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CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 33 • 8/16/1997 |
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 15:06:56 -0400 From: donald baraf Subject: To: ceds@teleport.com I have 5 RCA VideoDisc players. I also have 400 discs. None of the players work. The discs are OK and have the usual glitches. My wife says that the discs are the best collection of movies that I have. So I really need to get at least one of the "400" model machines operational. I also have a new "400" needle that I bought in the waning days of CED. The main problems are (i)the machine will not "bight" the disc and engage and (ii)the transport will not take the disc in. Is there someone in the NY area who still know how to feed and care for these cute dinosaurs? Early adopters unite. You have nothing to lose but your money! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: RJGRAHAM Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 16:43:31 -0500 To: ceds@teleport.com Subject: RE:CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 32 Since things seem kind of slow I'd like to open a topic for reader's discussion. Which films do you think look better in CED than any other format? Two that I would like to nominate are: "The Quiet Man" (Republic's "digital" [expensive] anniversary edition on laser looks dreadful. The colors are oversaturated and run together, while the CED looks very nice. "To Be or Not To Be" (The Benny/Lombard/Lubitsch version). VHS copies seem to have been mastered from 16mm prints while the CED is sharp and clear. Other films that looked terrible on laser originally (until they were replaced with better transfers) include: "The Thing" (1951) and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" (Pioneer definitely reproduced them from scratchy, incomplete 16mm prints); "The Searchers" and "The Wild Bunch" (current letterboxed laser editions are fantastic, but the pan & scans that were available for years did not do their sources justice--and don't forget, it was RCA & CED that originally restored "The Wild Bunch" to its director's cut). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: SCULPTORD5 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:12:11 -0400 (EDT) To: ceds@teleport.com Subject: subscribe hi,, i'd like to subcribe to your video disk thing,,,,i went to the thrift store to buy a cool VideoDisk that i had seen there on friday,,,,, when i got there,,they were gone! someone had bought them all.. hell! i have bad luck I want to cry now,,, Dan Sculptord5@aol.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:32:18 -0700 From: Neil Wagner To: CED Digest <ceds@teleport.com> Subject: Re: Frozen Image in Tron WAY BACK ON Thu, 05 Dec 1996, Tom Howe wrote: >I noticed on side 2 of the movie Tron there is a mastering error where >the same image remains on screen for over a second, when it should >exhibit rapid motion. This occurs at 25 min. 26 sec. into side 2 just >as Tron kneels down to assist Flynn. I'm wondering if this occurs on >all Tron CED's, or if RCA remastered the disc to correct the error. I can now confirm that the same 'stutter' exists on my copy of the movie. Pretty goofy. Don't have the movie on any other format, so I don't know if it's unique to the CED. >While you're looking for this, check out a couple of interesting Easter >Eggs the Disney film makers snuck into this movie. On side 2 from 21:45 >to 21:48 a likeness of Mickey Mouse can be seen on the terrain below >the Solar Sailer, and on side 1 from 45:58 to 46:05 the music from the >arcade game Pac-Man can be heard as Sark is shouting "Get Them!. On >the letterboxed LaserDisc a small Pac-Man can also be seen on Sark's >display terminal, but this is cut off on the Pan-and-Scan CED. Man, I hate pan & scan. Both easter eggs are ones you really gotta be intent on finding. I still don't hear the Pac-Man sounds. :) Neil - nw@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 20:36:42 -0700 From: Neil Wagner To: CED Digest <ceds@teleport.com> Subject: Letterboxed CED's Just wondering which CEDs were released in the letterbox format besides the few that are mentioned in the CED FAQ. Anyone? (See my previous message for my opinion of pan & scan.) Neil - nw@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 15:42:30 -0700 From: (Edward Sandquist) To: ceds@teleport.com Subject: Ed Sandquist C.E.D. SALE 3 Single C.E.D. discs are on sale for $10 plus $2 postage for each disc ordered. Double discs are on sale for $5 each plus $2 for shipping for each disc ordered. The titles are as follows: The Jazz Singer For a Few Dollars More (Double Disc Set) Never Give a Sucker an Even Break Marty Dirty Harry Dressed to Kill One to One Jaws II Paths of Glory Charge of the Light Brigade Charly Suddenly Last Summer My Favorite Year Jezebel Vice Squad Dark Victory Hombre An American Werewolf in London Halloween II Adventures of Robin Hood Psycho 12 Angry Men Petrified Forest Avalanche Psycho II Night Porter Autobiography of Jane Pittman Graduation Day Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean Verdict (Double Disc Set) Coma Airport (Double Disc Set) Dracula Godfather Part II, (Double Disc Set) Friday the 13th, Final Chapter Goldiggers of 1933 Silent Rage Hud Jaws 3 Viva Las Vegas Towering Inferno (Double Disc Set) Duck Soup That's Entertainment Prince and the Pauper Olivia Air Force White Heat Mirror Crack'd Hang'em High Pride and the Passion (Double Disc Set) To Sir with Love Footlight Parade Robin and Marion National Lampoon's European Vacation Send your orders to: ED SANDQUIST 713 Morondo Ave Ajo, Arizona 85321 Phone 520 387-4204 Please note my new E-mail address.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 20:58:40 -0700 From: Neil Wagner To: CED Digest <ceds@teleport.com> Subject: WANTED: "The Kids Are Alright" Subject line says it all. I want to buy the CED of "The Kids Are Alright." Anyone selling? Neil - nw@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: TerryTC1 Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 17:17:40 -0400 (EDT) To: ceds@teleport.com Subject: Worst side break A discussion previously about poor side breaks leads me to a movie I recently watched 2001 A Space Odyssey. The side break between one and two occurs in the middle of the ship landing on the moon in the middle of the "Blue Danube" when the next scene is in the meeting room and would have been the perfect place for a side break. In addition the side is only 36 minutes long and the laser disc of the same vintage has the break as they are flying to the monolith 12 min later and is also a good place for a break. Even more unusual. The ending crescendo of the "Blue Danube" ends before the meeting scene in the original laserdisc version, the Criterion version, the letterboxed version, and the anniversary CAV version. In the CED version (mono) the music is still ending as the photographer takes pictures. Speaking of sound abnormalities. In "The Seven Year Itch" the syncing of the voices to the characters speaking is all messed up especially in the opening scene in the train station Just some musings.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Zach D." To: Tom Howe <ceds@teleport.com> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 17:13:24 -0500 Subject: Re: CED Digest Vol. 2 No. 32 ---- CED Digest Entry ---- Let's make a deal people! I need to sell some of these, if you want to take more than a few I'll cut a better deal - I've already dropped prices some. Also, check my want list and we can trade as well.. Thanks for looking... Zach D. 2001: A Space Odyssey Disk 2 Only $ 2.00 Adam and the Ants. Stereo, Great Shape $ 6.00 And God Created Woman Brigitte Bardot $ 4.00 Airplane! The Movie $ 4.00 Baffled Starring Leonard Nimoy! $ 4.00 Barbarella Jane Fonda $ 5.00 Black Stallion, The $ 3.00 Blues Brothers Disk 2 Only $ 2.00 Body Double Stereo, By Brian DePalma $ 5.00 Bullitt McQueen, THE Car Chase $ 3.00 Catch 22 A Mike Nichols Film $ 4.00 Coming Home Jane Fonda/Peter Voight 2 $ 3.00 Commando Schwarezeneger, Stereo $ 5.00 Creepshow The Movie $ 4.00 Disney LGE Silly Symphonies Limited Gold Edition $ 5.00 Disney Cartoon Parade Vol 2 $ 5.00 Disney Cartoon Parade Vol 4 $ 5.00 Disney Cartoon Parade Vol 5 $ 5.00 Dr. Zhivago 2 $ 4.00 Dracula Original Version $ 3.00 Emmanuelle Soft Core Classic $ 4.00 Empire Strikes Back, The $ 5.00 Fistful of Dollars, A Eastwood $ 4.00 Ghost Busters Stereo, Who You Gonna Call? $ 5.00 Gotcha That Guy From ER $ 3.00 Graduate, The Mike Nichols Film/Dustin Hoffman$ 4.00 Gremlins Stereo $ 5.00 Heaven Can Wait Warren Beatty $ 3.00 Jesus of the Nazareth 4 Disk Set! Ziffereli Classic 4 $10.00 Klute Jane Fonda Oscar Performance $ 4.00 Loving Couples Susan Sarandon $ 3.00 Magnificent Seven, The Disk 1 Only $ 2.00 Megaforce Cheesey Tour De Force $ 3.50 Monty Python & the Holy Grail Bring Out Your Dead! $ 5.00 Odd Couple, The O.G. - Original Grumpies $ 4.00 Oh, God! George Burns $ 3.00 Owl and the Pussycat Streisand/George Segal $ 3.00 Patton George C. Scott is... 2 $ 4.00 Planet of the Apes Damn, Dirty Apes! $ 5.00 Psycho Hitch $ 4.00 Purple Rain Warner Stereo Disk $ 5.00 Raging Bull DeNiro is... 2 $ 8.00 Reds Warren Beatty 2 $ 3.00 Seven Year Itch, The Marylin, Classic Pose on Case! $ 6.00 Splash Stereo/Hanks and Hannah $ 5.00 Star is Born, A Streisand/Kristoferson $ 3.00 Star Wars $ 5.00 Super Box XIV Steelers VS. Rams $ 4.00 ++++Teddy Pendergrass in London $ 4.00 They Call Me Mr. Tibbs! Sydeny Portier $ 4.00 Time Machine, The $ 4.00 Treasure Island $ 3.00 Wild Bunch, The Peckinpaw Classic 2 $ 5.00 This batch is in great condition: Casablanca $ 5.00 Clarence Darrow - Henry Fonda $ 5.00 Cousin Cousine $ 4.00 Henry V - Larence Olivier $ 5.00 Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley $10.00 Reefer Madness - Cult Classic $ 6.00 Rocky III, Mr. T! $ 4.00 Simon and Garfunkle - Conert in the Park $ 7.00 Trading Places - Eddie Murphy, Dan Akroyd $ 4.00 Who's Afraid of Opera - Shrinkwrapped $ 5.00 These discs were renters. Many are cosmetically a bit wrinkley, mainly on the small end label. Atlantic City $3.00 Atlantic City $3.00 Benji $3.00 Black Stallion,The $3.00 Catch 22 $3.00 Chariot's of Fire $3.00 Fast Times at Ridgemont High $3.00 Flashdance $3.00 High Road to China $3.00 Jane Fonda Workout $3.50 Lawrence of Arabia $4.00 Logan's Run $5.00 Mr. Mom $3.00 Officer and a Gentleman $3.00 Raiders of the Lost Arc $3.00 Silkwood $3.00 War Games $3.00 Watership Down $4.00 Young Frankenstein $3.00 These I can get: $4-$5 - depending on how many you want! "10" 12 O'clock High 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea 3 Days Of The Condor 3 Stooges Vol I 48 Hours 48 Hours 9 To 5 9 To 5 Abscence Of Malice Abscense Of Malice Adventures Of Robin Hood, The Against All Odds Airplane Airplane II Airplane II Airport Alamo, The Alamo, The American Gigolo American Warewolf In London Amityville Horror, The Amityville II And Justic For All And Justic For All Anderson Tapes, The Angel Of H.E.A.T. Annie Annie (?) 2 Any Which Way You Can Apple Dumpling Gang, The Apple Dumpling Gang, The Arsenic And Old Lace Arthur Avalanche Back Roads Bad News Bears Bad News Bears Barbarosa ? Barefoot Contessa 2 Barry Manillow Beach Girls Bears And I Beast Within, The Beauty And The Beast Benji Best Friends Best Little Whore House In Texas Betsy Big Bad Mamma Big Chill Blame It On Rio Blazing Saddles Blowout Blue Lagoon Blue Lagoon, The Blue Thunder Blue Thunder Bob, Carol, Ted And Alice Body Double Born Free Bounty Bounty, The 2? Boys From Brazil, The Braindstorm Breaking Away Breakout Breathless Bronco Billy Buddy Buddy Buddy Buddy Bugs Bunny/road Runner Movie, The Bullit Bullit Bullwinkle & Rocky & Friends, Vol. 2 (?) Bullwinkle And Rocky Vol II Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid Cabaret Caddy Shack Candleshoe Candleshoe Cannery Row Carrier Cat Ballou Cat People Catch 22 Change Of Season Changeling Changeling, The Charlie Brown Festival, A Charlie Brown Festival, Vol. 3 Charlotte's Web Charlotte's Web Cheech And Chong Nice Dreams Cheech And Chong Nice Dreams China Town Chinatown Clash Of The Titans Cloak And Dagger Cold River Come A Horseman Coming Home Coming Home Coming Home 2 Connonball Run, The Crackers Crimes Of Passion Cross Creek Cujo D.c. Cab Dark Crystal, The Dark Victory Dead Zone, The Death Hunt Death Wish ? Deathwish Deep, The Defiant Ones, The Deliverance Devil And Daniel Mouse, The Dial M For Murder Diamonds Are Forever Diner Dirty Dozen Dirty Dozen, The Dirty Harry Diva Doctor Detroit Doctor Doolittle Doctor Doolittle 2 Doctor No Doctor Zhivago 2 Domino Principle, The Don't Look Now Dot And The Bunny Dracula Dracula Dragon Slayer Dragonslayer Dressed To Kill Dressed To Kill Duchess And The Dirkwater Fox, The Dumbo Easy Money Educating Rita Educating Rita Electric Horseman, The Escape To Witch Mountain Exposed Eye Witness Eyes Of Laura Marrs Final Conflict, The First Blood Fistfull Of Dollars Fog, The Footloose (Close Captioned) For Your Eyes Only For Your Eyes Only Fort Apache, The Bronx Four Musketeers, The Four Seasons, The Frances French Lieutenant's Woman, The >From Russia With Love Gandhi 2 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Going Berserk Going Berserk Golden Bug, The (Not Full Title) Golden Pond Goldfinger Goldilocks And The Three Bears (Ftt) Goodbye Girl, The Gorky Park Gorky Park Graduate, The Graduation Day Great Escape 2 Great Escape, The 2 Great Locomotive Chase, The (?) Great Show On Earth, The Great Space Coaster, The Greatest Show On Earth, The 2 Greatest Show On Earth, The 2 Green Berets, The Green Berets, The Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan 2 Gulliver's Travels Guns Of The Navarone 2 Guns Of The Navarone 2 Haloween Iii Hansel And Gretel He Knows You're Alone He Knows Your Alone Heaven Can Wait Heidi Herbie Rides Again Herbie Rides Again History Of The World, Part 1 Hobbit, The Hombre Hopscotch Hospital Massacre Hotel New Hampshire How To Beat The High Cost Of Living Howling Huckleberry Finn (Adventures Of?) Hug In Praise Of Older Women In-laws, The Incubus, The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers [1956] Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers (Newer Version) Invitation To A Gunfighter It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 2 Jack And The Beanstalk (Ftt) Jagged Edge Jane Fonda Workout Jason And The Argonauts Jaws Jaws 3-D Jaws II Jezebel Journey To The Center Of The Earth Kelly's Heroes Kelly's Heroes Kelly's Heroes Kelly's Heroes Kidnapped King Creole (Elvis) King Kong 2 Kiss Me Goodbye Kiss Me Goodbye Kramer Vs. Kramer Lady Chatterly's Lover Lassie Rescue Rangers Laura Lenny Liar's Moon Lion, Witch, And The Wardrobe, The Little Red Riding Hood (Ftt) Live And Let Die Lonely Guy Long Goodbye Longest Yard, The Longest Yard, The Love At The Greek Love Bug M*a*s*h Magic Magic Pony, The Magnum Force Making Michael Jackson's Thriller Man Who (Loved Women, Would Be King, Came To Diner!)? Man With The Golden Arm Man With Two Brains Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh, The Mash Matilda Max Dugan Returns Max Dugan Returns Mechanic, The Meet Me In Saint Louis Midnight Cowboy Mildred Missing Moby Dick Modern Problems Modern Problems Modern Problems Monsignor Moon Is Blue, The Moon Raker 2 Moonraker Moses 2 Mr. Mom Muppet Movie, The Murder By Death My Tutor My Tutor (?) Mysterious Island, The National Lampoon's Vacation Never Cry Wolf Never Say Never Again Never Say Never Again 2 Night Games Night Shift Night Shift, The Nightingale (Ftt) Norma Rae Notorious Octopussy Octopussy Odd Couple Odd Couple, The Old Yeller Old Yeller Omen, The On Her Majesty's Secret Service 2 One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest 2 Pappilon Pappilon (?) Paradise Pennies From Heaven Pink Panther Strikes Pink Panther, The Pinochio Places In The Heart Police Academy Pollyanna 2 Poltergeist Poltergeist Popeye Cartoons: Vol I Porky's Porky's Porky's Ii: The Next Day Princess And The Pea (Ftt) Psycho II Pyscho Pyscho II Raiders Of The Lost Ark Rainbow Brite And The (??) Rapunzel Rear Window Reds 2 Return Of The King Return Of The Pink Panther Revenge Of The Pink Panther Rich And Famous Rich And Famous Richard Pryor Live Rio Bravo Rio Bravo Risky Business Risky Business Road Games Robin Hood Rocky Rocky II Rocky Iii Romancing The Stone S.o.b. Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, The Sands Of Iwo Jima Savanah Smiles Savanah Smiles Scarface 2 Sea Wolves Secret Of Nimh Seduction, The Seems Like Old Times Seven Brides For Seven Brothers Shaggy Dog Shamus Shane 2 Sharky's Machine Shining, The Shoot The Moon Shootist, The Silent Partner, The Silkwood Silkwood Silkwood Silver Streak Sinbad And The Eye Of The Tiger Slave Of The Cannibal God Sleeping Beauty Slumber Party '57 Smokey And The Bandit Smokey And The Bandit Smurf's Magic Flute Snowy River Soldier's Story, A Some Like It Hot Songs Of Katy Elder Sons Of Katy Elder Sophie's Choice Sophie's Choice Sororiety Row Sound Of Music 2 South Pacific Spiral Staircae, The Spy Who Loved Me, The Squirm Star Chamber, The Starman Sting, The 2 Stir Crazy Stir Crazy Strange Behavior Stranger Is Watching, A Stroker Ace Sudden Impact Sunshine Boys, The Supergirl Superman II 2 Superman Iii 2 Superman The Movie 2 Superman The Movie 2 Swamp Thing Swing Shift Sybil Sybil 2 Table For 5 Tales From Muppetland (Emmet Otter's Jug Band X-mas) Ten Commandments, The Tender Mercies Terms Of Endearment 2 Tess That Championship Season The Shoot Horses Don't They? They All Laughed They Call Me Mr. Tibbs Thing, The Things Are Tough All Over Things Are Tough All Over Three Stooges Videodisc, Vol. 2, The Thumbelina (Ftt) Thunderball 2 To Be Or Not To Be Tommy Tootsie Towering Inferno Toy, The Toy, Thew Trading Places Trading Places Trapeze True Grit True Grit Twelve O'clock High 2 Twilight Zone The Movie Unfaithfully Yours Urban Cowboy 2 Verdict, The Verdict, The 2 Vertigo 2 Victor Victoria Victor/victoria View To A Kill View To A Kill Wargames Watership Down Westworld White Nights 2 Wild Bunch Should Be 2 Disks Wild Bunch, The Winnie The Pooh And Friends ? Without A Trace Without A Trace Witness To The Prosecution World Of Henry Orient, The World's Greatest Lover, The Yellowbeard You Only Live Twice Young Doctors In Love Z Zapped Most wanted list: 1 Pee-wee's Big Adventure 2 Lolita (2) 3 Rosemary's Baby (2) 4 Warriors, The 5 Dog Day Afternoon, 6 Rolling Thunder, 7 Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn 8 Yor, the Hunter from the Future 9 Shaft 10 King of Comedy, The 11 Hard Day's Night, 12 I Spit On Your Grave 13 Breakin' 14 Beat Street 15 Exorcist, The 16 Weird Science TTYL, ZD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Net's Best Virtual Flea Market: Vinyl-8 Tracks-Computers-Board Games-CEDs-Video Games-Books - Collectibles http://users.hub.ofthe.net/~zachd/
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