CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 2

CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 2 • 1/11/1997
From: THX70MMDTS
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 08:56:02 -0500
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject: Re: CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 1

Looking for "KING KONG"(1976), Vestron's "GODZILLA"(1954), and "GODZILLA
1985"(1985) on CED.  Have trade list available for anyone interested.  Also
have some DiscoVision and various LD's for possible trade.  

Thanks,

Tony

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From: "Geoff Oltmans" 
To: <ceds@teleport.com>
Subject: Looking for a Toshiba belt
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 21:50:48 -0700

Greetings!

I'm looking for a belt for a Toshiba VP-100. If you have any ideas, let me
know.

Also, does anyone know what the differences in the recording patterns of a
CED and a LaserDisc? Looking at the surface of the disc, the patterns are
pretty much identical (to the naked eye).

*Geoff!*

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Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 05:27:08 -0800
From: Tom Howe 
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject: Apocalypse Now CED

The Doors Collectors web site has this for $8 (the movie contains some Doors
music). It took me quite a while to find a decent copy of this on CED. The URL
is:

http://www.doors.com/door_mem

--Tom

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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 09:47:28 -0600
From: David Potochick 
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject:  CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 1 -Reply

A CED STORY

I recently bought "THE HOWLING" on CED at an antique mall. But, "THE
HOWLING" wasn't in the caddy. Instead, when I put it in my player, I saw
the movie, "Savannah Smiles". I guess I should have checkede the
numbers on the disk and the caddy. But,  I never saw this movie and I
really enjoyed it. So I lucked out and retitled my CED caddy. 

Be sure to check the number on the disk and the number on the caddy
and see that they match.

Later,

Dave.

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From: MLandry683
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:35:45 -0500 (EST)
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject: 250 titles and 6 working players for sale.....

I have 250 movies and six working players for sale. The best offer takes them
all if you are interested e-mail me at Mlandry683@Aol.Com. Hopefuly they will
go fast so don't delay.

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From: (Neil Wagner)
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject: Videodisc History, Part 6
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 04:21:45 GMT

Still more from my collection of old Popular Science magazines -

>From the March, 1980, "Look and Listen" by John Free:
  Quick Looks
    IBM has joined forces with MCA and Japan's Pioneer to produce and
  market optical video-disc players.  GM now has two-thirds of 10,000
  players it ordered.
    Latest entry to the video tape and disc software field is Warner
  Communications' WCI Home Video Inc.  For 1980, it's planning 55
  releases.

>From the May, 1980, "Look and Listen" by William J. Hawkins:
  Quick Looks
    The latest on video discs?  Matsushita is dumping its groove-
  guided pressure pickup system and is joining with JVC to produce its
  Electro-Tracking Capacitance pickup system.  This capacitance
  technique is designed to be inexpensive, like the RCA Groove-Guided
  Capacitance system, but groovelss, like the Philips-MCA Optical-
  Tracking pickup syste, so special effects such as slow scan and
  freeze-frame can be built in.  Meanwhile, RCA has signed a deal with
  CBS for the manufacturing and distribution of SelectaVision discs.
  That should guarantee software availability when the machine is
  introduced in December.

Neil - nw@ix.netcom.com

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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 09:18:42 -0600
From: David Potochick
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject:  Lines in the middle of the disk.

What are the circular lines in the middle of the CED disk for??? Are they
for Chapters or tracks of the disk??? I've yet to see a player that actually
uses these lines... Both of the players I have have no mechanism to use
these lines.... Does anyone know what they are for??? 

Dave.

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From: MELBANEW
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 17:27:56 -0500 (EST)
To: CEDS@teleport.com
Subject: CEDS

400 CED DISC TITLES AND 2 PLAYERS, 1 PLAYER WITH REMOTE CONTROL,  $890.00.
 BILL

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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 06:13:45 -0800
From: Tom Howe 
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject: CED Magic Update

As promised, the Featured CED at the web site is NFL Football, which is
actually an arcade game that used two different discs. The CED Title Database
has also been fully linked to the Internet Movie Database. The site URL is:

http://www.teleport.com/~ceds/selectavision.html
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