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I need a working player, preferably with a remote. Drop me a line if<br />
you have one.<br />
-James Vida<br />
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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 13:14:14 -0800 (PST)<br />
<strong>From</strong>: Jesse Skeen<br />
To: Tom Howe <br />
Subject: Re: <strong>CED</strong> Digest Vol. 2 No. 46<br />
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Got a question for everyone: How many of you, when buying discs, take<br />
them out of the covers to check for condition and/or if it's the right<br />
movie, or play the first few minutes as soon as you get them?<br />
Part of the appeal of my <strong>CED</strong> collection is that there are literally<br />
thousands of hours of material that I have never seen; one of the biggest<br />
allures of the format is not being able to see the disc too (just like<br />
under normal use you would never see the spool of tape inside an<br />
8-track.) I like to be surprised when I pick out a movie I haven't<br />
watched yet and know nothing of what it's about.<br />
However, I just ran into a disaster. Going through some of my old VHS<br />
tapes recorded off TV, back when I was so poor I had only one VCR and had<br />
to tape movies off independent TV stations, I was watching some of the<br />
commercials with my closed-captions turned on and a promo for a showing<br />
of "Hard Country" came on. What was funny was that the master they were<br />
using was captioned, so whatever captions were present in the clips they<br />
were showing showed up on the screen. This station always used movies in<br />
their original format, unedited (complete with bad language and stuff<br />
until they got a ton of complaints; they're now a Fox affiliate) and I'd<br />
never seen captions on any of these; so I got out my <strong>CED</strong> of "Hard<br />
Country", which I'd been meaning to watch anyway since it looked like an<br />
interesting movie, and it turned out to be disc 2 of "Never Say Never<br />
Again!" This was the first time I had gotten the wrong movie when trying<br />
to watch one; the only other time was when I had 2 copies of "Arthur" and<br />
one of them turned out to have "Game of Death" inside. I have no other<br />
copies of Hard Country though so I'll just have to keep an eye out for<br />
another copy.<br />
Does anyone else do what I do and just await surprises, or do you check<br />
the disc right away to at least make sure it's the right one?<br />
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<strong>From</strong>: "Daniel P. Cayea"<br />
To: <br />
Subject: National Capacitance Disc Library<br />
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 20:55:09 -0500<br />
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