Until recently this very large building was standing abandoned since the 80s. I have seen this same building in extreme dismay. Very very cool place. Lots of old paperwork still remained. Sadly it was torn down 6 months ago and all that remains of the once massive plant is a gravel lot.
I have lived in Bloomington, IN for a few years; I take care of a ton of medicaid recipients who worked for RCA. I had no clue that RCA based its Selectavision disc and player assembly in Indiana.
VideoDiscs are basically video's recorded onto a disc(like a record). The VideoDisc Players play the videodiscs using a needle , just like a record player.
Not exactly. Record needles ride in the groove and travel side to side AND up and down in the case of stereo. CEDs are read from a groove that moves up and down and a signal is created from the capacitance differences, hence the name Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED).The STYLUS used in a CED player is hardly the same as a record needle. It approximates it in name and such but it's a beast of different stripes.
Rush's Exit...Stage Left concert video originally was an exclusive on RCA selectavision. The same time the Laser Video Disc came out which was superior to the RCA, but you couldn't watch Rush on laser.
Fascinating to me that RCA was using record presses to make CED discs. But that was the biggest problem with them. In the early 80's my Junior College bought a couple Selectavision players and a bunch of classic movies for the dormitory TV lounges for us students to watch movies. After a year most of the disks were badly skipping to unplayable.
+wildbilltexas No wonder those CED discs wore out so easily. They spin too fast and the friction between the disc and the needle it's just too great and the needle with each pass damages the disc little by little until it becomes unreadable. Audio records switched from 78 rpm to 33 rpm for that particular reason (and to store more songs )
The stylus did not travel in the groove! It rode the up and down movement of the grooves. It uses the changes in CAPACITANCE to create the electrical signal. A lot of you completely misunderstand the RECORD analogy...first of all it's not at all like an LP audio record. Secondly the stylus does wear out but the CEDs themselves are still working over 35 years later in some cases. I have dozens, and come collectors have gone for the entire set of over 1,000, minus the really rare titles. And what you also don't realize is that Asian markets had a similar system called VHD for Video High Density that lasted into the 90s. It's not compatible but discs for both systems are still out there and work. The disc itself was in a 'caddy' and covered in a lubricant for protection. If you touched the disc surface you were certain to damage it, hence the protective caddy. If you want to know more than you ever thought you'd want to go to cedmagic.com and visit either the main site or come join us on the forum...member kitchensynch
Mi habitación está ambientada como la sección de horror de un videoclub ochentero-noventero, con posters, promocionales y las revistas “En Video” y “Cine en Video”, la mayoría de las películas están en formato VHS pero también hay algunas en formato BETAMAX y CED VIDEODISC (RCA-SELECTAVISION). IGNACIO MARTELL
Damn. And now we can burn HD Blu-Ray discs on computer. My, how times have changed. Also hard to believe this was nearly 30 years ago. RIP Selectavision, VHS, BetaMax, LaserDisc, HD-DVD, and soon CD and DVD. Even Blu-Ray will be obsolete in the next five years or so.
was this in Bloomington Indiana or the RCA on Sherman Drive inn Indianapolis? My dad was an electircal engineer who worked on this in Shermn Drive RCA in Indiapapolis In
Thus JVC, Pioneer, MCA, and Philips infiltrated, stole secrets and reversed engineered them. Thus creating Laserdisc and VHS that drove RCA into bankruptcy.
While the CED was cheaper than VHS, it could not record television programs. Also, VHS was already out when the CED was released, meaning that this thing was at a major disadvantage when it was released. It was supposed to be released a few years before VHS, but legal issues within RCA and technical problems resulted in the late release of the system.
But technology created these same jobs which did not exist before that. From the 1970s on back the only way to see a movies was to go to a theater or through a movie projector if you had one.
They were probably creating a lot less environmental damage then similar industries do in China today, which is where many of the electronic gadgets come from now. Forty of the most polluted cities on Earth are in China, the standards may have been less they they are now in the early 80s but at least they had some, China really has none at all.
