From: (Neil Wagner) - CED Magic

never start making CED's again..... Geeez.... Whatever happened to the
good old days when people had discs to sell???? C'mon people this is
turning into something similiar to the DAT group I subscribed to.... After a
while all people wanted to do was create and sell bootleg tapes and not
talk about the technology anymore...... >>
AMEN!!!!! If I read one more posting asking for "MIB" on CED I'll quit
subscribing to the CED Digest. I love RCA's terrible format for what it was
and still is today...THE VIDEO EDSEL. Ford won't make you anymore Edsels and
you're not getting any new CED movies either. What's the point? The fun of
CED is that it is DEAD. Same reason I like LPs and 8-tracks, hell I NEVER buy
new stuff on LPs.
Tony
-and don't bombard me with hate mail, it'll only further cement my position on
this subject.
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From: LLP33
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 22:27:43 EST
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject: Re: CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 49
Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)
Now show the patents to the NSF!!!!
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Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 04:20:33 -0800
From: Tom Howe
To: ceds@teleport.com
Subject: SelectaVision Holotape
Mime-Version: 1.0
Hello All:
I've been asked to question, "How is it possible to record video on Saran
Wrap?", which in thicker form was the material used in RCA's early Holotape
format. RCA dumped the Holotape format in the development stage in favor of CED
for unerasible storage, and MagTape for erasible storage, with MagTape
eventually being dumped in favor of VHS. The following article published 28
years ago in _Spectrum_ was recently posted to the Dead Media list, and
provides a good explanation of how HoloTape worked:
Source: "Color TV tape player employs lasers and
holography"
IEEE Spectrum 6 (Dec 1969): page 28
"A laboratory model of a low-cost television color
tape player built around lasers and holography and
destined for home use in the early 1970s was exhibited