RCA Selectavision Videodisc You're Watching Us

[Sheri451]

I had one of those pieces of crap. I put the movie in and all the stupid thing would do is skip and freeze. I had it for about a year, then took it and all the movies to the dump.

[maxwestcomics]

The problem with Selectavision was it only played; VHS could record and play. Plus by the time it was released in 1981, VHS was firmly established.

[MattTheSaiyan]

A highly effective commercial. Hey, it's better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all, especially in consumer electronics. I've never used Selectavision, but there is just something fun and collectable about defunct types of media formats.

[IVANOFVOCHITO88]

Este CED trae logo del perrito con fonografo

[mrceleb2006]

This might have been the only brand name of CED videodisc player ever advertised on TV, eh?

[thatguyontheright1]

protip: when using that kind of player, dont slam the disc into the player like he did. You damage the mechanism that lets you pull the disc from the caddy

[jtkirkfan2002]

I had a later model of this, (didn't have the hard load/unload switch, just an eject button), that I bought in 1983. I had it until at least 1989 when it developed a problem where one corner of the screen showed only in red.

[lovemylogics]

Interestingly, RCA's labs did create a re-recordable optical videodisc that was playable on standard consumer LaserVision/LaserDisc players. They invented it during the mid-70's for the industrial market and many of Pioneer and Philips patents reference or make use of RCA's optical recording technology. MCA invented the Master-V non-metal/non-photoresist DRAW disc for mastering - and started using it for consumer discs in mid-1980.

[hunkytim]

Yes that clip with the audio compressed into a 1 second sound burst was

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erm, fascinating

[TheDigitalslayer]

I have that exact same model in my living room. I do not use it much, only when some one asxs me, " What is that?"

[MRLOL785]

no audio?

[KarleeDiane2011]

Exactly how did this work?

[bigbadwolf2007]

@KarleeDiane2011 It plays like a record album which has a stylus.

[ThePhonoQuack]

Just like RCA to try & profit from other companies ideas. This company has been stealing ideas ever since it's beginnings as The Victor Phonograph Company.

It's a wonder they don't claim to have invented the laser disc, DVD & Blu-Ray, like so many other false claims this company has made since it's inseption.

[Watcher3223]

Well, for RCA, they couldn't make claim to invent the LaserDisc; doing so would've gotten them a sharp rebuttal from MCA as MCA owned the original patents.

As for DVD and Blu-Ray Disc, when DVD first came out, RCA had already ceased to exist as a corporation for 10 years; RCA was bought out and taken apart by General Electric. The only thing that exists of RCA today is just the name, used by Sony BMG for audio recordings as well as Thomson and Audiovox for their own home electronics.

[receiver2005]

piece of shit is what it is

[bossyman15]

wow! i like how you put disc in the player! very cool!

[heine71]

I'm watching them in this YouTube clip?