Comments on: Friday the 13th On a Different Home Video Format…. CED?

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:03:10 +0000

I’ve never heard of CED. I like part 2’s cover, they should’ve used it for the original VHS and the future DVD releases… jasonsfury, thanks for the info.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:23:55 +0000

I have all five movies for the CED. I used to watch them all the time. The machine sucked and the needle broke easily. My parents used to buy them alot. I think we had like over a 100 movies.

By: voorhees213

voorhees213 — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:45:34 +0000

My friends all know me as “the friday the 13th guy”, so my buddy saw a Part 1 CED at a garage sale and picked it up for me for about 25 cents. I had no idea what this thing actually was! Thank you!

By: SkaryMoviez

SkaryMoviez — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:32:55 +0000

jasonsfury: Yeah, I noticed that about the ebay description. I figured for 2.99 it wasn’t a big loss. Besides, I can be crafty and print off my own cover

By: T

Tue, 12 May 2009 22:49:28 +0000

yea the cover 4 part 2 is pretty cool

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:46:32 +0000

Let me tell you…a friend and I watched Grease (oddly Paramount) on one of these things. And just like a record, they do that skipping/ looping thing and its the most hilarious thing you’ll ever see.

By: Bobby Russell

Bobby Russell — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:09:01 +0000

I have seen these type of discs. My father was trying to sell ceramics in this little hole in the wall flea market, and I had to go with him sometimes. I remember there being a copy of a James Bond movie (nothing to do with Friday the 13th) but I thought it was interesting. Be worth seeing how it works, though.

By: The real T

The real T — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:28:41 +0000

I just hope that they don’t make the same mistake with Jason as they did with Batman, like with nipples on the batsuit and everything.

By: Jason M

Jason M — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:34:05 +0000

I actually have a CED player and all 5 of the f13 discs plus a shitload of other horror titles. Amityville, TCM, Squirm. You guys shoulda hurried up and been born in the 80’s. The discs have grooves and are read with a really small needle like having a video on a record. Halfway through the movies you hafta put the shell in to flip the disc over by hand. It’s nostalgically awesome now, but back then it was a bitch. You’d be staring at the TV thinking “OH shit, don’t make me flip this over now, there’s some guy with a fuckin chainsaw under the couch or behind the TV.” Each disc weighs more than a loaf of bread, and the player it’s self, a cinder block.

By: Mr Moe

Mr Moe — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:54:59 +0000

For more information :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitance_Electronic_Disc

By: MrMike

MrMike — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:47:46 +0000

Ahh how far we have come since the dawn of home entertainment. And to think the CED format was the shit back then. My father-in-law bought a CED player at a garage sale a few years back. He thought it was a lsserdisc player. It came with six movies and I know two of them where Raiders of the Lost Ark and Jaws.

By: jasonsfury

jasonsfury — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:06:10 +0000

SkaryMoviez,
You do realize, according to the description on eBay, that the disc is encased in a cover that does not have the Final Chapter on it, right? The guy says that he just threw it into whatever caddie they had available at the time. Just don’t want you disappointed when it arrives.

By: MadWorldDesigns

MadWorldDesigns — Mon, 11 May 2009 05:19:07 +0000

Yeah I LOVED Video Disc growing up! Almost all the earlier 80’s horror I watched as a kid was on this format. Yeah the negative was they are a record basically so anytime someone would walk across the room it could skip half way through the movie and considering rentals were hot at the time, these things got MESSED up passing through so many hands and could be unwatchable at times.

Pro’s were they laid the platform for “chapters/skipping” combining digital with analog, features the VHS never had and they were cheap compared to a brand new $1000 VCR.

But I first saw Friday the 13th Part IV on CED and then Part 1 and so on. Plus the covers were always cooler on those bigger cases (like the big laser disc ones) Plus my dad bought me a brand new sealed part V that I got to tear open.

Oh the memories.

By: theguyontheleft

theguyontheleft — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:06:18 +0000

I remember my mom had parts 1 and 4 on CED when I was a kid. I remember the cover to part 4 scaring the shit out of me as a kid so my sister used it to fuck with me.

I’d like to get a hold of these, being the video nerd that I am.

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 11 May 2009 01:44:23 +0000

I Have not heard of the CED for a long time. We use to have one and , it was not bad for its time.
All video formats have came along way, it would be nice to have that player again, along with some movies, just to go down memory lane.
Friday the 13th the final chaper was the first movie I watched on the CED, it would skip now and then though.

By: Rog

Rog — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:42:27 +0000

These were absolute crap. I remember that they would jump and skip while watching them. Not much better than VHS in terms of video quality either. Kind of annoying having to flip the disc over half way through to finish watching a movie too.

By: brett

brett — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:21:57 +0000

Scab is lieing!

By: jasonsfury

jasonsfury — Mon, 11 May 2009 00:07:30 +0000

We’ll try to catch up to you one of these days scab

By: SkaryMoviez

SkaryMoviez — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:36:11 +0000

http://cgi.ebay.com/Friday-the-13th-The-Final-Chapter-CED-Video-Disc-RARE_W0QQitemZ110382513022QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Movies_Other_Formats?hash=item19b34f7b7e

By: SkaryMoviez

SkaryMoviez — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:35:13 +0000

I JUST got part 4 on ebay for only 2.99 as a “buy it now” today! Sorry, folks, it was the only one I could find. I’ll post some pics of it when I get it!!!