RCA SFT-100w CED Player from 1981. Explanation and Demonstration. (SFT100) 

Love these short snapshots of forgotten analog video history!

Glad to see one of these still working. I remember watching another video around 10 years ago where they replaced the stylus. It was such a shame; i took trip to japan 7 years ago and i found a bunch of these discs super cheap at a second hand store but they didn't have the player so i was thinking what was i gonna do with those discs.... I should've bought at least one as a memento or put it on a record player and see what happens!

I knew this video was special!Awesome Ced player!

I like the idea of a caddy system for discs. Kind of wish we’d actually kept up that sort of thing with CD, DVD, etc. (Maybe if LaserDiscs had done it?)

Just picked this one up at the local thrift for $10. Thanks for the breakdown

I have one

Rebuilt a realistic selectavision disk player years ago. Have many disks. Sadly, hard to find diamond stylists cartridges to replace.

Thanks for keeping the memory of this mutilated unicorn alive. It's a cautionary tale that could serve as a lesson today. ......such squandered potential.... (sigh)

My RCA SGT-200 skips through the whole disc because the motor insists on running the carriage too fast. Anyone know how to fix that? Hope it's not an IC or something.

I have the title Neighbors CED, If you want it I can send it to you at no charge.

Thirty years of R& D went into this machine. RCA dropped it too quickly. They charged too much fir the player and didnt reakize they would make millions from the Discs, just like they did in the early 1950’s with the 45 auto changer record player. The original player costs $12 , but every teenager collectively spent millions of dollars buying 45’ and 45 extended play records. In the 1980’s sgort sighted bean counters were running RCA, so much that they thought the merger with GE was a good idea. It was the end of a great American company that was like family to work with.

Did you sell it yet?

Just found one new in box!!

The topic is nice, the reason why I found this channel. But the way the footage is presented feels very strange to me. I'm not native English/US, but even to my it feels like a movie for kids or a kind of humor I can't get. Very strange.