Posted by Bill Vermillion on 09/05/05 04:35

In article <1125063830.252138.246920@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, <> wrote:
>Ironically, Steve, CED, which I do agree with you was "bad" in that it
>skipped, had poor resolution, etc, actually is probably the most
>durable home video format we've ever had.

I took back the first player I got - a model 100. But later on I
tried a 400 SJ ? - and with the servo mechanisms and two to three
years of field use on previous models, this was a good machine.

If these had been released when the CED first came out it might
have lasted a bit longer - but it was too late to overcome all the
crappy machines that came before.

>Magnetic tape gets stretched and is prone to drop-outs, laserdisc
>"rotted" due to the manufacturing conditions and the glue, and DVDs are
>very fragile and occassioanlly develop problems during the layer
>change, and some old titles won't play at all (like some copies of the
>original release of BOOGIE NIGHTS).

I've not had any tape strectch - except one - caused by a poor
brake that let the tape spin off the hub a bit during fast forward,
and I've really had few dropouts. But then again most of mine
were Beta machines with Faroudja circuitry, and then when I moved
to VHS it was S-VHS.

I've had a few LD's rot - but not too many.

I've had one DVD that just slowly stoppped working. Das Boot -
first getting blocky, then only playing credits, and finally
nothing at all. The B side - it was a flipper - was OK.

Maybe I'm lucky - or I treat my disks quite well. I just
transfered some LPs that are 40+ years old and they look new and
sound new. As Herman Horne* - hi-fi lecturer - was fond of saying
"Cleanliness is nest to High Fidelityness".

* Herman Horne - a fictional character on the old Stan Freberg
radio show.

>CED was a vinyl disc like an LP record, and they still hold up today.
>But, damn, are they heavy!!!

Groovy .

Bill


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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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