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I was working in an Electronics Store when these came out and I remember the first day.
The player was hooked up, TV turned on and Play pressed, pretty much everyone was underwhelmed by the picture, not that it was bad but the owner of the store was big into Laserdiscs and the CED suffered badly by comparison.
The skipping was an issue from day one as mentioned, also there were artifacts in the picture, little sniglets here and there on the screen, not really bad but still disappointing for a format that had such a big build up. It was like "We have VHS why do we need this?"
They are pretty cool in that they are basically a mechanical means of reproducing video!
I have a couple of the discs on display in my living room, mostly because the artwork on the big cartridges looks really nice.
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