The CED: RCA's Very Late, Very Weird Video Gamble (Pt. 1)

Technology Connections explores the history and strange capacitance-based technology of RCA's ill-fated CED video disc system.

You can support this channel on Patreon! Link below Bring the magic home… with RCA! Please? We really want you to buy this. Please. Buy it now. Right now. It’ll be great. Hey! Part 2 is now up and running! Here's a link; youtu.be/mSFwyM2L5h4 If you’d like to learn more about the CED system, you should check out this link: cedmagic.com/home/ Tom Howe’s created a wonderful resource here. It’s a little old, but there are lots of goodies. How about some other, more different links? Technology Connections 2 (the channel where I sometimes talk about stuff and generally don’t prepare for anything): youtube.com/channel/UClRwC5Vc8HrB6vGx6Ti-lhA You can support this channel on Patreon! It has been amazing what Patreon has done for this channel, but also for me (your dorky host) personally. Through the support of people just like you, Technology Connections has become my job and I am so excited and thankful for it! If you’d like to join the fine folks in a pledge to help the channel stay as weird as it is (and maybe, just maybe, get even weirder!), please check out my Patreon page. Thank you for your consideration! patreon.com/technologyconnections And of course, thank you to the following patrons! Yaniv, Francis Fisher, The War Academy, Conor Killeen, Jason R Scheuren, Dave Anderson, Noah McCann, Eric Hansen, Dane Peterson, Steven First, Audin Malmin, Adam D. Ruppe, Rafał Wiosna, Matthew Giraitis, Kevin Landrigan, Harald E. Westlie, Carl Yazbek, Logan Kriete, Hunter Schwisow, Matt Falcon, Kieran Cox, Eric Wood, Paul Williams, Brent LaRowe, Lurker239, Felix Freiberger, James Ryan, Lukas Komischke, h.drew foy, Jason Nevins, Jeffrey, BlancoGrande, Stephen Pick, Technicalleigh, John McLusky, Adam Coddington, Lolucoca, Steven Metcalf, Justin Talbot, Christopher Jett, SovietBear, Mike Mason, Techmoan, Kotanu, Christopher Luna, Paul Mills, Colton Aubrey Hooke, Brian G. Shacklett, Eduardo Kaftanski, Chris Hartl, Andre N, Tony, Matthew Baron, Mark Critchley, Andres Plaza, Charlie Hankin, Craig Leverenz, Casey Kikendall, Sebi Jecklin, Warmo, The8TrackKid, Drew McClain, Michael Snowden, Ed Hall, Julian Rapoport, Christopher Bassett, Ryan Cozzubbo, Marcus Schwartz, Johan Schoeman, Matt Taylor, Patrick Musson, Lars JJ, Richard Lindsey, Kollin O'Dannel, Peek, blouerat, Robert Toth, Joseph Hill, Marc Ethier, Giacomo Scaparrotti, Thijs Dortmann, Brady Brown, Stein Strindhaug, foophoof, Ernie Smith, Christopher Dickey, Denver Alexander, Jan Stavel, Mitchel J. Mullin II, Matthew Razza, Trix Farrar, Marco Anastasi, Pavlo Pravdiukov, Raymond LaRose, Howard Kraut, Mike Bailey, Michael Bernstein, Kevin Strehl, Yona, neko, Grayson Lang, Thomas Beaver, Jeffery Grajkowski, Eric Merrill, Stefan Berndtsson, Michael Sims, Clint Eisinger, Christopher Leidich, Mike Friedman, André Waage Sørensen, Sam Redfern, Tully, fussel, Corey A Hudson, EpicLPer, Luc Ritchie, Eric Romero, Ryan Hardy, Taylor Martin, thefanification, Ewen McNeill, Al