This is gorgeous.

It only takes about 5 minutes of watching a CED on the SelectaVision before my “friends” start begging me to switch to something more modern. “Please,” they say, “can we watch a LaserDisc instead?” Weak.

My dad was way into home A/V, so naturally I was too. I grew up renting Beta Hi-Fi from The Wherehouse. We had Laserdisc. I can tell you Clear and Present Danger was the first AC-3 release for home audio. WHAT IS THIS FORMAT?! I’m vexed.

Oh man, memories. My dad thought this was the future and got CED instead of videocassette (or laserdisc, which was around). I loved that solid ka-chunk of sliding in the cartridge. No other format ever gave me that tactile delight.

I *just* saw a clip with a guy saying, anyone born after about 2000 is not going to have the experience and memory of wiping an old TV and feeling the electric static on the front of the screen.

I had a visceral reaction to the nostalgia. That video disk player … oh, man

I had this disc player growing up in the early 80s. Only pain in the ass was you had to flip the disc halfway through the movie...just like spinning vinyl.

My parents still have a working one with about 100 movies, including the theatrical releases of the Star Wars trilogy. So much fun to use

Accurate all the way down to the fake wood paneling and the burnt orange shag carpet. I'm so glad I survived that bygone era. Despite growing up with CRTs, I don't miss them. As far as I recall, almost no one really had CED videodiscs. I went from VHS, laserdiscs, DVDs, to BDs.

Witchcraft.

Can’t believe this isn’t @TheEricGoldman or @DinosaurDracula

everyone needs a 1982 basement.

Trying to get my head around how CED works. Amazing

That's what it means to live alone and never worry about if the wife wants to watch what you want to watch

@ReelFeelsPod Movie night when?

Masks not included? 🎃

Where the hell is @Foone when you really, really want her to see something?

😍😍

Oh god I’m gonna go down this rabbit hole now thanks

Tell me you have this set-up @tonyingesson

@pokerface692

ah oui @vhsandpizza je connais

Wait. Video on vinyl? I don’t think that even made it here to Australia!

@jmr___18

@paolo6784

SO. RAD.

Mmmmm... CED's

My father use to rent these from the local library and we would spend all night copying them to VHS tapes. We were hardcore pirates back then. I had my first introduction to Duran Duran with the uncensored music video of Girls on Film rented from the library. The glorious 80's!

Only just heard of this, born in 1980

@UltraHDBluray Why were US colour TV so low to the ground? Who wants to look down at a TV?

What model of TV is that? I've never seen one with a face plate like that before.

Movies on floppy disk?

I want to see these at @bekindvideo next time I’m in.

We were so awful to wood paneling and shag carpet, just absolutely exterminated them from modern design, and my childhood misses them so much

Ha! Been discussing this with friends for the last few days!!