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The Cleanest RCA Videodisc Player You'll Ever See!

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This player was acquired by me as part of a collection that belonged to Gunter John, the Head of Mastering at RCA's Rockville Road factory. It was open and appeared to be new in the box. After a full service it roared to life. It looks and operates fantastic. It has everything that would have came with it new from the factory. It is a SKT400, the last player that RCA produced. This specific player was built Monday January 9th 1984. It was most likely purchased by Gunter from the RCA Family Store, where employees could purchase RCA items at a discounted employee price.

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@matthewfarmer2520 2 месяца назад

That RCA player is 40 years old. I was 8 in 1984 im 48 now.

@JOAOVICTOR-ko9ye 2 месяца назад

Amazing!

@sturkrazee288 2 месяца назад

Yep that's pretty clean alright!!

@kennethlee494 2 месяца назад

With no skipping it is possible that was a demo only model of the player. They were produced with a heavier stylus pressure against the disc. This made them play really well but had the disadvantage of wearing out the discs quickly. I worked in a video store in the early to mid 80's and we had a demo model of this player, 10 plays was about the most you could get from the disc without degradation of audio and video quality.

@ketonicdude 2 месяца назад

Hello Kenneth, this player doesn't skip because it is fully serviced with a new stylus and a disc in good condition. If properly cared for the player and disc will produce flawless playback. The demonstration model you speak of is the SJT101. Please watch my other videos on how to service and maintain the players. Thanks.

@yakadoodledongywongy8718 Месяц назад

Mines cleaner. Brand new used once still boxed.

@kubrickenigma7977 2 месяца назад

Can one pump the players AV through a receiver? I'm curious as to your assessment of the sound quality. It being uncompressed on vinyl, I imagine it sounds great if the dolby stereo discs can be decoded via Prologic.

@ketonicdude Месяц назад

The sound and color on CED is quite good actually. You can defiantly hook it up to a receiver. In fact RCA made a receiver for it, the MSR130 I think it was. It was also supposed to be a part of their Dimensia system in 1984 but when the program got cancelled they decided not to include the SKT425 CED Player. But CED does not have Dolby stereo, it uses CX noise reduction.

@kubrickenigma7977 Месяц назад

@ketonicdude Thanks for the rundown. The Dimensia would have been a premo mid-80s console setup. Wasn't there still an RCA jack on the back of the television for the CED model you mentioned. Have you ever tried running CED through DPL? I have laserdiscs that aren't Dolby encoded, but are CX and have a pretty solid spread through a DPL reciever. Just curious.

@ketonicdude Месяц назад

@@kubrickenigma7977 yes they still left the jacks and everything else in place, just omitted the CED name from the remote and receiver. The SJT400 and SKT400 both had a communications jack on the back to allow it to be operated by the Dimensia TV.

@MarcoAntonioJoaquim Месяц назад

Irmão não tenho como comprar um desse é um sonho 😢

@ketonicdude Месяц назад

They can be quite expensive depending on your location. But if you are in the US you can find them fairly easily through various online buy and sell pages and usually for pretty cheap and people just want to get rid of them.

@marconormandin8276 2 месяца назад

No skipping 😮

@ketonicdude 2 месяца назад

Good clean discs don't skip. Skipping is caused by either the silicone that is coated on the disc to protect it from the stylus has settled in the grooves and the stylus has to push it back out, usually this clears up after a play or two, or the disc was stacked and the grooves got crushed, there is no fix for this.

@AcAwesomeAndrew 2 месяца назад

If you have good discs it won’t skip. The tricky part is getting good discs. Even then sometimes it helps to pre-play them.

@briangoldberg4439 2 месяца назад

Did CED have letterbox, or were they all pan and scan?

@AcAwesomeAndrew 2 месяца назад

99% sure that they are all presented in 4:3 aspect ratio. I’ve never watched one that was letterboxed.

@ketonicdude Месяц назад

@@AcAwesomeAndrew actually there were two or three titles at least. Ones that come to mind are Amadeus, and Monte Python and the Holy Grail.

@ketonicdude Месяц назад

Yes there were several titles that were released in Letterbox, Monte Python and the Holy Grail is the most notable.

@briangoldberg4439 Месяц назад

@@ketonicdude Thanks!

@AcAwesomeAndrew Месяц назад

@@ketonicdude strange how I didn’t notice that when I watched Monty python. Then again it has been a while so maybe I just forgot. Interesting that there were any titles in letterbox really.