Perhaps those who still have one of these players, keep on enjoying them because they were made in the USA, (Whit a hell of a workmanship, as it this video shows), not like today's crap, that may bear a Brand name and a logo, but made in China and lasts a short lapse, look in the rear of any DVD or Blu ray player today and sadly shows Made in China, ¿What happened to all those glorious factories and workshops of yesterday In America?
@kirbyyasha - RCA no longer exists. Currently, the RCA trademark is owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor. The trademark is used by Sony Music Entertainment and Technicolor, which licenses the name to other companies.
@kirbyyasha While it APPEARS here that these were a 'quality' product, this format ultimately deserved to fail because EVERY disc would skip at least one time during playback- when you watch one of these it's just a given that you're going to see it skip. That problem should have been eliminated before these were even put on the market. CED's failure is a big reason why RCA isn't what it used to be.
How will you know if the disc is messed up? You never see the disc. If you try to remove it from the protective package (or whatever that is called) you will damage it.
Man, they have to make DVD and Blu-Ray discs like that nowadays. It looks cooler and it's scratch protected ;)
@vdochev Some of the earlier CD-ROM drives used caddies, which housed the discs but you could open them if you had to. When DVD was being developed Blockbuster asked that they use a caddy, but the developers said no.
Old fashioned electronics manufacturing, before it was all outsourced to Asia. I love the more hands-on craftmanship of that era compared to today.
cadmus98 1 month ago
Perhaps those who still have one of these players, keep on enjoying them because they were made in the USA, (Whit a hell of a workmanship, as it this video shows), not like today's crap, that may bear a Brand name and a logo, but made in China and lasts a short lapse, look in the rear of any DVD or Blu ray player today and sadly shows Made in China, ¿What happened to all those glorious factories and workshops of yesterday In America?
noisedownloader 4 months ago
Cave Johnson?
hegars1 4 months ago
How Its Made, 80's Style!!!
flight206 6 months ago
9:36 ahhh that glorius sound!!!
debiani3866 7 months ago
highley educational and i enjoyed the complete experience thank you
FRANKIESHANOWSKIY2K0 11 months ago
How come RCA doesn't have this kind of quality now? Anything RCA = Complete Shit. Very sad to see what has become of this brand.
kirbyyasha 1 year ago
@kirbyyasha - RCA no longer exists. Currently, the RCA trademark is owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor. The trademark is used by Sony Music Entertainment and Technicolor, which licenses the name to other companies.
databits 1 year ago
@kirbyyasha While it APPEARS here that these were a 'quality' product, this format ultimately deserved to fail because EVERY disc would skip at least one time during playback- when you watch one of these it's just a given that you're going to see it skip. That problem should have been eliminated before these were even put on the market. CED's failure is a big reason why RCA isn't what it used to be.
eyeh8nbc 8 months ago
@p0llenp0ny
I know, right? It seems it was a very well thought out piece of gear made in the good ol' USA
3y3tiger 1 year ago
@3y3tiger yes. I thought the same as you
noisedownloader 4 months ago
Wow they used to manufacture stuff in the US? :-P
p0llenp0ny 1 year ago
After watching that I would love to get one but I guess they are really hard to find nowadays.
andymate2006 1 year ago
@andymate2006 - Not really. Ebay has a ton of machines for sale at different times.
databits 1 year ago
that was GREAT!!!!
jose5080007 1 year ago
A Question....
Was the videos that you posted meant for the general public, or to attract sellers?
Brent
BrentAudi 2 years ago
Awesome!
This was amazing technology for the time period!
Thanks for the upload!
Brent
BrentAudi 2 years ago
@BrentAudi Poor timing as far as release to the market though. This technology was actually developed in 1964.
p0llenp0ny 1 year ago
beautiful things!!! just don't play a very messed up disc or ur stylus is gonna be gone...
joselino71 2 years ago
@joselino71
How will you know if the disc is messed up? You never see the disc. If you try to remove it from the protective package (or whatever that is called) you will damage it.
Man, they have to make DVD and Blu-Ray discs like that nowadays. It looks cooler and it's scratch protected ;)
vdochev 1 year ago
@vdochev Some of the earlier CD-ROM drives used caddies, which housed the discs but you could open them if you had to. When DVD was being developed Blockbuster asked that they use a caddy, but the developers said no.
eyeh8nbc 8 months ago