From: (Neil Wagner) - CED Magic

to me by others. People who have experience with these things.. One
method described to me regarding the bending of the end of the stylus
slightly above the stylus tip up above the area where the copper ribbon
contacts the end of the stylus... I have been told by several people that
when nothing else works.. that this sometimes brings life back to the
cartridge when you've got nothing else to loose.
Which brings me to the question?? What other techniques are others
aware of that restores or repairs a stylus??? Surely, there must be
"someone" who knows of a method, or a technique that is workable...
It seems perfectly logical to me that there is indeed a way. It seems
somewhat obvious that there would be some sort of manipulation, or
repairing technique of some sort..... Would anyone out there care to
enlighten everyone else?????
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Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 15:53:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jesse Skeen
To: Tom Howe
Subject: Re: CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 40
Mime-Version: 1.0
I would be all for becoming a "part-owner" of what remains of the
patented system, just so that whatever equipment still exists (like the
disc-pressing unit) is taken care of instead of thrown out as "junk". I
still think the most important future consideration is making sure
there's enough parts to keep the existing players working for as long as
possible. It WOULD be really cool to be able to make a few new discs just
for fun, but I don't know what practical use that would serve ("Men in
Black" on CED???) Remember the format died because there WAS no practical
use for it, since you already had laserdiscs, and even tapes, that were
better quality than CED. But that's the reason I like it so much :)
Is there anyone with graphics capabilites and a lot of free time on their
hands who would want to make pictures of what the covers of current
movies might look like on CED? I could already imagine "The Lion King"
complete with the red and yellow circle around the picture that RCA's
Disney movies all had. I have a picture someone made of what the Jurassic
Park laserdisc cover would have looked like if they still used the "MCA
DiscoVision" label!
I've also wondered if CEDs were still being made today if they would have
made the caddies transparent, like most audio cassette packaging is now.
I also wonder if they would've eventually put stereo signals on every
disc regardless of whether or not the movie was really in mono; I'm kind
of annoyed that the mono films with the later RCA opening didn't have
that in stereo. (When one TV station here started broadcasting in stereo,
they turned the signal on ONLY for stereo programs, and kept it off the
rest of the time! They often forgot to turn it on sometimes too, they
finally kept it on all the time after I complained!)
One more thought about the magic word "Digital": The cover of Gone with