1980 RCA Video Disc Player Commercial

[johnnybeane]

We had this in 1982. I still have a Star Wars disk.

[kfdave]

Ahhh,what fine technology RCA,Pioneer uses a Laser,you use a needle,like a damned turntable,to do VIDEO!What could go wrong?

[ewd76]

You can get a dvd player itself for $15 these days, and thanks to the magic of internet piracy, the movies are free! : )

[Diskoboy1974]

A friend of mine back in 1982 had one of these. It rarely worked. It seemed like it needed a new stylus after every viewing.

[TheUltraCoolDude1]

my dad has 2 of these things! (too bad he keeps his house a hellhole)

[241kenzo]

This disaster of a product brought down a once proud RCA.

[YukoAsho]

@241kenzo Well, let's back up, RCA was already in trouble due to their failure in the computer market in the 70s, and the CED was more a disaster of internal politics than the product. Had it come out BEFORE VHS and not been delayed to hell, I imagine things would have been different.

[savingtess08]

LOL under 500??? in the 80's that would be equal today to 1500

[YoshiFan501]

airplane!

[DigitalImagesToront]

I had one of those. The discs would get scratched and would skip. I am not surprised they were not around long. They were called CED, Capacitance...something...Disc­. They even had some that played in STEREO...Oooooooooo!

[Shicky256]

Oh. My. God. When does it come out?

[Oshidori]

YES!! Thank you!! I had no idea what these were called but we have over 100 of them still AND the player. My mom is such a pack rat lol. She even has the instruction manual hoping one day to get someone to fix it!

[tonstad39]

Um that's no DVD RCA vieodisic player had a stylus not a laser like other laser discs

[clintonearlwalker]

Thank goodness for torrents.

[natazer]

My aunt and uncle had a laser disc. The movies they had were, Star Wars, Raiders, Wrath of Khan, Howling and the Making of Thriller. That was good times in the 80's people.

[southport97]

I saw a couple of these disks at a yard sale once and I asked the guy what the hell is this? He said it's a prehistoric DVD.

[PoopSlime]

good marketing, bad product.

[Tigercat919]

The problem is you'd have to deal with the needle skipping.

[PGMEagle]

I use to have one of these in the 80s.

[Genius7277]

@9000failurez NETFLIX DIDN'T EXIST AT THAT TIME MOTHERFUCKER!

[themasterofmovies]

@9000failurez NETFLIX IS A PEICE OF SHIT ANYWAY, ALL THE GOOD MOVIES ARE UNAVAILABLE MOTHERFUCKERS!

[TheChampion613]

@9000failurez yeah because netflix was around at that time.

[PupuTheClown]

,,hey now this was pretty damn good for 1980, laser disc ?, get real yo !

[KuchiboyROBLOX]

He Pukes Based Shark's video used this :D

[Funnyjake011]

@aj0017vlogs RCA STANDS FOR RWEALLY CWAPPY APPLIANCE

[spacehelmetforacow]

@IamTheta Yeah, but VCRs at he time were quite a bit more expensive then $500 (this is 1980, VHS and Beta would have only been out for years, not enough time for costs to really come down)

[TheMJG1]

It's laserdisk's commercial.

[jonte141]

@TheMJG1 No, laserdisk's looks like big DVD's

[Watcher3223]

@TheMJG1

Uh, no. CED, which was the official name for RCA SelectaVision VideoDisc, used a stylus to read the disc.

BUT, as old fashioned as that may have sounded, LaserDisc came out three years before CED.

CED = 1981

LaserVision (DiscoVision to MCA, VLP to Philips) = 1978

[Rcrby525]

to think this was years before DVD's and now blu-rays...(which are eventually being phased out in favor of digital purchases and apple tv, but, whatever)

[fool1977]

Man, we had this things.

[nnwahler]

In the early 80s Michael Landon, of NBC's "Little House On The Prairie," gave this format its biggest bolster ever when he gave each of the cast & crew a Select-A-Vision player as a gift! Sorry that it didn't quite rescue it. :(

In '03 a much older pal who was SO into vintage gadgets went with me on a shopping trip to the biggest used record store in Seattle & he was so gladdened when I told him they were selling Select-A-Vision movies for a dollar a pop! :)

[eyeh8nbc]

@nnwahler Michael Jackson had a player too, and so did Liberace (a few years ago on Ebay someone was selling his collection.)

Didn't know about the Little House deal, any documentation of that? The first episode of that was released on CED.

[inr21sevier]

hm cooll does it have have family guy on it hahahaha @Genius7277

[eyeh8nbc]

Whoever made that "Echoes" tape obviously got this commercial from me, since it has the tracking noise at the bottom (I've since gotten that fixed). Least they could've done was sent me a copy!