Posted by JoeBloe on 01/05/07 01:36

On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:05:13 -0600, chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid>
Gave us:

>JoeBloe wrote:
>
>>LD is too huge, too bulky, and it presents the hardware designers
>>with too many technical hurdles to make good gear for it. The wobble
>>at the edge of a twelve inch platter can be huge.
>
>Too bad that the market didn't go for the "needle and groove" video
>disk that RCA tried to make work, eh?
>

That's not what it was.

It was a capacitive pick up stylus. No needle at all. No groove.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SelectaVision

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