My dad worked for RCA and helped developed the video disc player in the early 80s, We had lots of video disc movies and a player i our house. It was kind of a big thing,
my grandparents had one in 83 and its now my cousin's. they had a huge pile of movies, and it was how i watched many of them in the 80s, growing up. Airplane, a bunch of James Bond, Grease, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown, Saturday Night Fever, all come to mind (my grandfather even had a Playboy CED hidden in his rec room where we'd usually watch them).
If it was really that BIG of a thing, it would have been successful. This basically put RCA out of business. They lost $650M, which in today's money is about $2B.
I think this particular sound of the music from rca intro is particularly memorable. It’s like it puts Tetris blocks into the right spot in your mind and makes a Tetris.
First heard this watching a movie with my parents when they bought an RCA videodisc player. Then years later heard it on the intro to Method Man's first album Tical. Classic!
I’ve never actually seen a CED or a CED player in person in my life. I was born in 1997. And yet something about this intro is so comfy, homey, and nostalgic. I love it.
for me it was Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown as well as Grease. My grandparents had a literal PILE of CEDs, i think it was a 'gift' from distributors to dump off old stock (my grandparents had my town's first video rental business in the very early 80s). The cover for Planet Of The Apes scared me lol
I have been looking for that classic jingle (and should have known I’d find it on CZcams)! When I was growing up, we had the RCA video disc player and a bunch of the movies.
Purchased a Toshiba VP100 CED Player for Christmas 1981. The whole thought of playing movies at home was beyond the scope of a 17 year old imagination. But the novelty soon wore off once you've watched the same movies over and over. And the realization that a VCR could record endless shows. Following are the movie I purchased for the CED player: - The Thing from Another World - History of the World Pt1 - Star Trek Motion Picture - Friday the 13 - Airplane - Richard Pryor: Live in Concert - Star Wars - The Muppet Movie - MASH - The Elephant Man - Rocky - Rocky II - Rocky III
I got my player at the same age in '83. I'll never forget walking into a store and seeing a wall of movies and just wanting to take them home and own them. And they eventually got really cheap about a year later
Had it released a few years sooner? I can easily see selectavision having a niche in the ecosystem. s is though? Too late to market to have a meaningful life. Damned nifty intro though.
OK, but I remember seeing this on an airing of the Ryan O'Neal movie Paper Moon as a kid in the 2000's. It might've been seen on some airings of popular movies by accident. @@theEpicjosh365
My dad worked for RCA and helped developed the video disc player in the early 80s, We had lots of video disc movies and a player i our house. It was kind of a big thing,
my grandparents had one in 83 and its now my cousin's. they had a huge pile of movies, and it was how i watched many of them in the 80s, growing up. Airplane, a bunch of James Bond, Grease, Race For Your Life Charlie Brown, Saturday Night Fever, all come to mind (my grandfather even had a Playboy CED hidden in his rec room where we'd usually watch them).
If it was really that BIG of a thing, it would have been successful. This basically put RCA out of business. They lost $650M, which in today's money is about $2B.
Ah, that beautiful Mussorgsky Promenade! SelectaVision's one greatest redeeming factor.
I think this particular sound of the music from rca intro is particularly memorable. It’s like it puts Tetris blocks into the right spot in your mind and makes a Tetris.
Modest Mussorgsky.
That Kimba And Early EDM Musician, I got it!
i know it is kinda off topic but does anybody know of a good place to stream new tv shows online?
Taking from Baby Van Gogh
First heard this watching a movie with my parents when they bought an RCA videodisc player. Then years later heard it on the intro to Method Man's first album Tical. Classic!
I’ve never actually seen a CED or a CED player in person in my life. I was born in 1997. And yet something about this intro is so comfy, homey, and nostalgic. I love it.
This is the Home Video equivalent of the PSone intro.
I remember this being on the CED of WHAT A NIGHTMARE, CHARLIE BROWN one of my friends had,, BEAUTIFUL..
for me it was Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown as well as Grease. My grandparents had a literal PILE of CEDs, i think it was a 'gift' from distributors to dump off old stock (my grandparents had my town's first video rental business in the very early 80s). The cover for Planet Of The Apes scared me lol
For me it was Friday the 13th
how i watched a lot of movies at my grandparents. i miss those days.
It’s amazing how this even worked. You need 250 times the bandwidth of a normal vinyl
So, like basically nothing in today's world?
"R C A, The Most Trusted Name In Television!" or, what used to be
I argue it still is good, but Samsung comes close
And Zentith The Quality Goes In Before The Name Goes On.
The intro that bankrupted a media empire.
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lol nice
I have been looking for that classic jingle (and should have known I’d find it on CZcams)! When I was growing up, we had the RCA video disc player and a bunch of the movies.
I've been looking for it, too.
The childhood memories of inserting the the discs and seeing/hearing this at the beginning....!
This gives nostalgia from an era i wasn't even alive
Ah, yes, I remember this well....
Better quality than VHS, not as good quality as LaserDisc.
What about betamax
In my experience it's noticeably worse than VHS.
Hey at least it worked out for PAL country's! I live in a PAL country!
VHS, Betamax, CED (A.K.A. "RCA SelectaVision VideoDisc"), Laserdisc, and others are all great formats
@@paramountwindowsdude02
I started collecting movie releases on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray Disc and Laserdisc
This is CCG88's intro when he did a remaster of his Britt Allcroft logo evolution!
0:01 to 0:08 sounds like the World Northal Corporation logo in the beginning with the vocals.
eu amo a rca
i relaxed in this giant pool of bestway relaxed with this music
Purchased a Toshiba VP100 CED Player for Christmas 1981.
The whole thought of playing movies at home was beyond the scope of a 17 year old imagination.
But the novelty soon wore off once you've watched the same movies over and over. And the realization that a VCR could record endless shows.
Following are the movie I purchased for the CED player:
- The Thing from Another World
- History of the World Pt1
- Star Trek Motion Picture
- Friday the 13
- Airplane
- Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
- Star Wars
- The Muppet Movie
- MASH
- The Elephant Man
- Rocky
- Rocky II
- Rocky III
I got my player at the same age in '83. I'll never forget walking into a store and seeing a wall of movies and just wanting to take them home and own them. And they eventually got really cheap about a year later
This music went on as a earworm when I was onmy cousin's YT account
this was used on a fanmade network called "BBN UK"
I heard that this jingle was actually classical music "Pictures at an Exposition".
The melody is, yes.
Reminds me of Argentina 7, and Random house home entertainments.
Sorry for late comment but where can I download the Promenade version just from the intro? It's absolutely amazing!
Promenade From Pictures At An Exhibition From Baby Van Gogh by Isao Tomita
What's the name of the song? It was also used in a wgi (winter percussion show)
this always scares me
Had it released a few years sooner? I can easily see selectavision having a niche in the ecosystem. s is though? Too late to market to have a meaningful life.
Damned nifty intro though.
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What Is The music?
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Promenade From Pictures At An Exhibition From Baby Van Gogh by Isao Tomita
The actual composition in it's entirety:
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Was this seen on some TV airings in the 1990s?
Nope.
It was only used as a reminder that you were watching something in the VideoDisc Format. And it was obviously only used in the VideoDiscs from RCA.
OK, but I remember seeing this on an airing of the Ryan O'Neal movie Paper Moon as a kid in the 2000's. It might've been seen on some airings of popular movies by accident. @@theEpicjosh365
Doubt it
Pat French
Maybe
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Mi tv
Ripped from the RCA SelectaVision Video Disc release of Mary Poppins (1964) which literally is a Disney movie
HP
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This is the logo I am referring too!