Dorothy on old RCA 'CED' disc

[Phil Nelson]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

Wow! The discs still play!

Indeed, they do. This article describes how I refurbished my player.

http://www.antiqueradio.org/WardsGEN...ideoPlayer.htm

There is an active CED collector community. The CED Magic website has extensive information about the format, specs and restoration tips for every player, a discussion forum, and so on.

I feel like CED nerds are in about the same position as TV nerds who collected 1940s TVs in the 1960s and 1970s. The players and discs are available cheap or even free at garage sales, etc., and ordinary people look at them funny for wanting to preserve this obsolete rubbish, much less use it.

I will haul my player back to the workshop and try it out on that older 1980s TV, to investigate the shakiness issue. My son was all excited to see the player working when he visited here during Thanksgiving, but disappointed when every disc looked unstable on the new flat screen.

Phil Nelson
Phil's Old Radios
http://antiqueradio.org/index.html