CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

[dumbchemist]

I was wondering how many forum readers were ever a member of the CED of the month club that ran from about 1982 until the demise of the format?

I joined it in 1984. It was great for me as I live a good hours drive from any store that sold CED's. The club worked in the usual manner: you got a card in the mail. If you wanted the movie of the month, you threw out the card and the movie came in about 2 weeks. If you did not want the movie, you checked a box on the card and mailed it back.

The club was the source for many of my CED's: all 3 star wars movies, Coccon, Alien, Ghostbusters, The Black Hole, A Passage to India, The King and I, etc. I also bought a lot of movies from Crazy Eddies ( remember them) when I worked in New Jersey. Those were very low priced.
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[Beetlescott]

I think I remember the offer to join the club, but I had 3 major places in our small city, (Marion, N.C.) that sold/rented the discs. I rented some, but I was always afraid that someone who had rented the disc, let their child smear peanut butter on the disc or someone didn't take care of the disc because it was a rental. There was another place (furniture store) that if you rented a movie, it was 4.00 for a week. If you loved the movie, you just kept paying the rent, and when the disc was paid for, you stopped paying! I bought several that way. The other place had an "exchange" program where you could swap 2 of your used discs for 1 new one! I got some that way too. When we moved back to TN we couldn't find one single place! The closest place was 45 miles away.
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[dumbchemist]

I belonged to the Laserdisc club and the DVD club at one time. The Laserdisc club died when no new titles were being released. The DVD club died because their prices were too high. Walmart and other places could provide DVD's at much lower prices than the DVD club could and you still had to pay shipping costson top of their high price.
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1-SJT-400. 2-SJT-200 & 1-SJT-090.
CLD-D406, CLD-980.
MDP-600, MDP-MR1.

[Jesse Skeen]

Most of the magazine ads for Columbia House showed Tootsie on CED. There were marks next to available titles saying which ones were or weren't available on CED- in 1984 after the players had been discontinued they had a note saying something like "Future availability of CED format uncertain."

Columbia House's music club always had albums made just for them, they weren't exactly the same as the copies you'd find in a store. Because of this, they were able to offer 8-track tapes for several years after the major record companies had stopped making them!

One of my friends was in their CED club and said at the end you could buy a grab-bag of titles for some low price. I was in the laserdisc club which was a good deal for a while since laserdiscs were so overpriced and sometimes hard to find in stores. Their 'final blowout' was absolutely pathetic though- a short list of lame titles for too much; by then I was getting laserdiscs cleared out at Tower for $9.99 which was a low price for the time.
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