Mary Poppins for the Sunday movie night, and some ultra close up pics I took with my cheapo microscope! (The disc was already cracked/damaged)

My first disc was disc two of "The Longest Day" I found it at the goodwill bins and paid around $2 for it. I came across disc one and Robin Hood at a different store today, $3 each. Once I find a player for a price I like I will be getting more serious about collecting them.

I’ve been wanting to get into CED collecting for the past few years and finally found a decent buy locally on Facebook. Got all these for $25. I don’t have a player currently, but maybe down the line. Going to look nice in my media room with all my other multimedia.

Jaws is one of my top five all-time favorite movies. It’s even more fun on CED!

As the title says, I’m watching Fright Night for the first time. My disc has a few skips and rough spots, I’m hoping they’ll even out in the next watch thru.

Jaws 3 is one of those so bad it’s good movies for me. Its biggest problem is that it’s boring.

for those interested, here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/958878400297386/?ref=search&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post

I'm in Canada and trying to purchase RCA SJT 200, 300, 400. Already tried Ebay and can't find anything that is working. I am looking either locally or to have one shipped to play my collection on. If you are selling one or know someone who is please reply. Thanks 😊

New function belt and a lot of tar cleaned up.

Sgt250 function belt is tar. To put on a new one do I need to remove that black gear? I've tried gently pulling straight up but it's not budging.

While searching around Ebay, I came across a seller who was selling CEDs. At first, everything seemed normal until I checked the photos they shared on the CEDs... I found in each of their photos that they had opened the caddy and taken out the disc with their bare hands to show the "Very Good" condition of the disc... The one example I provided shows this along with how much they are trying to get for the now nice wall art smh.

Are there any online shops besides the usual search on eBay to get a working CED player here in Europe (preferably inside the EU due to postage)? And things to look out for if there are no alternatives to eBay?

Today's movie: 007 You only live twice.

I recently purchased a nice working RCA Selectavision. I have the coax hooked directly to my TV, but when the disc "skips" it sort of resets the input to the TV and the TV's on-screen display kicks on for like 10 seconds before disappearing. This gets kind of annoying. Would some kind of coax booster like this help?

https://www.amazon.com/GE-Amplifier-Pixelated-Low-Strength-42178/dp/B07NF6JYJV?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.UQQ9bCv4imyafPAV4tAsCnUC3UTnNePLHcnIB6lOFLbCtajz5ckqMqxgrbc-iv9Q285kAVBkmmUJnVw0yWULNiR2MQlQsSUN7w5aFIgwaXNM6jaGkDCWtM5QgCHSv2Et46ma6tUsPdAWqtnN3l4dALQt7gB4wnuvv72fP8Y6egs6vrP3mLx63dy4xpN6nLWXASjpnpWkBMt3jPA5Igi3mit5ooIM6RoJiDekLO1Om1w.36i0SOdXpBph2nNgQx7Am8wl6YZP08Gdv9WmhRjDq24&dib_tag=se&keywords=coax%2Bcable%2Bsignal%2Bbooster&qid=1779558960&sr=8-5&th=1

If not, is there anything I can do?

For u/DuranFanWI I spread out the center stack among some of the side racks and put the rest vertical like this.

I'll be honest I'm quite disappointed in ced in general. I have collected laserdisc and VHS for years. I grew up in the era. I've always had my eye on selectavision but most of the players for sale locally go way higher than I would pay. So a few weeks back I picked one up for $20 locally. Cleaned it up and bought a couple disks. It works but the disks that I got are pretty poor quality. So I have bought a few more now off eBay and every single one has at least a few bad spots in it. Skipping and stuff. I've played them through a few times to let them self clean and while it has improved some disks out of the 6 movies I have now none of them play all the way through without any issues. Is this normal for this media or have I just gotten several duds ? Ive dealt with disk rot on laserdisc but it isn't near as bad as what I'm seeing quality wise on these ced.

Getting distorted image on the screen and no audio other than occasional static any help would be appreciated thanks pretty new to the ceds

Thanks

Sorry couldn’t figure out how to add to original post here’s a video when I finally got it to play

Thanks again

I posted a few weeks back about a collection of CEDs and players I rescued from going to the landfill.

I finally had a chance to catalog what I’ve got and I’m hoping to get some feedback from the community as to what to do with it all.

I’d love to get the entire collection to someone who could make use of it but the discs alone are too heavy for shipping, so maybe I could arrange individual pieces if necessary. Or I could deliver in the Southern Ontario Canada area.

Players

Two RCA SJT 100

RCA SGT 200

RCA SJT 300

None of the units are tested and it’s unknown if they are working.

CED list

RCA CED VideoDisc Movie List

Here’s the full list:

The African Queen

Alice in Wonderland

American Hot Wax

An American in Paris

Annie

Back to the Future

Barefoot Contessa

Battlestar Galactica

Bells Are Ringing

The Best of Judy Garland

The Black Stallion

The Black Stallion Returns

Blue Hawaii

The Blues Brothers

Blue Thunder

Brannigan

Brigadoon

Call Me Bruce

Candleshoe

Carbon Copy

City Heat

Clash of the Titans

The Cotton Club

The Court Jester

The Dark Crystal

The Devil and Daniel Mouse

The Dirty Dozen

The Dresser

Dumbo

Dune

Easter Parade

The Elephant Man

Elvis: Aloha from Hawaii

Elvis: That's the Way It Is

Elvis on Tour

Enemy Mine

Escape to Witch Mountain

Explorers

Firefox

Flashdance

Flash Gordon

Footloose

For the Love of Benji

Frankenstein

Friendly Persuasion

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Ghostbusters

Gidget

Gigi

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Godzilla: King of the Monsters!

The Golden Seal

Gorky Park

Grease

Gus

Hard to Hold

Hawaii

Hello, Dolly!

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

How to Marry a Millionaire

The Idolmaker

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

Intermezzo

It Happened One Night

Jailhouse Rock

Jason and the Argonauts

Jesus of Nazareth

The Jewel of the Nile

The Karate Kid

King Creole

King Kong

Kiss Me Goodbye

Ladyhawke

The Last Chase

The Last Starfighter

The Last Unicorn

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

Let It Be

The Love Bug

Love at First Bite

The Man of La Mancha

Mary Poppins

Meet Me in St. Louis

Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn

Mr. Mom

Mr. Roberts

The Muppet Movie

The Muppets Take Manhattan

My Fair Lady

The NeverEnding Story

The Odd Couple

Oh, God!

Oklahoma!

Planet of the Apes

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Return of the Jedi

Saturday Night Fever

Singin' in the Rain

Soylent Green

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Wars

The Terminator

Tootsie

Top Secret!

The Twilight Zone: The Movie

White Christmas

Witness

The Wizard of Oz

Zorro

I knew what CEDs were through my interest in the obscurity. I never intended to really buy a player or anything but as fate would have it as I was walking from from school, I passed *two* players set on the curb as junk. I took the one that was more visually appealing to my eye without knowing the intricacies of the model, nor do I really care that much in hindsight except that perhaps I could have taken a working stylus from the other machine as well. Regardless I snagged the RCA model and put it in my closet for a few months until recently I decided to see if the machine actually worked. I didn't have any CEDs so I took the fact that it took power and exported video to my crt to be a good sign at all.

Because I didn't know if the machine would work and I didn't want to invest a lot of money into the project, I purchased a disc on eBay in lieu of finding anything local. I specifically purchased a disc that I'd like to have as a novelty display item regardless if the player (or indeed the disc) worked themselves, this disc being a pretty scuffed copy of Blade Runner for about 25 bucks. I love Blade Runner, just having the caddy as a framed wall piece would be enough. To my disappointment and surprise the disc did play with severe static and skipping before the introductory credits could finish, but it did play. At this point I wasn't sure whether the disc itself was marred or if the needle was. I was not about to purchase a new needle so instead I figured the worst I could do was ruin an already broken needle. I searched around and found someone recommending using isopropyl alcohol and a fine paint brush to very gently swap the needle. I did this.

I also inspected the disc. It was decently scuffed and potentially the issue itself. I understand the needle cleans out debris but if the needle itself is marred in debris, then I figured a clean disc is necessary. I very carefully in a controlled environment (my bed, on paper towels. Halfway out of the caddy) cleaned the disc with that same IPA. I also understand there is some sort of conductive coating on the disc that can get damaged with washing. I don't rightfully know if IPA will or won't damage that coating but I was of mind that I had nothing to lose. I used a wider paint brush but still fine and soft to gently brush the IPA along curvature, after which I did the same with a microfiber cloth. I repeated this on both sides and got a fair amount of a strange which chalky residue out which had dotted the disc.

For the moment of truth, I put the disc back in. The static was still there but to my shock, the disc kept playing after the opening credits. At this point I turned the machine off and pulled it out of my set-up to try and adjust the RF connection, thinking that to be the culprit. It might have been but nothing I did immediately adjusted it. I settled to have static in my picture taking the fact it was playing at all as a victory. Within moments the picture suddenly cleared up without the static at all. I rewound the disc to the start and watched it front to back last night! Minimal skipping, minimal visual errors, a solid "good" rated disc played as a "very good" relative to the format as it seems! That being said I'm not in the mind to start collecting but if i ever see something for the right price or out in the wild I might pick it up and give it the love it needs.

Also side note, this is my first time seeing the theatrical cut of Blade Runner and while I find 75% of the narration to be kinda bad, the 25% that is there adds to the film for me and I wouldn't personally remove the bad just to have the good because then it would feel empty and strange when the good narration does come on. Absolutely the Final Cut is the ultimate version, but I really enjoy the noir feeling of Hard Boiled Deckard. If the narration was written into the film instead of a studio mandate after the fact, it could have been really good I think.

Although when I did go to play it again today to get a picture, the static returned. I assume I have a bad RF cable.

I'm thinking of buying this online. Do you guys think this broken corner will give any issues loading?