I remember when the RCA "Selectavision" VCR came out, and I asked "wtf" does "Selectavision" mean? and was told "IDK" - and when the CED came out that same RCA "Selectavision" VCR owner bought a CED and it "all came together", I said "weird" "wtf" were RCA thinking, and he said how should I know, it's RCA.
Video quality off of consumer recordings or pre-recordings were so bad back then the new pristine CED recordings output actually looked better...but there were the occasional tell-tale "pulls" or line-out flashes due to dirt or imperfections in the media.
I thought those silver flashes were very distracting, I suggested they catch those somehow and invert the output during the flat signal/data loss so they are presented as less-distracting line-black-outs instead. CED didn't last long enough for a V2.0 release, GE killed RCA starting in 1984 only 3 years after CED was launched.
CED didn't kill RCA, GE killed RCA. GE bought back RCA only to get NBC,; then GE broke up RCA and sold off the rest of RCA's assets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA#Re-acquisition_and_break-up_by_General_Electric
GE formed RCA, and GE was forced to spin out RCA by the
US Government in 1930...very interesting stuff.
And, there is a second video:
The CED: No really, it coulda made sense! (Part 2)