{"product_id":"rca-selectavision-sft100w-ced-player-1981-1985","title":"RCA SelectaVision SFT-100W CED Player \u0026 \"Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown!\" CED (1981-1984)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e✅ RCA SelectaVision SFT-100W\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e🥇First Commercially-Released Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) Player \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe RCA SelectaVision SFT-100W, launched in March 1981 for $499, was the flagship player for the ill-fated Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED) format—a home video project RCA spent seventeen years and over $200 million developing. Unlike laser-based laserdiscs or modern DVDs, the SFT-100W utilized a high-precision diamond stylus that physically rode inside the microscopic grooves of a 12-inch vinyl disc, reading changes in electrical capacitance to send a video signal to a television set. To protect these ultra-delicate grooves from dust and finger oils, the discs were permanently encased in heavy plastic \"caddies\" that users would slide directly into the front-loading slot of the machine, which then extracted the disc safely inside. While the SFT-100W was praised for its simplicity and sharp picture, it arrived right as VCR prices were plummeting, ultimately losing out to the convenience of recordable VHS tapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcquired from: \u003c\/strong\u003eeBay.com \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown!\" CED \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e🥇First Movie Pressed on CED in the United States \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 1977 animated feature \u003ci data-path-to-node=\"14\" data-index-in-node=\"26\"\u003eRace for Your Life, Charlie Brown!\u003c\/i\u003e became a beloved staple of the RCA SelectaVision CED library, offering families a durable and relatively affordable way to watch the Peanuts gang’s summer camp adventures at home. Released in the early 1980s, the movie arrived on a heavy analog video disc encased in a protective plastic caddy, which users slid directly into the player to transfer the disc without ever touching its delicate, grooved surface. Because the CED format relied on a diamond stylus physically tracking these grooves—much like a standard vinyl record—the disc provided a remarkably stable, clean picture that completely bypassed the magnetic tape degradation, lines, and \"snow\" commonly associated with early home-taped VHS copies. The bright, colorful animation of the film translated perfectly to the format’s unique signal, highlighting RCA’s push to market their system as the ultimate, hassle-free movie machine for American living rooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAcquired from: \u003c\/strong\u003eeBay.com \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"RCA","offers":[{"title":"RCA SelectaVision SFT-100W","offer_id":53919600509238,"sku":null,"price":1981.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"\"Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown!\" CED","offer_id":53923972579638,"sku":null,"price":1981.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0740\/4447\/3654\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_8077f907-6da8-4169-ba3a-be1fb3c1d077.png?v=1776993451","url":"https:\/\/www.westporttechmuseum.com\/products\/rca-selectavision-sft100w-ced-player-1981-1985","provider":"Westport Tech Museum","version":"1.0","type":"link"}