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Vintage RCA Videodisc player... or, Video from an 'LP'

submitted by spoco2

1 decade 5 years 2 months 1 week ago

You thought LaserDiscs were old school. Before LaserDiscs came along using their new fangled lasers, there was RCA Videodiscs, which were basically a record that held video. The format was introduced in 1981 and died in 1986 and was a USA technology from start to finish, which has not been seen since.

This is a great video of someone using one, which shows the caddy system that these players used in order to keep the discs clean.

They fascinate me as they are basically an extension of vinyl records taken to the extreme.

For more information than you could ever want to know on these things, check out this exhaustive site

10 Comments

kagenin says...

My girlfriend has a couple crates full of 80s animated movies in this archaic format. Her player needs a new stylus cartridge, however.

Nice, I'd never even heard about these. And Blade Runner ftw

nice post

>> ^kagenin:
My girlfriend has a couple crates full of 80s animated movies in this archaic format. Her player needs a new stylus cartridge, however.

That's pretty darn awesome... of course I would imagine a new stylus would be next to impossible to obtain anymore.

Moving this video to spoco2's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

Oh fine, I'll *promote this vintage piece of technical wizardry.

Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by original submitter spoco2.

Croccydile says...

Impressive technology both then and perhaps even now, that some players still work and its freaking vynil. I remember all the rich kids in the early 80s had one of these! Of course when the NES made its debut nobody cared about CED players anymore.

From the youtube page "in general the video quality is quite good, considering that the newest disc made is 22 years old. I don't think that 22-year-old VHS tapes would hold up quite so well."

I have the 1984 cassette release of Star Wars on my hands and they still look reasonably good considering their age, the most impressive bit is that VHS Hi-Fi is nearly CD quality on all the old commercial tapes I have despite how old they are. It's hard to tell the difference between DVD stereo sound and VHS Hi-Fi on some of them.

Man, I never realized how much Blade Runner's soundtrack sucked.

^ I hope you're kidding... that audio is not from Blade Runner, Blade runner has one of the greatest movie soundtracks ever.

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