Recording video in the 1950s

[Richard_FM]

When discussing video recording, it is worth mentioning CED discs. RCA introduced this technology to the market /1981/ knowing that it was outdated compared to the competition /Betamax, VHS/. Apparently, from the point of view of the company's image, it was better to sell a poor-quality product to consumers than to admit defeat and end 17 years of research with nothing.

From what I've heard CED had a lot of quality issues.

At one time there was the thought that disc formats were be used for pre-recorded media & tape formats would be used just for recording, because the tapes were more expensive to duplicate at the time.

Probably because few people could afford to buy 1 device at the time, let alone 2, this didn't work out.