[ceebee23]

I have both an NTSC and a PAL player (yes they did release a PAL version) .... and a range of disks. The quality is slightly better than VHS with similar resolution but a better signal to noise ratio.

Interestingly RCA found that they sold fewer players than expected but vastly more disks than forecast.

Ironically playing the disks reduces the skipping ..so a new disk may skip but after a few plays the skipping is far less. A good stylus is a definite requirement.

CED was one of those things that I never expected to obtain. The PAL version was only released in the UK. But one day at a party a friend casually mentioned he had seen a weird disk video player in a local electronics store, literally a mile away from me.

This was in the late 1990s.

I rushed around the corner to this shop the next day. The owner had imported a few Hitachi players in the early 80s. So there was my holy grail .. brand new, in its box just waiting for me!!

(In the end I bought his two remaining players and shipped one to Tom at CED Magic in exchange for a US player).

The two players still work beautifully and I sourced stylii on eBay. (A very helpful man in Florida supplied me with them!!)

Blu Ray they aren't but still a pretty amazing technical achievement.