Do you remember the VideoDisc?

[dthreet]

I was having a conversation with a coworker tonight about Betamax tonight. I told him that when I was a kid we had a RCA VideoDisc player and then we got a VCR. He thought I was crazy. So am I the only one who had one of these?

RCA SelectaVision VideoDisc Player
Model SFT-100

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My mother loved this CED VideoDisc

Saturday Night Feaver

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Then the CRVdisc [Recordable VideoDisc] that didn't ever make much of the consumer market due to the cost and popularity of the VCR

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[LarryFlowers]

I possess 2 brand new in a box RCA CED Viseodisc players and 1 that I use from time to time. I own about 240 CED Video Discs. This is on top of one Pioneeer Laser Video Disc Player and anoth 400 or so Laser Video Discs.

[RAD]

I remember them, IIRC they actually had a needle to read the grooves in the disc. When RCA was sponsoring Space Mountain at Disney World on the ride exit they used to show some of their products and this was one of them.

[Stuart Sweet]

One thing I really liked about the system was the name. SelectAVision. It really described the random access nature of the discs. Also the packaging was a direct ancestor to the 3.5" disk that was in such common use in the 1990s.

[Richard King]

I had a Toshiba Cinema Series Laser video disc player. Thankfully I found that its reliability was crap before investing in a bunch of discs. It died soon after I purchased it and again about a month after coming back from "repair". When I sent it in again they said they couldn't fix it, so it currently sits boxed up in my storage room. :( Great stuff though, when it worked.

[Chris Blount]

I remember CED. I had a couple of players along with about 100 or so discs. They worked well as long as the discs were not dirty or worn out. They used to skip at times which was really irritating.

CED was cheap but laserdisc was better.

[LarryFlowers]

Funny thing about that Space Mountain RCA Display... the player they were showing there was actailly a laser video disc player, which RCA decided not to pursue, instead going for the CED players.

The Laser Video Disc Player was definitely a superior format to CED, BUT and this is a big BUT... CED out produced video disc titles by a factor of about 10 to one when you consider that most of the titles in the Laser Disc catalog were unavailable. RCA always outproduced the laser disc folks with titles but in the end, the RCA execs pulled the plug because they tired of the red ink for the program.

I remember them, IIRC they actually had a needle to read the grooves in the disc. When RCA was sponsoring Space Mountain at Disney World on the ride exit they used to show some of their products and this was one of them.

[dthreet]

I possess 2 brand new in a box RCA CED Viseodisc players and 1 that I use from time to time. I own about 240 CED Video Discs. This is on top of one Pioneeer Laser Video Disc Player and anoth 400 or so Laser Video Discs.

WoW!!! 240 VideoDisc's. I think my father still has the RCA VideoDisc player in his closet full of dead electronics.