http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc never heard of this before in my life. Does anyone own one of these? Has anyone had hands-on experience with it?
Hard Off? as opposed to Hard On? Weird place to find this.. what's the price per disk? are they worth anything today?
Unlikely as CED was never released in Japan. What you are probably seeing is VHD a similar type of disc, which pissed over CED from a great height as it had better tracking (electronic rather then just passive grooves on CEDm which also meant much less chance of skipin-in-in-in-in-in[bang]g..), more lines, better chroma, no crosstalk, better audio encoding, stereo on release and had interactivety (on the Sharp X1 and MSX) and 3D (on special units that played the disc twice as fast so that two images could be displayed....). However VHD wasn't released outside Japan, although Thorn did plan to release it in the UK... No. Unlike records that has the sound in the needle vibrating in the groove. CED uses grooves for tracking. CED and VHD use the disc as playback, so your hands would cause issues with playback and possibly ruin the disc. CED discs are quite cheap but before you think of collecting them do remember they are heavy. Think of lifting about 6 or 7 LP records and you get the rough weight of a CED disc. Also remember that styluses for the players can be tricky to find new, with the exception of the RCA players so you could get a nice paperweight instead of a CED player.
I watched Tron and Star Wars on one. Video quality is worse than VHS - the vertical resolution is less and the framerate is also lower. While watching Tron the disc skipped and we ended up watching the same sequence two times in a row (like a broken record) but it fixed itself. All in all it's totally watchable, it has a cool factor that isn't there with newer video.
You could probably scratch using a CED Tho iirc the stylus does actually make contact with the disk, you 're risking some damage to your giant electronic record.
I have a few due to the HUGE size of the artwork. In some cases they are beautiful and cheap pieces of film art. I sold my "hobbit" animated movie set (2 disc) for good money.
I don't know RCA was thinking with Ced, I have seen the video quality and it is terrible. Vhd looked pretty good, as well as a nice alternative to laserdisc. Not to change subject but does anyone know how much better super vhs was over regular vhs?
Never heard of it before, but sounds quite interesting, took me into some interesting reading on wikipedia while bored in class the other day
