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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Sheri451 3 months ago
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.
maxwestcomics 5 months ago
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.
MattTheSaiyan 9 months ago
Este CED trae logo del perrito con fonografo
IVANOFVOCHITO88 9 months ago
This might have been the only brand name of CED videodisc player ever advertised on TV, eh?
mrceleb2006 1 year ago
@KarleeDiane2011 It plays like a record album which has a stylus.
bigbadwolf2007 1 year ago
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
thatguyontheright1 1 year ago
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.
jtkirkfan2002 1 year ago
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.
lovemylogics 1 year ago
Yes that clip with the audio compressed into a 1 second sound burst was
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erm, fascinating
hunkytim 1 year ago