RCA VideoDisc CD-ROM Soon To Be Available

RCA VideoDisc CD-ROM Soon To Be Available

UPDATE: The CD-ROM is available. Click HERE and look in the FAQ section of the Products page.

I plan to have an RCA VideoDisc CD-ROM available in early 1999. This CD-ROM will be authored in HTML, and will be similar to the CED Magic web site, but where CED Magic contains about 20 MB of data, the CD-ROM will contain about 600 MB. The additional data will consist largely of high resolution photographs of the front and back of all the titles listed in the CED Title Database. These photos will be 1024 x 1146 pixels in size, meaning that they will appear life-size on a 14" monitor set to a resolution of 640 x 480. This will be close to the electronic equivalent of holding the CED caddy in your own hands- all but the finest text will be legible on monitors set to 640 x 480. The main utility of this will be the ability to look at the caddy without having to retrieve it from storage or even own it. Since a lot of CED's are now being acquired over the internet, the ability to see the caddy layout prior to purchase will be useful information to purchasers and bidders. The photographs will be linked to clickable fields in the CED Title Database, and will also be navigable in an alphabetical slide show fashion.

The production of this CD-ROM will be a non-profit hobbyist exercise, so I'll be selling the disc for the distributed cost of mastering, replicating, and shipping, which I'd estimate at $5 to $10 per disc depending on the number of interested collectors and the replication process chosen. The disc will be a hybrid, playable on Macintosh, Unix, and Windows 95/98/NT/2000 machines. If you are interested, submit your name and email address on the form at the bottom of this page, so I can get a count and also add you to a list of people to be notified when the project is complete.

UPDATE: The CD-ROM is available. Click HERE and look in the FAQ section of the Products page.

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