#SelectaVision

[gameraboy2]

RCA SelectaVision Video Monitor, 1983 ad

[adtothebone]

An incredibly random thrift store find that I just couldn’t leave behind. No, I don’t have a player.

[doppleganger-rental]

RCA’s Selectavision discs often had completely unique artwork for their covers which makes for some cool wall art. Here’s one for Rosemary’s Baby.

[obsidiansynth]

That sure is a find, wonder if they still work

[kply-industries]

[1spy]

1983 | Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean"

Y'all know that thing when you're a kid, and you notice there's this really cool, fashionable thing all the other kids are wearing at school, and you go home and ask your folks for the fashionable, exciting thing so you can be cool?

But then your folks buy you the thing that looks sorta like the fashionable, awesome thing, but is very obviously not that?

Let's just say the parachute pants I requested were not parachute pants.

Eh, I got over it.

Our nextdoor neighbors had "Making Michael Jackson's Thriller" on something called Selectavision. Us kids would go over there and watch it all the time. They also had Dark Night of the Scarecrow. I think they owned like five SelectaVision discs in total, so there was not a lot to choose from. But holy shit, I never got tired of watching John Landis and Michael Jackson collaborate on that video.

I was almost as curious about the SelectaVision.

They looked like giant flat 8-track cassettes to me, and I had no idea how they worked. These weren't laser discs. They were a competing format that had come out earlier. The SelectaVision discs were packaged inside a giant plastic case (like a big 3.5" floppy disk). These Capacitance Electronic Discs (CEDs) were developed by RCA as an updated analog format. They worked very similarly to vinyl records. From Wikipedia:

"First conceived in 1964, the CED system was widely seen as a technological success which was able to increase the density of a long-playing record by two orders of magnitude. Despite this achievement, the CED system fell victim to poor planning, various conflicts with RCA management, and several technical difficulties that slowed development and stalled production of the system for 17 years—until 1981, by which time it had already been made obsolete by laser videodisc (DiscoVision, later called LaserVision and LaserDisc) as well as Betamax and VHS video cassette formats."

Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, Billie Jean is one of the best songs of all time. Like maybe top five. Certainly top 10. His performance of the song on network TV was like a Gen X Beatles-on-Ed-Sullivan moment. And while we'd all learn more about Michael Jackson than we ever wanted to, all 1983 me knew about 1983 Michael Jackson was that he was the coolest human alive.

Of course, that was right before I learned about Prince.

[southernspiritnorthernheart]

[otakuanimesx2]

Noticias de Yu Yu Hakusho

La plataforma de streaming de Selecta Visión Animebox tiene el animé de Yu Yu Hakusho en su catálogo, de momento solo cuenta con los capítulos 1-25 de la serie.

Esta plataforma de streaming solo está disponible en el país de España de momento y se encuentra en los dispositivos de iOS y Android, y solo podrás acceder en televisores que cuenten con Android TV y Google Chrome.

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[chaptertwo-thepacnw]

[machetelanding]

[fruitcage]

[colortraks]

numitron is the cutest name for a thing ever. rca was so good at naming things

[kply-industries]

RCA selectavision, a very short-lived video format.

[mutsukiss]

DAMN I NEED TO WATCH JOJOS AGAIN

[gameraboy2]

RCA Convertible SelectaVision VCR VFP-170, 1982 ad

[girlballs]

Why is posting "cishets don't interact" not prejudicial discrimination?

The Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) is an analog video disc playback system developed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA), in which video and audio could be played back on a TV set using a special stylus and high-density groove system similar to phonograph records.

First conceived in 1964, the CED system was widely seen as a technological success which was able to increase the density of a long-playing record by two orders of magnitude.[2] Despite this achievement, the CED system fell victim to poor planning, various conflicts with RCA management, and several technical difficulties that slowed development and stalled production of the system for 17 years—until 1981, by which time it had already been made obsolete by laser videodisc (DiscoVision, later called LaserVision and LaserDisc) as well as Betamax and VHS video cassette formats. Sales for the system were nowhere near projected estimates. In the spring of 1984, RCA announced it was discontinuing player production, but continued the production of videodiscs until 1986, losing an estimated $650 million in the process. RCA had initially intended to release the SKT425 CED player with their high end Dimensia system in late 1984, but cancelled CED player production prior to the Dimensia system's release.[3]

The format was commonly known as "videodisc", leading to much confusion with the contemporaneous LaserDisc format. LaserDiscs are read optically with a laser beam, whereas CED discs are read physically with a stylus (similar to a conventional phonograph record). The two systems are mutually incompatible.

RCA used the brand name "SelectaVision" for the CED system, a name also used for some early RCA brand VCRs,[4] and other experimental projects at RCA.[5][6] The Video High Density system is similar to that of CED.