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The <strong>CED</strong> Future<br />
(The NCDL Newsletter, <strong>CED</strong> Project)<br />
Part Twelve: One Step Closer<br />
By: Daniel P. Cayea<br />
For eleven previous updates I have written about the 'The <strong>CED</strong> Future'.<br />
This time I write to tell you about my discoveries in the finding <strong>CED</strong><br />
manufacturing systems and hardware. Many have made many suggestions that<br />
the public interest corporation, 'Capacitance Corporation' that we have for<br />
the project of keeping our system ongoing. Some of the suggestions that<br />
were made, were such that our PIC (Public Interest Corporation) offer an<br />
electronics company an offer to remanufacture diamond stylus cartridges. I<br />
have contacted several electronics companies, such as Digi-Key, whom<br />
haven't heard of our cartridges and hence them wouldn't say anything about<br />
the possibility of remanufacture.<br />
Amung the other questions that you have asked me through your replies to<br />
'The <strong>CED</strong> Future' or to your constructive criticism, such as where is the<br />
pressing machines that RCA had, or would we go along in the enhancement of<br />
our system? I have some answers and suggestions. As for the disc pressing<br />
machine which has been put lower on the list of priorities, as I am sure<br />
that somewhere in storage at Thomson Consumer Electronics it lies. However<br />
I jump to other question about, how can we enhance our obsolete media.<br />
><strong>From</strong> my personal understanding in the system, the video and sound signals<br />
are derived from certain conductors (loosely speaking) in the needle relay<br />
the signals to be diciphered. How does this apply to the enhancement of<br />
our system? I have a project that I would like all of you to help me with.<br />
According to Tom Howe's FAQ on the <strong>CED</strong> <strong>Magic</strong> series of pages, that the<br />
standard revolutions per minute (RPM) for the RCA <strong>CED</strong> Player is 450.<br />
Others have suggested that since our media is a contact media that it may<br />
not sustain a higher number of RPM's. I opt this, that those with broken<br />
players and useless stylus cartriges try to increase the RPM number of the<br />
turntables by some means or another, load the needle into position.<br />
Increase the revolutions per minute until the needle is no longer stable on<br />
the disc. In what I mean by stable is that the needle will smoothly ride<br />
the groove of the discs. I figure after increasing the RPM's to a certain<br />
amount that 10 seconds before instability is reached use that RPM number as<br />
the highest stability point. I have done the experiment and have found<br />
some promising results. However before I release the results, I'd like you<br />
to perform the same experiment if possible during your free time and send<br />
me your results as well. After getting at least 5 different results I will<br />
publish them in a future edition of the <strong>CED</strong> Future, or post them in general<br />
in <strong>CED</strong> Digest. It is seriously figured that if the RPM level for the discs<br />
can be increased, the playback time of the disc is increased as well as<br />
video & sound quality improved.<br />
On to another subject in our quest to improve our nostalgic system. The<br />
footwork of improvement. I have read many articles of constructive<br />
critisicism on this project. I have read of those who believe that this<br />
project is futile, and I have read criticism about those who think that<br />
this project is positive and novel. I thank both parties for their
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