Movie Talk - The terrible CED Video disc

It's time to look at another old obsolete video format. The CED video disc, which was released in 1981.

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[ferrybu-odty]

I would like to see more Movie location videos. Its unbelievable how you did them. Such a great job

[Sweetasthesun]

Nice video with good content too! Good to have you back Niki! 🇸🇪🤝🏻🇩🇰

[scooterboi]

I've owned every home video format here, but have never seen a side by aside comparison of clips from each. Well done! Thanks so much for posting this.👍

[ChristopherSobczak]

Thanks for making such an informative and well made video. I recently bought a CED at a convention and knew nothing about them. Not only was this video was very informative, it was presented well. Have a great day and I look forward to watching your other videos.

[michaelmartin]

There is one thing most do not understand because they were not around then.

The main reason we had video rental stores everywhere at that time was the insane cost of the movies. Even a "garbage" film new on tape was normally around $100. Xanadu, Buckaroo Banzai, Raise the Titanic, each of those if you wanted to buy a tape was around $100 each. And one of the first "discounted" big movies was Star Wars, which was sold for "only $80" in 1982.

However, for those of us that wanted to own our movies, CED was the best option. The movies were only around $20 each, so we could buy 4-5 movies for the cost of a single videotape movie. The cost of "videos" did not drop until the early 90s, when they finally came down to around $20 each.

I had a CED, and also a huge collection of around 50 disks. And I did not buy my first "new videotape" until 1992, they were just too damned expensive. And when you have kids, having 10 disks or so that they can watch is a lot easier than videotapes. Especially if they are so young they know by the cover what it is, and can not yet read the name you put on the side of the tape you recorded yourself off the TV.

[WatchitforDays]

Fascinating! Thank you for sharing such a detailed video on this CED video format.

[RobbinRams]

Recently found your channel! Love your movie locations videos❤️

[MissTaken]

I can remember a friend of mine back when I was 12, invited me to her place to watch a movie. Her family had this weird player with what I thought were records that played movies. I had never seen something like it before nor ever again after but I explained it to many people who thought I was making it up or misremembering.
Thank you SO MUCH for clearing up what has always been a mystery for me. I KNEW I'd seen a video player that played what looked like records but they came in a hard case that got inserted into the player to release the disk. I knew it!!

I have been Validated!!! :)

[sonnyanderson]

Thanks for all the work you do! Just discovered your channel today and I'm really enjoying your content.

[johnny]

Good to see you back online after 1 year away.

[peterkastrup-larsen]

Awesome video Niki! Your content is always so informative and engaging! Your dedication and hard work are truly evident in the high-quality content you consistently produce! I can't wait to see what you have in store for us next. 🔥🎥

[etherealdreamerart]

That CED thing looks tedious. 😯 Glad we had VHS and DVDs and eventually bluray. Love your videos. Very informative. 😃

[DaveTexas]

CED is the one common video format I never owned. I bought a LaserDisc player specifically because there were some Olivia Newton-John titles available exclusively on MCA’s DiscoVision, including her 1978 TV special. That special was never released on any other format, so I went with LD as my "high-end" format. I’m very glad I did; a friend bought a CED player and the constant skipping/looping/static was just terrible. While I’ve replaced most of the 200+ titles I bought on LD with DVD and Blu-Ray, there are still a handful of LDs in my collection that have never turned up on any other format. As far as I know, the extended director’s cut of Peter Bogdanovich’s Texasville has never turned up again.

Anyway, I have a handful of CED discs that I bought for about $0.50 each just to have that format in my collection — I’ve tried to collect at least one example of every commercially available audio and video format ever made — but I’ve never been able to watch them. They’d probably be nearly unwatchable anyway. They just look cool!

[erickleefeld]

Their scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn’t stop to think if they should.

[damonappel]

"...so maybe this one has been played 499 times..." --great slam. 😂

[rtperrett]

This format was a dead end, consumers were right not to buy into the hype of it.

[DeenaMilkers]

the CED wasnt actually read by the stylus, that was just used for tracking. the disc was read by a sensor attached to the stylus that could measure the distance from the disc by measuring the strength of the capacitor that it and the disc formed (hence the C in CED)

[BrianJ]

Oh yes the quality of the video was much better when the players and the disks were new. First experience of stereo movies at home when I was a kid too.

[WhiteJarrah]

I never owned a CED player, but there is a video that RCA produced showing how the disks were made. Instead of film, the source footage came from a reel to reel videotape. They would literally playback the tape reel transfer it to the vinyl record. Using a tape source might explain the static in the audio and video.

[Jeepguy]

Found about 35-40 of these at a flea market mall today. Thought it was movie posters on plastic at first. Then thought it was laserdisc. But anyways I got 3 of them for $7 lol. Fast times at ridgemont high, Mr mom and Mary poppins. Don’t have a player but still added something different to my collection. Awesome video