The Capacitance Electronic Disc, or CED, was a media storage method RCA had been working on since the 60’s. The company poured millions of dollars into the project betting that it would be the ...

According to Tom Howe, CED expert and collector, the idea to put moving pictures on a vinyl disc was actually first floated in the 1950s, although work on the unusual system didn’t begin until 1964.

Unlike the more well-known Laserdisk format, the [Capacitive Electronic disk], or [CED] used an actual stylus to read the disks. Because of this, the [Wikipedia] article astutely points out that ...

RCA announces CED disc - Tons of major studios supporting it. Several manufacturers as well. Pioneer buys the license to Phillips Laserdisc with One major studio support (MCA/Universal - Odd note ...

Because of all these weaknesses, RCA opted for a disc as the carrier medium. In October 1964, exactly 60 years ago, RCA announced its plan and rolled up its sleeves.

The problem wasn’t that RCA created the video disc too late, ... I had both an RCA CED and a LaserDisc player – the “problem” was the cost of movies. Most were $60.

The technical approach of VHD was similar to RCA’s competing CED system in that the information is stored in a pattern of capacitance on the surface of the disc. The resulting appearance is somewhere ...