I like your looks and 70's interior and that there is some photofilm laying around.

The players are awesome tech for its time

@DavidMander-rs4uk

21 күн бұрын

It was outdated before it even reached the market.

❤️ your video on the CED Player! You really got my attention and I learned some things I didn’t know. I remember seeing the CED Player on display at Belk in the very early 80’s at Belk & I stayed at the Ronald McDonald House in the early to mid 80’s and they had a CED Player & I watched Splash on it & I loved flipping the Disc. My Fiancé & I sure don’t have room for a CED Player,I just love to go down memory lane when I was a kid to a teenager fascinated with this unique machine.I will have to subscribe!

CED was the 8 Track of the home video market.

Very informative . You can use a vacuum padding the wand to prevent marring to clean dusty discs

Raiders Of The Lost Ark on CED has Dolby Pro Logic surround sound.

Yes, laserdisks were much more expensive, but they were made under much the same idea as ced. While a laserdisk cost 35-60 a VHS tape cost much more. When back to the future released it cost $85 on VHS.

I have the exact same model of CED that I fixed recently.

I’ve seen the skipping, but not that bad. My damage appears to have occurred when the disk was treated roughly when being transferred between player and caddy.

I worked at RCA's R&D lab back in the day. Heard that RCA tried to use cheaper conductive vinyl but it had impurities that would make skips, and playing the disc didn't help these.

what happens if you scratch a CED like a dj?

Some CED's have been played to many times and will skip a lot. I have one

As a guy who doesn't own any of these yet, I have a weird tech question. There's a few discs I know that are one-sided, usually the second disc of a two-disc movie (The Godfather, Return Of The Jedi, and Scarface are the only ones I know). Being that they are less than three hours long, that means the fourth side is blank. If you inserted the fourth side (or, with a double-sided player, began playing the fourth side), what would happen? What would you see and hear, and would that damage anything? (Excuse me for being a total noob, I don't have discs or players to try this with.)

@CelGenStudios

5 жыл бұрын

I would assume that just like Laserdisc an unused side is just stamped with a single video frame its entire length of the side indicating the programming is on the other side.

@danieldaniels7571

2 жыл бұрын

@@CelGenStudios I highly doubt it's anything as cool as the upside-down turtle on the older Pioneer laserdiscs. I genuinely don't know though. I've never tried to play a blank 4th side of a CED. Will have to do that when I get my home theater back together.

@DylanBerichon

Жыл бұрын

When you insert a blank side of a disc, the player will immediately indicate the End of the disc as soon as it spins up and not advance the stylus any further.

OK I've had the CED players and discs since they came out new. That at least gives me some creds to weigh in here...that and I've talked with ex-RCA CED techs about this format. They adamantly say not to clean these discs with a RCM(record cleaning machine) as it will remove or ruin the silicon coating of the disc. Well, OK....but I question if that's a bad thing when trying to bring back a hopelessly skipping disc? As was correctly stated, if these discs were ever stored on their sides, the silicon coating will get scratched. So unless you buy from a collector that you see with your own eyes has stored them vertical, you're going to get discs that have been stacked on their sides and ruined...even if they are still sealed. I've bought hundreds of discs in that 'ruined' condition, And after all this time expecting to inflict guilt on a seller for 'ruined' CEDS, forget about it because they have none....they're just looking to unload the format onto the next rube. My best advice is to buy them CHEAP and maybe put them through a good RCM bought because you have LP's anyway. I certainly wouldn't spend the money for a RCM just for these discs. Playing them over & over will only moderately help skipping. Don't ever pause a movie as that can make a permanent 'skip' at that same spot. Probably something that some machines were inadvertently capable of. Don't ever touch the discs with your fingers, but don't be afraid to open them and investigate the damage. You will not harm them if you lay them out on CLEAN microfiber cloths.

CEDatum doesn’t seem to be in operation anymore. Do you know of anyone else that restores the stylus in the player?

@CelGenStudios

2 жыл бұрын

Oh dear. Hmm. All I can recommend is the list of parts distributors on CEDmagic but I can't promise many of them are still in business either.

@FUDGEMALONE

2 жыл бұрын

@@CelGenStudios Thanks for the advice. I think that CED videodisc is really cool. It would be nice if parts and services for this machine was still readily available.

Could it be possible to make a homemade CED player?

@CelGenStudios

9 жыл бұрын

DanielWS424 I don't see why not as it's pretty trivial. Your only problem would be the components in the tracking arm that make a useable electrical signal from the stylus. Pure magic in my mind as it goes beyond how an LP did it.

@TonyFleetwood

8 жыл бұрын

+DanielWS424 do you mean frankensteining a few players together? otherwise, no.

I remember these from my teen years. What was the correct name of the service called again ceedatum.com?

@Mayala285

3 жыл бұрын

cedatum.com/

this is awful technology, as a movie collector who has everything from beta to blue ray I refuse to even collect this awful crap. No wonder it died a quick death

@CelGenStudios

5 жыл бұрын

Understandable by me, however you're missing out on some of the cheesiest movies I have ever seen that were so....bad...that even MST3K didn't consider them. ;)

You're still not storing them 'upright enough'. Vertical means vertical, not 35° vertically...

@CelGenStudios

6 жыл бұрын

This has been corrected with new shelving.

instead of going through all this trouble just get a dvd or blue ray player

@danieldaniels7571

3 жыл бұрын

Boring

Such a garbage format with constant skipping!