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Mike Fulton · 29th Jul 2018, 9:40 pm

They used a capacitive pickup as I recall and worked quite well but like so many other devices, looking for a market which didn't exist in the hope of creating one.
In the end they were giving away media in an abortive atempt to offload the players they had made to minimise their losses before dropping the format completely - so indicitive of the times.....

29th Jul 2018, 9:40 pm	#2
Mike Fulton Pentode Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: 7 Miles North of Durham, UK. Posts: 130	Re: Hitachi Video disk player They used a capacitive pickup as I recall and worked quite well but like so many other devices, looking for a market which didn't exist in the hope of creating one. In the end they were giving away media in an abortive atempt to offload the players they had made to minimise their losses before dropping the format completely - so indicitive of the times.....