CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

[FilmProspector]

Hi fellow CED lovers. My name is Steve and I just wanted to introduce myself. I am new to collecting CEDs but I've notieced this group is pretty passionate about their feelings toward the CED format in general, so I wanted to share why I love this format and why I am here.

When I was a wee little lad growing up on the mean streets of East Tennessee I wasn't fortunate enough to have a lot of money. I can even remember my parents putting a VCR in layaway and it ended up costing them like $800 before even got to start renting movies. We never owned any films but rented the shit out of them.

That being said, I did however have a rich cousin, his parents were always buying the cutting edge of technology and rubbing it in our faces. It would really just piss me right off that my butthole cousin had everything, even a CED player. I want to think it cost them like 500 or 600 for the player itself when they bought it for cash, and they had over a dozen films which were like $30 each I think. I can remember D.C. Cab, Porky's and Police Academy very well, but not many others. Even at this time, even renting those films on VHS was hard because back then the video store only had one copy and they were very popular.

I was so pissed that he had this stuff, and I had to beg him to let me watch Porky's, he didn't even want me to watch D.C. cab so I had to get up early one morning to watch it before he woke up when I spent the night. I was around 9 or 10 years old mind you so these films were like the holy grail to me, seeing boobies in Porky's was a treat I have never forgotten and who doesn't love Mr. T?! But still, I was very jealous of my cousin and he knew it, and he lorded it over me, he also had every Star Wars toy and every Nintendo game too, I don't know if anybody here can truly understand what I'm saying, or if any of you had a cousin like this, but he really did have it all and would dangle it in front of me like a carrot to a poor pathetic donkey.

I spent years trying to own just a single VHS, my first VHS I owned was Tomboy by the way, if anyone knows of that film. But my cousin just kept on truckin'. To this day he's still a butthole and has a lot of stuff, but it took me nearly 30 years to catch up to him on the CED front. I now own my first CED player, a Zenith VP2000 that I bough from someone on this board. It works flawlessly and I love it soooo much. I even have about 20 CEDs so far. With my favorites being D.C. Cab and A Pirate Movie.

I have also started collecting CEDs from an artistic standpoint, I'm not sure if you guys have noticed but some of the covers of these things are really cool. Case in point, The Gauntlet with Clint Eastwood, very badast. I've started putting them on my walls at home for decoration, and if I want to watch one I just grab it off the wall and slap it into the CED player. So finally, this is where I'm at fellow CED friends, I'm in the mix with the rest of you and starting to build my collection. Also, if anyone has a really good quality copy of Rhinestone, message me, I want one with a good label, I've seen one on eBay but the label is torn. It's for my CED wall and I can't have a shabby wall.

Thanks for reading my post btw, I know it's long and stupid but finding a group like this is one in a million, so I'm making the most of it.