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Memories of VideoDisc - Player and Disc Production

If you arrived here as a side trip from the Memories slide show, click HERE to resume that sequence at Slide No. 432.

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CED Player Manufacturing

• Display of a Disassembled CED Player
• Heat and Cold Stress Tests of Electronic Components
• Testing the Geography of Pre-fabricated Parts
• Electronic Component Tape Reel
• Master Signal Processing Board Without Components
• Station to Shake Metal Stakes into Mounting Posts
• Automatic Insertion of Electronic Components
• Signal Processing Board Without Integrated Circuits
• Board Build-up Line
• Solder Bath
• Signal Processing Board With Integrated Circuits
• Test and Alignment Station for Signal Processing Board
• Precision Tracking Arm
• Tracking Arm Final Test Station
• Direct Drive Turntable
• Turntable Being Magnetized
• Turntable Mounting and Height Adjustment
• Installation of the Auto-loading Mechanism
• Power Transformer Installation
• Stop Station Assembly Line
• Troubleshooting Station
• 500 Hours of Continuous Play
• Shielded Testing Room
• Shipping Tab Installation
• CED Player Drop Test
• The Final Product

RCA VideoDisc Manufacturing

• Blank Copper Master
• Bar Code Being Added to Blank Copper Master
• Blank Copper Master Being Scanned for Defects
• Recording Master Control Unit
• Electromechanical Master Recording Lathe
• Twelve Miles of Continuous Copper Filament
• Mock-Up of VideoDisc Surface (10,000x)
• Wall Display Illustrating Stamper Fabrication
• Electrodeposition- Submaster Descending into Vat
• Electrodeposition- Nickel Pellets Used to make Stamper
• Stamper Being Separated from Mold
• Stamper with Center Hole Punched
• Disc Pressing Unit
• Carbon-impregnated PVC Pellets Used to Form Disc Shot
• PVC Shot to be Fed into Disc Press
• Pressed Disc Being Trimmed
• Random Testing of Pressed Discs for Quality Control
• Visual Inspection of Discs
• Discs Being Conveyored after Rinsing
• Wall Display Illustrating Caddy Fabrication
• Clearance Checking on Caddies and Spines
• Label Being Applied to Caddy
• Labeled Caddies Going to Storage
• Silicone Coating Applied to Disc Before Caddy Insertion
• Checking Bar Code Before Closing the Caddy
• Exiting Shrink Wrapper with Stereo Label Being Applied
• Packaging of Shrink Wrapped Discs
• Random Testing of Packaged Discs for Quality Control
• Computerized Inventory Fulfillment and Distribution
• Pulling Small Orders from Open Inventory
• Palletized Quantity Order Fulfillment

QuickTime Movie Tour

This is a high-quality QuickTime movie of the complete 23 minute tour of SelectaVision VideoDisc and Player production facilities hosted by Google Video.