Remembering Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED)

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The TMC channel is showing "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" which brings back the memory of RCAs Capacitance Electronic Disc. Anyone remember these?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/ed/Ced_cart2.jpg/670px-Ced_cart2.jpg

The first "video disk" I ever purchased/watched was:

$%28KGrHqF,!hcE1iIvgPizBNho2!Jp8g~~_3.JPG
 
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No, here in Singapore we kind of "jumped" over CEDs to LaserDiscs immediately.

Cool piece of nostalgia though.

After LDs, we went to Video CDs (whose quality was marginally worse than LD) which lasted for a while, then Super Video CDs enjoyed a very brief stint in the limelight before being crushed by the DVD Video specification. Of course, it's all Blu Ray now.