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Topic: Anyone have a CED (SelectaVision) VideoDisc player?
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Jesse Skeen
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1517
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 04-12-2004 03:18 AM
What can I say, I have a soft spot for failed technology! Yes, I absolutely hated the concept of DIVX when it came out, but since it died a rightful death I felt I ought to at least pick up a few discs since I figured few people would probably be saving them (all the unsold ones were destroyed from what I heard.) I have Tomorrow Never Dies and Amistad which are labeled as being anamorphic widescreen, also Armageddon, Deep Impact and Roger Rabbit which are letterboxed. Amistad includes a making-of feature which the cover indicates "can be viewed at any time without charge"- it probably can't be played now though since the player still had to phone in to the system to make sure you still had "permission" to play it. That was the concept of "DIVX Gold" discs which never materialized, but were proposed to not have the pay-per-view structure of the regular discs, but could only be played on DIVX players and were still subject to having plays phoned-in and play could be disabled at will. That was what I hated most about the format- suppose some hidden obscenity in a Disney movie was discovered, so the company could simply tell the machines not to let any existing copies of it play anymore?
Interestingly enough, the Cartrivision tape format in 1972 had a similar concept- rental tapes had a mechanism that would not allow them to be rewound in a consumer machine, so you could only watch them one time before returning them. I have a few of these tapes and they all were previously been taken apart, presumably to defeat this "feature".
CED was a silly format as well (they NEVER should have let it reach the market until they could completely eliminate the skipping), but since it's now long-gone there's just something about it I find appealing, much like 8-track tapes.
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Bruce Hansen
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 847
From: Stone Mountain, GA, USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-12-2005 08:38 PM
There are no groves on an RCA SelectaVision (CED) disc. There are tracks, but no groves. If you open one up you can see this. The surface is smooth, and looks something like a laser disc, except that it is black, but you can see the vertical sync (notice that there are more fields per track than on laser disc), and changes in the video. If you want to open one, just stick teekers (small screwdivers, or use tooth picks) in the outside edge of the "locks" and press inward, while pulling out that top plastic piece.
BTW: CED stands for Capacitance Electronic Disc
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