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Post by Matthew on May 30, 2004 17:52:18 GMT -5
I was recently re-introduced to the video format popular in the early 80's called CED's. They are big record discs in a plastic caddy that contain movies. The biggest maker of these discs and players was RCA, before Thompson bought them. Does anybody here have one?
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2004 22:33:15 GMT -5
Ha, the middle school I went to, and later taught at, had a few of these they used to show interactive math-related movies, something called "Jasper Woodbury" I believe . . . lol . . . next time I head over there I'll check to see if there are any left. The players, not the math games.
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Post by ulkesh54 on May 30, 2004 23:42:53 GMT -5
CED was introduced in the 70s around the same time as laserdiscs. Laserdisc beat out CEDs since they are optical discs that do not deteriorate and they also came to offer digital audio as well as superior video as compared to CEDs. I'd recommend a Laserdisc player over a CED since there are thousands of movies on Laserdisc at near DVD quality with audio that is sometimes better than DVD.
I personally have three Laserdisc players and think they're great. We had laserdisc instead of VHS in my house. You can find some good used Laserdisc players on eBay. Some of the machines made in the late 90s by Pioneer also play DVDs. Pioneer still makes a laserdisc/DVD player today.
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Post by Adam D. on May 31, 2004 2:53:25 GMT -5
Speaking off video formats, Looks like DVD is trying to take over everything. When a new movie comes out, it's advertised for the DVD format and not the VHS format anymore. It will be very hard to totally switch to DVD format, as VHS has been around and number one for more than 25 years. Alot of people like old movies, and alot of old movies will not be remastered to the DVD format. I personally don't like DVDs because they are so easy to scratch and break, and I don't think that will be around for much to long. There is already something out that can record many channels and movies and shows at the same time, and does not need a addition to it, such as a video cassette or cd. I don't know the name of it. Video stores such as Blockbuster Video Etc. will soon be history once things go totally digital.
I've never owned a Laser Disc player. They were not really popular. back then it was BETA and VHS formats that were going strong. first it was BETA when Sony invented the video cassette recorder and soon after that the 8mm film projector became obsolete, other then movie theaters.. The reason why VHS took over is because bigger cassette, longer hours of recording time. as in quality, BETA is better. News channels still use BETA to film news. I still have a few machines and they run like new, and the quality is almost perfect. I've never heard of CED.....
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Post by ulkesh54 on Jun 2, 2004 0:07:26 GMT -5
I actually quite like DVD, especially since most of them are recorded animorphically, which looks really good on my TV. For those without HD televisions though, this is probably not a big deal. The Beta that news stations is not the same thing as consumer Beta; it is of a much higher resolution. We had video 8 instead of Beta for recording
Laserdisc gained significant market share and there are thousands of titles available.
To give an idea of the quality of Laserdiscs,
VHS resolution: 240 lines
Cable TV: 330 lines
Super-VHS/ Video 8: 400 lines
Laserdisc: 425 lines
DVD: 480 lines
HDTV: variable, but true HD is at least 1080 lines
All of these resolutions are in interlaced format.
I'm assuming that you're talking about recording devices like TiVo. The harddrives on these have limited amounts of space for a certain number of hours (which varies depending on the level of quality that you want to record at). They do not have capacity currently for more than 100 hours.
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