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Technology Connections has a decent five video series on the history of LaserDisc. It's some of his earlier work so the production quality isn't quite where his

Technology Connections has a decent five video series on the history of LaserDisc. It's some of his earlier work so the production quality isn't quite where his newer videos are today but it's still worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFUoByWSHHoSTlUIxY7VkJLi https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFUoByWSHHoS... He also has a newer series on the far more obsucre CED (Capacitance Electronic Disc) from RCA that's really interesting. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFVP0SGNlBiBtFVkV5LZ7SOU https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFVP0SGNlBiB... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc

ljf 3y ago
Back in about 2008 I found a huge load of UK CED discs for sale, plus about 10 different players. As someone who'd been fascinated by vcd, I was interested in this other appendix media - sadly I didn't buy it all, but for the best, looked like a massive lot!
- ljf 3y ago
  Actually man would have been 2004 - it was this site that I lost days to - https://www.cedmagic.com/selectavision.html https://www.cedmagic.com/selectavision.html
Tokkemon 3y ago
I love Alec's work on the CED. So good and really nicely narrative-driven, which is kinda rare in this "let's review old technology" genre.
krallja 3y ago
Half As Interesting just put out a video about CED today! https://youtu.be/TScO0fsGdds?si=4jGSaUM7E4Gydagb https://youtu.be/TScO0fsGdds?si=4jGSaUM7E4Gydagb
- MBCook 3y ago
  I just watched that about 1/2 an hour ago. I had no idea that was what killed RCA. Seems like a classic sunk cost fallacy to me. They had a decent idea. But as it got harder and harder do they never pulled the plug. Adding bandwidth for color must have been a big issue. VHS had been out for 4 years in the US by the time CED came out. Betamax for 6. Time shifting was the original killer app until movies became affordable, and CED didn’t have it. Tapes were much hardier and held more video without interruption. Both tape formats already had an install base and were competing so adding a third option was never going to be easy. And yet they never pulled the plug.

ljf 3y ago

Back in about 2008 I found a huge load of UK CED discs for sale, plus about 10 different players. As someone who'd been fascinated by vcd, I was interested in this other appendix media - sadly I didn't buy it all, but for the best, looked like a massive lot!

ljf 3y ago
Actually man would have been 2004 - it was this site that I lost days to - https://www.cedmagic.com/selectavision.html https://www.cedmagic.com/selectavision.html

Tokkemon 3y ago

I love Alec's work on the CED. So good and really nicely narrative-driven, which is kinda rare in this "let's review old technology" genre.

krallja 3y ago

Half As Interesting just put out a video about CED today! https://youtu.be/TScO0fsGdds?si=4jGSaUM7E4Gydagb https://youtu.be/TScO0fsGdds?si=4jGSaUM7E4Gydagb

MBCook 3y ago
I just watched that about 1/2 an hour ago. I had no idea that was what killed RCA. Seems like a classic sunk cost fallacy to me. They had a decent idea. But as it got harder and harder do they never pulled the plug. Adding bandwidth for color must have been a big issue. VHS had been out for 4 years in the US by the time CED came out. Betamax for 6. Time shifting was the original killer app until movies became affordable, and CED didn’t have it. Tapes were much hardier and held more video without interruption. Both tape formats already had an install base and were competing so adding a third option was never going to be easy. And yet they never pulled the plug.