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have however had 2 stylus cartridges short out on me, once on my<br />
Sears/Hitachi player which uses the funny long thin cartridges, and once<br />
on my SGT 250, which uses the more common large cartridges, this was when<br />
I was watching for the first time a disc I had gotten new in the<br />
shrinkwrap! Both times, the sound and picture appeared to "freeze" for a<br />
second (more often experienced on old early-80's laserdiscs, the sound<br />
effect is also similar to a CD stuck on one part, repeating the same<br />
fraction of a second over and over.) After this the sound and picture<br />
dropped out entirely into a series of white horizontal lines on the<br />
screen. I often hit Pause for a second when strange problems come up and<br />
that seems to cure it, but these times the player would not do anything<br />
else after I tried to return to play mode, playing other discs brought<br />
nothing.<br />
New question: Does anyone know of any program material that is available<br />
ONLY on <strong>CED</strong>? Besides the opening RCA logos, and instore demos, I have a<br />
few discs that I haven't seen on any other formats. The NFL highlight<br />
discs are actually each composed of 4 separate films that look like they<br />
were distributed on 16mm film. I just got the Wimbledon 79/80 disc this<br />
week, and that also appears to be taken from different 16mm films (I<br />
haven't watched all of it yet.) I don't think the 1980 Olympics "Miracle<br />
of Lake Placid" disc is available anywhere else either. One of my<br />
favorite <strong>CED</strong>s, and among the first load I ever picked up, is Family<br />
Entertainment Playhouse, which is 4 Learning Corporation of America 16mm<br />
films shown in schools telling "stories with a message". The "Mr. Gimme"<br />
film is especially hilarious! I have an animated Hansel and Gretel<br />
full-length movie done with animated figures, made in the 1950's and put<br />
on disc by RCA, which I have not even seen listed in any video movie<br />
guides, so this film may be pretty rare too. The MysteryDisc interactive<br />
discs were originally produced for laserdisc, but "A Week At The Races"<br />
was made for <strong>CED</strong> (I like how the old guy on it says the word<br />
"videodisc"). Although Jane Fonda's Workout started as an RCA Videodiscs<br />
production, it's still available on VHS, and I have seen Dr. Spock's<br />
"Caring for your Newborn" on VHS as well.<br />
One final note, I just saw a DVD player at the Good Guys yesterday, all<br />
they had was a Panasonic demo disc, there aren't any movies out for it<br />
yet. The claims of "Superior to laserdisc" are as false as the first RCA<br />
promo's claim of it having "clear, beautiful pictures." The demo disc<br />
includes a slow camera pan across the front of the player, with shadows<br />
on it that have that awful "pixelated" appearance that has plagued every<br />
other digital video format I've seen. It doesn't look as awful as DSS but<br />
it is still completely unacceptable and I will never give up my<br />
laserdiscs for it. I do look forward to DVD's becoming an even bigger<br />
failure than <strong>CED</strong>, then I can get a $10 DVD player at a thrift store and<br />
watch the demo disc at home and laugh at it all the time.<br />
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<strong>CED</strong> Digest Vol. 2 No. 9 3/1/97
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