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obsolete since it was stopped being manufactured in 1984 by RCA Corporation.<br />
Although RCA Corporation is long gone, as well with the <strong>CED</strong> dream that the<br />
company carried, there are however many persons who still have <strong>CED</strong> machines<br />
and the discs that go with them. They are abandoned, with no one to turn to<br />
ever.<br />
Since RCA stopped manufacture and they were bought out by General Electric,<br />
users of <strong>CED</strong> discs and machines had no place to turn since GE or Thompson<br />
Consumer Electronics (The GE subsiduary that controls RCA today.) do not<br />
support <strong>CED</strong>. However this can change and will change if <strong>CED</strong> users join<br />
together.<br />
VHS, Laserdisc, and Satellite Television have taken today's market by<br />
storm leaving little or no room for obsolete medias such as Beta, <strong>CED</strong>, and<br />
even<br />
reel-to-reel players an recorders. With these new thecnologies out there<br />
today<br />
who wants and old and potentially outdated system like <strong>CED</strong>. Even with this<br />
truth<br />
there are least 200,000 people in the United States who have <strong>CED</strong> players that<br />
are still functioning today. How long will they last? This is the question<br />
that has<br />
long eluded many, since neither GE or Thompson will provide support or parts<br />
for<br />
these machines, in time they will eventually wear out. It has been rumored<br />
that<br />
before RCA Corporation was bought out, they had compiled a large stock of<br />
replacement parts and needles. This is true, but the supply is dwindling and<br />
will<br />
(estimated by the year 2005 at minimal usage) soon be out. How exactly will<br />
this<br />
be stopped? At the current time it cannot be stopped.<br />
The only way that this diminishing supply of <strong>CED</strong> parts and supplies can<br />
be restocked is to find someone to manufacture the parts and supplies. No<br />
one<br />
carries or supplies them anymore. This maybe a truth for now but can soon<br />
change. The estimated 200,000 <strong>CED</strong> users left could join together to create a<br />
financial fund a purchase the rights to the capacitance electronic disc<br />
system,<br />
including disc manufacturing stampers. Most people would think that this is<br />
an<br />
insane act, if one person would attempt to purchase the rights, they would be<br />
correct However 200,000 people could accomplish such a feat with no trouble<br />
whatsoever. So it is only a matter of time when <strong>CED</strong> user's join together to<br />
re-establish the use of <strong>CED</strong> into the entertainment world.<br />
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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 09:54:20 -0400<br />
<strong>From</strong>: donald baraf<br />
MIME-Version: 1.0<br />
To: Tom Howe <br />
Subject: Re: <strong>CED</strong> Digest Vol. 2 No. 40
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