CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

Beetlescott · Joined: 03 Oct 2010 Posts: 2144

What are your rarest CED treasures?? Some might just be rare to you. I recently acquired Zombie, which was one I sought for a while. I had a copy that the caddy looked rough, I sold it on Ebay for 20.00 (I'm not the person who can put crappy looking Discs on there for 100 bucks). Yesterday, I finally got a really nice one. It looks good and Plays well.
I got Great Entertainers & Aloha disc for Christmas. Found the second copy of Goonies I ever saw. I sold my first to blindfury!
Recently I acquired Savage Streets in a huge bunch of CEDs. Last Sunday night, I bought Memories of Videodisc, I can't wait until it gets here!!!!

So what are your titles??
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dumbchemist · Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 546 Location: Central New York

Out of my 156 CED's, the following are rated as VR on CEDmagic.com:

Academy Award Winners: Animated Short Films
Gidget
Jack and the Beanstalk
Little Prince: Next Stop Planet Earth
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer
Space Shuttle Mission Reports STS 5, 6 & 7

My CED inventory breaks down to:

21 Common
97 Uncommon
31 Rare
7 VR

I have not been able to get any ER discs yet. Maybe someday when the price is right and two protons collide near Neptune (sigh).
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ketonic_dude · Joined: 20 Jul 2012 Posts: 547 Location: Mankato, MN

I like that you added "some might just be rare to you" Scott. I think of some of my favourites as my rarest. My favourite movie of all time, Back to the Future. The Wild Life I hadn't know about until I watched the CED and that's one of my favs now. Just so many great titles to choose from. Such a great hobby.

SelectaVision420 · Joined: 25 Mar 2012 Posts: 1424 Location: Hartford

not that rare, but i treasure my sts 5,6,7 disc, im not even sure how many of the er/vr titles i have, but i dont have a title that nobody else has, i have a square edge white caddy flash gordon, but derreck found one in the wild too!
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blindfury420 · Joined: 26 Jan 2011 Posts: 1036

I too have a few of the square caddy discs' but I'd have to say my rarest for me is the story of O in cello or memories in cello!
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Beetlescott · Joined: 03 Oct 2010 Posts: 2144

I'm so thrilled! My Memories in cello just came this morning! I'm really wanting to remove the cello!!!! I also managed to trade Savage Streets for Story of O! I'm not sure which is the most rare, but I went for Story of O. [img]https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=848707531821574&set=gm.10152224044853796&type=1[/img]
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Beetlescott · Joined: 03 Oct 2010 Posts: 2144

I added a Service Disc to my collection.
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CEDvince · Joined: 23 Jun 2013 Posts: 74

To me, the rarest discs that I have are the Aloha Conference disc and NFL Football arcade disc.
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SelectaVision420 · Joined: 25 Mar 2012 Posts: 1424 Location: Hartford

analog.tv · Joined: 31 May 2004 Posts: 34 Location: Lafayette, Colorado

The rarest I've had was "TULIPS"....on the vaporware list. That was sent to Tom as thanks for keeping this website and interest in this format. CRAIG

wolfpacleader1986 · Joined: 16 Apr 2014 Posts: 4 Location: United States

I have Rocky IV which is listed as Very Rare on the CED Magic database

dumbchemist · Joined: 27 Oct 2011 Posts: 546 Location: Central New York

I recently got a copy of Volunteers starring Tom Hanks and John Candy copyrighted 1985 rated as VR. With the exception of magic marker writing on the edge of the caddy, the disc is in good to very good condition. I removed the magic marker using 91% isopropyl alcohol followed by soft scrub.
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CEDvince · Joined: 23 Jun 2013 Posts: 74

Brian Stearns · Joined: 02 Jan 2014 Posts: 23 Location: Needham,MA

I picked up Godzilla 1985 off of ebay for 9.00 no one else bidded

Its does not come up much

jeff7624 · Joined: 23 Feb 2014 Posts: 38 Location: United States

In my small collection my most rare disc is Fraternity Vacation. Thought it was a part of the Chevy Chase series until I watched it haha

Beetlescott · Joined: 03 Oct 2010 Posts: 2144

I have an idea that may be some fun. It's called DID YOU KNOW? and it is very simple. Come up with a fact that you have learned about this format. Something you think is unique. Okay, Here is my input.
DID YOU KNOW! The first four Tom Hanks movies is on CED?

It can be about trivial like mine or it can be something technical that will help us fanatics who would love to know more. So what do you know that you want to share????????????????
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Ced Collector · Joined: 14 Jul 2021 Posts: 65

Oh, this is a cool older thread. This needs to be revived! We need some photos of rare gems, guys!

I've got some rare ones.

How about a sealed copy of Thanks for the Memories?

I've got a sealed copy of bring the magic home:

Is this the last sealed copy of Interactive CED - Space Shuttle - Mission Reports STS 5, 6 & 7 remaining in the world?

Ever seen a copy of Zenith field service disc before?

RCA Demo Videodisc - 1984 Video Systems - Featuring RCA's New Digital Command Center

CBS/FOX Demo Videodisc - CED Entertainment Sampler

RCA Selectavision Videodisc - Service Alignment Disc
(the seller said it was still sealed! He didn't know any better and removed it, because he said it was damaged.)

RCA Selectavision Videodisc - Service Test Disc

I think that's it for my most rare.
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Ced Collector · Joined: 14 Jul 2021 Posts: 65

How about a sealed copy of The Goonies?

The stereo disc sticker doesn't belong to it, I added it (loosely placed in the ziplock), but it does appear to be a factory seal, best I can tell!
Think there's still another sealed copy hidden away out there somewhere?

This is a crazy rare B movie:

John Carpenter's - Black Moon Rising - one of the few 1986 releases!

Just one of the guys is a crazy rare late, 1985 title
(more so than most other 1985 titles by far. Right up there with weird science and enemy mine as being even more than most '85 titles I've noticed.)

As are these 1985 releases:

Rare CBs/ Fox labels of Rocky movies. Not super rare in themselves but these ones are still sealed!

Rare CBS/ fox label Dr.no still sealed!

Interactive (Random Access) CED - The Royal Ballet - Covent Garden - Swan Lake - still sealed!

How about a pal version of the Dark Crystal?

Isn't that so much nicer an more vibrant than the US washed out version?
This is one my favorites in my collection. In my top 5 for sure. It's beautiful and really captures how magical this movies was to us former 80's kids. This is the label they all should have all gotten. It seems to be a rare UK title too because I remember watching ebay uk for well over a year to score a copy.
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Ced Collector · Joined: 14 Jul 2021 Posts: 65

The last title Jewel of the Nile is one of (what, like 5 or less 1986 releases?) is by far the most common. so common, I dare say, most collectors can have a copy eventually, but I happen to have one still, what appears to be factory sealed.

That's probably pretty rare.

I just scored a sealed copy of Weird Science too! I've still got to take a photo of this one. I'll get on that and add it here in a few mins.
Now this is super rare as is, a sealed copy of this one is insanity rare.

Here it is. Get a load of this one, guys:

That SOB cost me over $170 bucks. Only us crazy Gen X will pay that haha Nostalgia is a powerful emotion. But come on, how cool is that?
Did you ever think a sealed copy of such a rare one was still in existence!?

I'm going to auction off my old, non sealed copy down by the bay and let it go starting at 99 cents, so keep a look out for it in a few days!

This is a tough one to score too:

this one isn't exactly found all the time either

and neither is this one!

The few other interactive discs seem to be "common enough" though.

oh, no I take that back. My unsealed copy of space shuttle isn't exactly common either.

These two were not easy scores either:

OK, I think that's all my "rare" ones. Obviously some far more than others.
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