CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

[Alchemy]

Is there a definitive answer on the rarity listing that Tom has assigned to the discs?
Are they based on factory produced numbers (does that even exist)
Or is more of 'gut feel' or somewhere in between?

according to our latest group buy- Blue Thunder is so common they must have been given away with the players
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SGT-200, CLD-79
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[Beetlescott]

[Alchemy]

Since Dean has 10 players and probably only 1 copy of Blue Thunder..... just tryin to help
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[deantjeep]

Unfortunately, I have 2 copies of Blue Thunder already...

[Beetlescott]

[Alchemy]

I have a single copy, but then again I only have 1 player, must keep the balance
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[Beetlescott]

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[Jesse Skeen]

A few years ago he sent out a list of titles and asked people to mark which ones they had, and the rarity was judged from that. Don't know how accurate it was- I wish I knew how many of each title were really made. On Golden Pond turned out to be the most common title I think- I heard it also sold the most copies overall.
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[Alchemy]

I was looking over the main site last night and saw there is a poll you can fill out, whether or not anybody is adding to the knowledge base or not though....

even going off the 80,000 he had when he started to figuring- scientifically or not, 80k seems a small drop in the bucket to me.

What's always amazing to me is that nobody ever tracked sales and kept copies?? If you do a run of say 1k discs as an initial offering, the information has to flow back to the managers "oh, the southwest likes this movie- let's make more"

The great mysteries of life? Shouldn't be that hard, maybe Wikileaks has the information?
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SGT-200, CLD-79
http://bcw.utnij.net <--- CED/LD collection

[7jlong]

Oh, I'm sure they kept track of sales at the time. I think the problem is likely that when RCA pulled the plug on Selectavision they probably dumped the bulk of the day-to-day paperwork, for it really served no practical purpose for them anymore. The failure of CED was such a crippling embarrassment it wouldn't surprise me if they expunged as much of it as possible, especially once GE took over and broke up the company.

To this day it does not even appear anywhere on their website.

I think the best shot might be looking up old articles in something like Google's news archives. Unfortunately a lot of those articles are pay-per-view, though the enterprising might be able to track them down by other means.