Editing Capacitance Electronic Disc (section)

== Market reception ==
Capacitance Electronic Disc's competitors, Philips/Magnavox and Pioneer, instead manufactured optical discs, read with lasers.<ref name="selectavision-spins-briefly"/> On April 4, 1984, after sales of only 550,000 players, RCA announced the discontinuation of CED videodisc players.<ref name="selectavision-spins-briefly">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/2012/03/march-22-1981-rca-selectavision-spins-briefly-into-stores/|title = March 22, 1981: RCA SelectaVision Spins (Briefly) into Stores|magazine = Wired|last1 = Hernandez|first1 = Daniela}}</ref> RCA's losses since the product's introduction were eventually estimated at $650 million.<ref>Peltz, James P. "RCA to Exit Videodisc Hardware Field" (AP story). Yonkers Herald Statesman, 5 April 1984, 18.</ref> The huge financial losses partially resulted in [[General Electric]]'s acquisition of RCA in 1986, and the abandonment of the "SelectaVision" brand on all RCA video products.<ref name="selectavision-spins-briefly"/>