[NJARC] RCA videodisc

[ScottMarshall at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/3/06 9:42:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
Billoradio at aol.com writes:

I  believe these were played with a stylus. The things put a financial   
hurtin 
on RCA as I recal


Yes, I worked for RCA when these were sold. The project lost  about $100 
million dollars each of the three years they were marketed. It was  considered a 
technical success but a marketing failure -- the VHS tape  penetration was too 
great by the time the CED came out.
 
The David Sarnoff Library museum has a working CED player the run Star Wars  
on a CT-100 (1954 first color TV set) for visitors. Ask Alex to demonstrate it 
 at the next NJARC meeting.
 
Scott