RCA Videodisc Demo- Bring The Magic Home

This is from the first in-store demo disc for the RCA SelectaVision CED VideoDisc player, which went on the market in March 1981. The disc repeats this segment several times over. During the "Lady Sings the Blues" clip you can see the CED format's trademark skipping- almost every disc does this. The second half of this clip shows the first player in action. The later players had motorized disc loading.

I've had this posted on some of the better video sites but decided to post it here too. Most of the movie clips are copyrighted by Paramount Pictures, who I thank in advance for not pulling this. Paramount was one of the biggest supporters of the format from the get-go, strangely when DVD came out they waited more than a year to put out anything on that format.

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Entertainment

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• RCA
• Selectavision
• videodisc
• video
• disc
• demo
• demonstration

[eyeh8cbs]

These are played with a stylus, not a laser.

[naughtyringtail2002]

I just bought a CED player at Goodwill yesterday for $5.99, we had to tinker with it a little to get it working but now it works great!! Also I thought it was hilarious Goodwill had it marked as a VCR, they probably had no idea what this thing was.

[TheLegendkiller2100]

Bring the magic home with RCA! lol What crappy song line.

[LIBshark]

i still can't my head how video was created from a vinyl record...

But if RCA had gotten this out to the market sooner it may have succeeded because VHS movies were more expensive back then....

[ConfusedSponge]

@Satlam Hmmmm, intersting! Thanks.

[Satlam]

@ConfusedSponge That would probably ruin the disc, if you got it out of the caddy. The groove is supposedly 1/37th the width of a normal record groove, so it would skip right over. Furthermore, even if you did have a needle that small, the signal on a CED was read in a different manner, and would likely not sound like much at all on a record player.

[ANATOLIACHTZEIN]

It was and still is just blurry videotaped analog signal encoded onto a disc - PHYSICALLY (lol) - not digitally & they SKIP LIKE HELL unmercifully from the lowest device to the most expensive ones. UGGGH I wish I had never bought one.

[ConfusedSponge]

@BugKiller98 Wow, interesting! Thanks for the info ;-)

[ConfusedSponge]

Exactly 6:00 ! Wow! Anyway, I heard that the CED is practically a Vinyl Record! Has anyone tried playing a CED on a turntable? I wanna know what happened? Let me know, will ya ;-)

[nomadcowatbk]

Paramount was big Circuit City divx support supporter