CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

spike · Joined: 09 Apr 2009 Posts: 2

Hi, everyone! First time caller, long time listener. Been a big CED/Discovision/obsolete video geek for a long time and dipped in and out of here to read sporadically, but now I actually have a reason to post.

Recently my local Goodwill received a bounty of CED discs, as you'll see here: http://twitpic.com/304qf

Sadly, no machine to go along with them, they're all used and Goodwill's asking a grossly inflated price (imho) of $5 per disc, but I wanted to ask if there was anything I should be on the lookout for? I didn't spy any of the holy grails (Jedi, Youngblood et al), but if there's a particular movie that someone's after, I'd be glad to go root through and see if I can find it.

xorcize · Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 21

I reckon that your local Goodwill is located near Buckhannon, West Virginia?

ae.tc · Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Posts: 72 Location: Los Angeles

$5 is very high for Goodwill CEDs.. they look to be in good shape 'tho
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spike · Joined: 09 Apr 2009 Posts: 2

betamax75 · Joined: 28 Sep 2009 Posts: 3 Location: Melrose Park, IL

I just purchased a few CEDs from a Goodwill store in the Chicago area. They were sold for $.99 each.

Jesse Skeen · Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 532 Location: Sacramento, CA

I have every title and think I paid an average of $5 for each one- lowest was 50 cents, highest was $200 for Memories Of Videodisc- most I paid for a consumer title was $20 for Hard Day's Night, since it was in the pre-internet days and I was so surprised it existed (it was the only title MPI ever put out on the format.) DVDs have completely spoiled everyone with brand-new copies of fairly recent stuff in high quality selling for under $5.

In 1994, a few months after I'd been collecting and decided that I wanted to try and get every title out there (didn't even know how many there were, I thought there were only about 500 but turned out to be a lot more than that), I ran a want ad for CEDs in a local paper that was handed out free and printed classified ads- don't think it's around anymore but it got me a few hundred discs before Ebay had come along. Only bad thing is I spent about my life's savings on them. One guy called me asking what I was paying, I told him about $5 each- he said "I was hoping to get $6", so I said "What condition are they in?" "A-1" he said. I scraped together what money I had and went over- covers weren't exactly great, but gave him $6 each. Couple weeks later tried to watch Eddie and the Cruisers, and it wouldn't play because the disc was WARPED! Don't remember who this guy was, but if you're out there, I don't like you. Twisted Evil

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