CED VideoDisc and Player Discussion

7jlong · Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 187

Poorly listed... who knows what condition it is in... but this turned up on Craigslist for $20 under the vague subject "video 70s player".

http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/pho/317122787.html

RT9342 · Joined: 29 Nov 2006 Posts: 224 Location: San Antonio, TX

Hmmm.....no more link? Isn't it funny how people claim their 80's CED players to be 70's players? I even remember looking at one on eBay, and the seller claimed that their SFT-100 was made in 1979. Is there something I'm missing? I thought RCA first put this player in production around 1980 or 1981 (this website says 1981, I believe). Unless it was a prototype unit.....but then again I think the SFT-100 prototypes had a second lever instead of the pushbuttons - this one was the more familiar 5-pushbutton unit.

7jlong · Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 187

Craigslist listings expire off after 7 days... no re-post that I could find.

It was an SGT-200 - introduced in 1981. As with a lot of players I've seen listed over the years the owners probably had some vague notion of it being in use years ago and just guessed it was late 70s.

Judging from the picture they had with it (looked like someone with tremors took it on a cell phone camera), they really didn't spend much time thinking about it at all.