SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back is a television documentary special which originally aired on CBS on September 22, 1980. Hosted by actor Mark Hamill, it is a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of t
Japanese LaserDisc cover
Capacitance Electronic Disc
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The Capacitance Electronic Disc is an analog video disc playback system developed by Radio Corporation of America, in which video and audio could be played back on a TV set using a special stylus and
SP FX: The Empire Strikes Back
…the second Star Wars material to be released to the home video market (in 1981). It was reissued to video in 1982 by 20th Century Fox on VHS, Betamax, CED, and Laserdisc as part of a double feature with the 1977 special The Making of Star Wars. It was reissued separately in Japan on Laserdisc in 1992, and…
Exposed CED disc
200× light micrograph of a CED copy of True Grit (1969), showing that in this special case the closing credits of the film are directly visible on the disc itself. Because adjacent tracks on a CED encode the same line in the video signal across different frames, and because the closing credits scroll vertically at a constant rate, the signal produces a coherent image on the disc medium.