CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 18

CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 18 • 5/3/1997
From: (jim)
To: ceds@teleport.com
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 06:00:46 -0400
Subject: Bumpy, skippy pictures

Hi,

Does anyone have any suggestions on why so many of my CED's skip and
jump around?  I just replaced the stylus and the disks seem to be in
good shape.  Someone wrote once that I should clean the lubricant off
the disks.  With what?  Is that bad for the disk?  Did these disks
always skip, even when they were new?  They seem to have an even worse
life expectancy than a audio LP.  Any specific cleaning advice would be
appreciated!

Jim

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Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 07:08:19 -0700
From: Ted Dudziak
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject: VideoDisc Book

For those who are interested, there was a book published about the
VideoDisc project.  The title is "RCA and the VideoDisc - The business
of research" by Margaret B.W. Graham. The book is published by the
Cambridge University Press.  

The book is an interesting historical perspective of technology
development as well as the project problems that occured.  

One significant issue was in marketing of a video product.  The first
players were not stereo and you could not record on them.  These were
apparently significant issues with the buying public.  On the positive
side the programming was cheap, $15 to $25 vs $75 to $100.  

Ted

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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 08:16:39 -0700
From: "Ajo English Dept." 
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject: Ed Sandquist

C.E.D.'s         C.E.D.'s         C.E.D.'s          C.E.D.'s

The following selection of C.E.D.'s are for sale at 5 single discs for

$20 plus $2 shipping for each disc ordered.

Olivia (Olivia Newton John)

The Prince and the Pauper with Errol Flynn

That's Entertainment (An excellent M.G.M. compilation)

Duck Soup with the Marx Brothers 

The Mirror Crack'd with Angela Lansbury (Agatha Christie)

Gold Diggers of 1933 with Dick Powell

White Heat with James Cagney

Air Force with John Garfield

Footlight Parade with James Cagney

To Sir With Love with Sidney Poitier

Hang'em High with Clint Eastwood

Terror in the Aisles (A Compilation of Horror Clips)

Robin and Marion with Sean Connery

National Lampoon's European Vacation (The Griswolds go to Europe!!!)

My Favorite Year with Peter O'Toole

Jaws III with the old shark at it again

Carole King: One to One (A real nice concert)

Dressed to Kill with Michael Caine and directed by DePalma

Viva Las Vegas with Elvis and Ann Margret

Dirty Harry with Clint Eastwood and his .44

Hombre with Paul Newman

An American Werewolf in London (Great special effects.)

Vice Squad with Wings Hauser as a great villain

Educating Rita with Michael Caine

Charge of the Light Brigade with Errol Flynn

Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas and directed by Kubrick

Jaws II with Roy Scheider and the shark

Psycho II with Anthony Perkins 

Night Porter with Dirk Bogarde

The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson

Avalanche with Rock Hudson

Charly with Cliff Robertson in a great performance in the title role

Suddenly Last Summer with Katherine Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor

Reefer Madness (a 1930's cult classic)

Jezebel with Bette Davis, George Brent, and Henry Fonda

The Petrified Forest with Bette Davis, Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart

Dark Victory with Bette Davis, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Psycho with Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh

12 Angry Men with Henry Fonda in a fine Sidney Lumet classic

Halloween II with Jamie Leigh Curtis and Michael Myers

Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break with W.C. Fields and Gloria Jean

Marty with Ernest Borgnine playing the great title role

Silent Rage with Chuck Norris

Come Back to the Five and Dime with Cher

Dracula with Bela Lugosi

Coma with Michael Douglas

Friday the 13th with Betsy Palmer and great special effects

Gold Diggers of 1935

Double C.E.D.'s          Double C.E.D.'s         Double C.E.D.'s

The following double C.E.D.'s are priced at $8 each plus $4 shipping for

each title ordered.

The Towering Inferno with Paul Newman, William Holden, Steve McQueen

The Pride and the Passion with Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren

The Verdict with Paul Newman

Airport with Dean Martin and Burt Lancaster

A Few Dollars More with Clint Eastwood

Godfather, Part II with Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro

Laser Discs        Laser Discs           Laser Discs    Laser Discs

The following laser discs are on sale for $12.50 each plus $2 shipping

for each title ordered. All are in fine condition.

The Haunting of Sarah Hardy

Immediate Family with Glenn Close and James Woods

Moon of the Wolf with David Janssen

Child's Play 2 with Chucky

Can She Bake a Cherry Pie with Karen Black

Child's Play 3 with Chucky again

Adventures of Mark Twain in Claymotion

The Red Menace 

Hellraiser with Andy Robinson and great special effects

Hostile Guns with Tab Hunter

Topaz (1933) with John Barrymore

A Hero Ain't Nothin But a Sandwich with Paul Winfield

East of Eden with James Dean as Cal

Candleshoe with Jodie Foster, David Niven and Helen Hayes

Railroaded with John Ireland

Stella Dallas with Barbara Stanwyk

Grand Hotel with Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, and Wallace Beery

Johnny Handsome with Mickey Roarke and Morgan Freeman

Back to the Future with Michael J. Fox

The Beach Boys: An American Band

Field of Dreams with Kevin Costner

Friday the 13th with Betsy Palmer and great special effects

Revenge with Kevin Costner and Anthony Quinn

Cocoon with Jessica Tandy

That Hamilton Woman with Vivian Leigh and Lawrence Olivier

Panic in the Streets with Richard Widmark

Pinnochio by Disney

Holocroft Covenant with Michael Caine

Waxworks with great special effects

Doc Hollywood (scope) with Michael J. Fox

Miller's Crossing with Gabriel Byrne and Albert Finney

Mr. Destiny with Michael Caine and Jim Belushi

Please specify C.E.D. or Laser Disc when you order and add the

appropriate postage. Send your orders to:

                                          Ed Sandquist

                                          713 Morondo Ave

                                          Ajo, Arizona 85321

                                          Phone 520

387-4204               

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Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 22:39:54 -0700
From: John Robertson
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject: Some CED's for sale/trade/wanted

Hi, I have a few discs to trade here in hte RCA Selectavision format. I
need Volume two of: Star Trek - the motion picture, REDS, Sophie's
Choice, and The Elephant Man.
I have the following for sale/trade: Elephant Man (I have 2 1/2 of this
one), Benji, Rainbow Brite in "Perl in the Pits", and The Black
Stallion.
Oh, and lastly, I have Playboy CED in a Muppet Movie cover.
Finally an empty The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea case.
These are all working, open to offers...
:-#)#
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 12:17:51 -0600
From: David Potochick
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject:  CED Needle......

Can CED skipping be needle related??? My most recent CED player was
seldom used..... The person sold it to me for $3.00 with the Jane Fonda
disk.... He said that he recieved the player as a gift and hardly ever used
it and never bought any other disks.  Anyway, what I noticed is that my
disks hardly skip at all on this new CED player. They play beautifully....
So, I might end up just buying needles for my other players and see if it
solves the problem..... 

I wish I would have seen the Nightline where they hold up a CED.... That
would have been Kool!!! I'm wondering if DVD will be the next CED.....
Everyone (except on person who bought one) that I've talked to so far
agrees with me on the pixelated picture... Sure DVD's look fine on small
monitors... But, try blowing them up on a big screen TV.... You start
seeing great big pixels changing..... CED's and LD's aren't perfect but at
least you don't get pixels...... Watching a DVD on a big screen is like
trying to magnify a .gif or .bmp file on a Computer...... 

Well, later........

Dave.

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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 17:15:56 +0000
From: Tom Howe 
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject: FORWARDED TO CED DIGEST FROM OTT.FORSALE.OTHER

Subject:      CED video disk player for sale (not a lazor disk Player)
From:         ct390@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Robbie Strike)
Date:         1997/04/30
Newsgroups:   ott.forsale.other

I am trying to sell some of my dust colectors. I Have for sale
1 CED stereo video disk player. $25 in mint condition.

30 disks 5 bucks each movie.
The Muppet Movie
The Blue Lagoon
Deth Wish
Deth Wish 2
On golden Pond
Excalibur   2 disks
Blazing Saddles
Mommie Dearest
The Karate Kid, 2 Disks
1 disk of Conan The Barbarian
The Secret of NIMH
Love Story
Ben Hur  2 Disks
Disney Cartoon Parade
Daffy Duck's movie: Fantastic Island
Escape To Witch Mountain
Benji
Slave of The Cannibal God
The many adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Disney Cartoon Parade vol 2
Teachers
MegaForce
Superman 1  2 disks
Superman 2  2 disks
Superman 3  2 disks
National Lampoon's Vacation
Beverly Hills Cop
The Great Muppet Caper

Of cours you may be asking yourself why would you be interisted in this
out of date machien whell if you are interisted pleas let me know I
would
like to know, But you dont have to tell me if you dont want to.  

And this is not a lazor disk player it is a early 80's analog
selectavishion
made by RCA. The disks were made out of the same materieal as video
tapes not
cd's.

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