time too. I had Halloween II on CED years ago, I remember when it came out, it was one of many "blue" discs I would get. You can read some of the od posts on here if you have any problems. I have about 60 movies and I'm going to be selling about 40 of them on Ebay, iin just a few days. If you want a list of what I have, shoot me an email to, Beetlescott@msn.com. Be sure and put CED in the subject line so it doesn't get lost in the junk!!!
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[vintagerelic]

Yea I got them both off Ebay yesterday $4.00 each for a total of $13.50 that includes shipping, so im looking forward to watching them when they arrive, my next goal is get the Friday the 13th movies on CED. [/b][/i]

[Beetlescott]

Yes, me too! I love the Friday movies and Halloween ones. I do have some I want to sell if you are interested, shoot me an email and I will make you a sweet deal. The ones I have do play, and I am going to list them on ebay soon. If I have any you want, I'll give you a deal:) Beetlescott@msn.com. How does you player play? Is it stero?
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[vintagerelic]

yea I will email you for the list of Friday the 13th's you have and your other listed stuff, I haven't received my player yet I'm waiting for it to arrive, I found a guy on Ebay he's gonna send me a Sanyo VDR3000 28 page Trouble shooting book for that CED player for $6.00 so Im happy with that he said the player was very rare and even more rare to find replacement parts so hopefully its a great working system, all I need now is Betamax and I will own every single video movie format, got HD-DVD (285, 2 Players), Blu-ray (93, 2 Players), 6 Head VCR (48 Movies & all Friday 13ths n Halloweens) DVD (320), Laserdisc player, (38 movies) and Sanyo VDR3000 (7 CED) lol there's all my formats, and its only a mono player but thats ok i'll splice it threw my 7 speaker surround system so I will get 3.5 speakers instead of one lol.

[ae.tc]

[vintagerelic]

well I do own Laserdisc its on the list, unless there's another laser format? and VHD was only released in japan from what ive read on it, since you know a lot maybe you can tell more bout VHD FORMAT, look forward to hearing back from you take care.

[Beetlescott]

Sounds like you have a start to an awesome collection of formats! I have VCR, DVD, BluRay, CED. I went to a Vendors Mall and found a magazine rack that will be perfect for CEDs! it's one of those that is tapered down, and has small slots for DVDs/Mags/ whatever. I will take a pic of it and show it off when I get it painted and fixed up. You might be able to get parts for your player from CEDpro, or CEDatum. The latter even cleans and rebuilds your stylus, so im pretty sure you can find what you might need from there. I bought my first CED player from a guy who adverdisted his player as "plays movies" only to find that it really didn't. I mean, it was so snowy you could n't see! I am getting ready to send the stylus to CEDatum to see if it can be cleaned or rebuilt. Good luck to you with yours! These things are so much fun!!! By the way, what is VHD?
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[ae.tc]

[Beetlescott]

[vintagerelic]

VHD would be cool to own, but all I can find out is it was only released for consumers in Japan, JVC decided not to sell them in USA, ohwell maybe one day I can find a player and movies, I know they are ntsc format but all released for Japan so have no idea what language tracks they have, thanks for the LINK.

[Beetlescott]

[Jesse Skeen]

I have a VHD player, but its loading mechanism broke after I watched side 1 of the one disc I have (Rambo), and now I can't get it working again. The disc is now scratched up.

I also have 4 Cartrivision machines, which were the very first home videotape format to have pre-recorded movies- it came out in 1972, a good 3 years before the first Betamax! I can't get any of them to work though- if anyone in the Sacramento area knows how to fix these, let me know and if you can get 2 or more of them working I'll let you have one! This was only on the market for about a year. In the 60s there were a few reel-to-reel video recorders for home use, but they were expensive and most only were in black and white- I heard Elvis Presley had one.
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Videodisc and stereo sound- there's no better value around!

[Beetlescott]

[vintagerelic]

Well I currently only have 7 CED's Beetlescott, I'm waiting for my player to arrive the jackwagon on ebay is lagging on shipping me the item even though I paid for it on Monday the 18th, he said he checked and hadn't received payment yet bullsh*t I got Confirmation from both Ebay and Paypal so he's just one of those sellers who's lazy and a liar so know I have my doubts the player is actually new, Thats cool bout those other video format jesse, unfortunatly i cant help ya but wish you luck.

[Jesse Skeen]

The first Beta VCR in the US came out in late 1975 as a console with the VCR and a TV together- the first stand-alone Betamaxes came out in early 1976 with only one recording speed that got you one hour per tape. The first VHS machines weren't out until 1977, but their tapes were always longer than Beta and when video rentals took off there were tons more titles available on VHS than Beta (rentals on CED and laserdisc were too few to count!)
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Videodisc and stereo sound- there's no better value around!

[Beetlescott]

[deantjeep]

I think what makes this a fun hobby is that it is an obscure video format and not a lot of people out there know little if nothing about it. It's kinda like our own little secret.

I just wished that people took better care of the discs and sleeves. Some of those sleeves are pretty bad and the discs could make you cry if it fouled up your player.

[Beetlescott]

x2! I found a girl who had a bunch of movies and I bought some of them, and everyone looked like niew! She told me she gets her discs from the same place, but they all look pristine! Plus, I'm sure some of you veterns already know, but a place online called Jays Recycling, has many new ones....http://stores.ebay.com/A-Jays-Video-Recyclery The movies I bought havent come yet, but they are new in cello!!!!
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[vintagerelic]

Yea, I bought a 23 Page Troubleshooting guide for my Sanyo VDR3000 player from Jay's, its cool informative only problem is he photo copied it so some words didn't come through the printing process, but thats ok I get the jest of it anyway, I'm still waiting for my player to arrive Beetlescott, damn guy is lagging big time on shipping, or he shipped it out either Friday 22nd, or today 25th but is one of those sellers on Ebay that doesn't tell it's been shipped or mark it shipped *Im bummed.

[Beetlescott]

So have you figured anything out for your player yet? I do have a manual for my SGT250 and if anyone wants me to copy it, shoot me an email and I'll be happy to copy it and send it to you. Beetlescott@msn.com. Be sure and put CED in the subject line so you don't get swept away to junk!!!!
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[vintagerelic]

I took cover off and side brackets holding turntable and pulled up on it and bringing back down and it unlocked from being stuck all these years of sitting around, and I loaded a disc it began to spin, and then it brought over stylus and started playing disc, I've always been able to mess with electronic stuff and get it running great , I did same thing to may old nes system I bought, only now need to get a better copies of halloween 2, & 3 they arent in good condition lots of speckels and bad audio.

[Beetlescott]

[vintagerelic]

well the halloween 2, & 3 disc are very scratched bro, I opened up caddy n looked at disc safely and they both are scratched, and I played From Russia With Love and its got no scratches at all and the disc played perfectly no jumping or speckles, plus the player was brand new so the stylus wasnt even used, I talked to a buddy of the guy who does repairs on CED Stylus's and he said thats coming from bad discs and all disc would play jumpy n speckled if the stylus is bad, but I will still have to buy another stylus just for backup, thanks for your help beetlescott, have a good one take care.

[Beetlescott]

[quote="vintagerelic"]well the halloween 2, & 3 disc are very scratched bro, I opened up caddy n looked at disc safely and they both are scratched, and I played From Russia With Love and its got no scratches at all and the disc played perfectly no jumping or speckles, plus the player was brand new so the stylus wasnt even used, I talked to a buddy of the guy who does repairs on CED Stylus's and he said thats coming from bad discs and all disc would play jumpy n speckled if the stylus is bad, but I will still have to buy another stylus just for backup, thanks for your help beetlescott, have a good one take care.[/quot]

Well, if that's the case, you are in business!!! Sorry about the bad discs! You never know what your going to get when you buy discs from people. I have had the best luck with Jays Recyling on Ebay than anywhere else. I bought 5 brand new, still in the cello wrap from him last week, and the movies, so far are nearly skip free!!!! So good luck!!!! Keep us posted on how it goes!! I just bought my third SGT250 today, I'm going to fix it up and sell it pretty soon. The great think about these players is they are stereo with rca out plugs, and they have a remote!!! If you do decide you want another one, the one I have for sale, is on EBay for a low bbid of 49. bucks complete with 4 free movies!!!!!!
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