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The Doomed Effort to Make Videos Go Vinyl

by Hjugo on 10/10/15, 7:20 AM with 11 comments

• by kisstheblade on 10/10/15, 10:14 AM

  Didn't even know these things existed, even though our family had the first vhs and cd players in our neighborhood. Amazing that they actually got this to somewhat work, persistent fellows :)

• by joblessjunkie on 10/10/15, 2:36 PM

  We used to rent these discs when I was a teenager. They were terribly unreliable. Skipping, stopping, starting over, my god it was a miracle to reach the end.

  And that's just side one; halfway through you gotta get up off the couch and flip it over and do the whole gauntlet again.

• by Gracana on 10/10/15, 3:04 PM

  One of my favorite youtubers has a big collection of CEDs, and he made a video about them and their issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7UH9QfcIi0

• by tiredwired on 10/11/15, 12:19 AM

  Video on audio tapes was a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL-2000

• by Somasis on 10/10/15, 8:26 PM

  I always thought CEDs looked so cool. What I really want to see is how they're created though, and what they'd sound like on a turntable...