Didn't even know these things existed, even though our family had the first vhs and cd players in our neighborhood.
Amazing that they actually got this to somewhat work, persistent fellows :)
We used to rent these discs when I was a teenager. They were terribly unreliable. Skipping, stopping, starting over, my god it was a miracle to reach the end.<p>And that's just side one; halfway through you gotta get up off the couch and flip it over and do the whole gauntlet again.
One of my favorite youtubers has a big collection of CEDs, and he made a video about them and their issues: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7UH9QfcIi0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7UH9QfcIi0</a>
Video on audio tapes was a thing: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL-2000" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PXL-2000</a>