RCA Selectavision CED Videodisc Player SGT-075 Demonstration

[Shicky256]

Great! You have a CED The Artist Formerly Known as The Artist Formerly Known as Queen disk!

[Watcher3223]

Holy smokes. This may come as a surprise, but that's the wrong stylus cartridge for that player.

The cartridge you're using is a 154100. That's for stereo players, specifically the SGT-200 and SGT-250.

Your player is supposed to use the 149000.

It'll still work, though (as we see here).

[tigermusicgirl08]

if you read the details of this video i was supposed to be the friend that recieved it

[Twisteddreamer78]

I just found a couple videodiscs....One is National lampoons Vacation from 1983 other is daffy ducks Movie: fantastic island....Both are from warner home video.....Are they worth anything?

[mytie67]

The RCA SGT-075 was my first Video Disc player. So great to see it again! Beautiful!

[Meteotrance]

video on vynile disc XD just awesome.

[Demeterkitty]

Nice vid! The Queen disc showed some obvious damage, the rhythmic popping and noise on screen but at least was playable (Discs should be stored upright, otherwise the discs rub the insides of the caddy). Grease had a lot less snow and popping but showed one of the more annoying glitches, the skipping, even though it lasted for only a quarter second, I'm amazed it never really affected the audio. Star Wars has seen better days, probably improper storage plus lots of playbacks.

[cartoonfan1920s]

Wow, the quality looks absolutely amazing! Even better than DVD since it looks like it is straight off of film :) I prefer the analog look of these CED discs, digital never did it for me.

[lizichell2]

@cartoonfan1920s Up close and not through a camera, a DVD and Laserdisc would render a superior image to CED because they have more lines per image (around 480). CED has around 300 lines, although, I have to say looks better than VHS. I think the colour looks better too.

[DvdXploitr]

@lizichell2 is there really any video format that doesn't look better than VHS??? i mean, VHS was HORRIBLE and a shame that it became the market standard for years!

[lizichell2]

@DvdXploitr Yeah. I agree. But it always seems to be the cheapest and most low quality versions that get mass marketed.

[Watcher3223]

@DvdXploitr "is there really any video format that doesn't look better than VHS??"

Yeah. Cartrivision and TeD. But, that's scraping the bottom of the barrel.

[DvdXploitr]

@Watcher3223 wish there was more info for TeD and Cartrivision on YouTube, i've seen like one or two videos and thats it....

[Watcher3223]

@lizichell2

CED was actually around 240 lines for NTSC.

[jose5080007]

wow nice ced player look like new.

[mig189189189]

Awesome video!

Nice Videodisc Player!

A classic item with H.Q. picture!

Thanks for posting!

[tromeoandjuliet]

wow so INTERESTING to watch. i grew up in the 80s i am 32 years old.i grew up watching VHS movies and Laserdiscs. i Never saw THIS format CED. this is so neat to watch. we never owned one of these. i can hear the snap crackle pop like a vinyl record and i see some static in the movies . i recall with laserdisc's you get some blemishes too when it would scratch like a line going down or it skipping but no snap crackle pop sound like these. thanks for this very informative video on this format!!!

[tromeoandjuliet]

wow so INTERESTING to watch. i grew up in the 80s i am 32 years old.i grew up watching VHS movies and Laserdiscs. i Never saw THIS format CED. this is so neat to watch. we never owned one of these. i can hear the snap crackle pop like a vinyl record and i see some static in the movies . i recall with laserdisc's you get some blemishes too when it would scratch like a line going down or it skipping but no snap crackle pop sound like these. thanks for this very informative video on this format!!!

[JEEPSTR78]

Haha WOW! Thanks for posting. I thought Laserdisc and Videodisc was the same thing! I never would of thought they could use vinyl for video.

[xmvirus202]

I know! I tried to put a laserdisc into one of these players years ago. All it did was scratch it up! Then I found the needle/stylus and didn't know what I had found~ thanks for watching and commenting :-)

[coldhandshake]

I was reading about SelectaVision, it is one weird technology. It's hard to tell from the video, does it have noise like film and bleeding like video? Looking like a mix of the two

[ajwgeek]

the videodisc player itself looks like new!!

[maurojas1234]

Estos openings se escuchaban en estereo, ¿Como pueden oirse en digital?

[Condorsat10]

Nice demo video...I thought about buying one of those machines back in the day...they were less expensive than LD(s)...I ended up buying a LD player instead. I can still remember video stores that used to rent CED disc(s). However VHS was always king of rentals...which sucked...never did like that format.

[skutter2001]

this demonstration just helped me fix my machine!!my stylus did not work after i cleaned the tip,,by looking at the cartridge at :43 i noticed the fly lead on the cartridge was pointed in the wrong direction The fly lead is the copper coloured fine wire that connects the cartridge contact to the stylus tip.

by reversing the position of the lead the movie played!! thanks for putting this on here,,it worked as a reference tool to fix a machine that is hard enough to find as a working unit!!

[yamajammer76]

On here the picture looks better then VHS. Does it look better then VHS or about the same when you are watching it? I assume that your TV also does an up-convert on the picture since it looks like an HDTV.

[guruelectri]

i the same CED player, i love it!

[PlaidLaiden]

It's so amusing that they had to speed up Star Wars to fit on one disc...you can hear the raised pitch and eversoslightly faster intro...

[xmvirus202]

I agree- I kinda thought it sounded a little fast. I think they cut a few minutes out also, but I could be wrong. Thanks for commenting.

[PlaidLaiden]

Thank YOU for posting! I love these CED videos. It feels like the only technology that has a finite nostalgia...meaning that eventually, there'll be no syli to play the discs...

[xmvirus202]

Your welcome- I love them too. You are right about the finite part. A few years ago, there was still a huge quantity of NOS styli at RCA, but I think they have liquidated them. Fortunately, there is a company that does rebuild them, believe it or not.  Do a google search for 'CEDatum', their page is at the top.

[Watcher3223]

It was common practice back then to employ time compression to make a movie just slightly over 2 hours to fit within the 2 hour time frame. This occurred with both LaserDisc and CED.

Doing that was cheaper than spreading the entire movie over two discs.

[Watcher3223]

Of course, I'm not praising time compression and find it just as repulsive as the "fullscreening" practice applied to widescreen films.

The best way to watch the movie is at normal speed and in its original aspect ratio.

[xmvirus202]

I totally agree- thanks for your comments!

[rileychad]

nice player lol