Paid $17.01 total including shipping March 2025
"Besides the stereo/mono Service Alignment Discs, there was also a mono-only Service Test Disc (in a white caddy) that was only available in North America during the first year of CED player production. When the stereo players were introduced in 1982, RCA replaced the Service Test Disc with the NTSC Stereo/Mono Service Alignment Disc and recommended no longer using the Service Test Disc, as it hangs up the newer players. This wasn't much of a problem with the "G" line players, as the disc could still be removed, but with the J/K players, the disc hangs the player to the extent that even the eject button doesn't work, making it difficult to get the Service Test Disc out of a J/K machine. It appears that many of the Service Test Discs were simply thrown away or damaged during the removal process, making this an Extremely Rare title today. " - Tom Howe @ CEDmagic.com
https://www.cedmagic.com/featured/service/service-alignment.html
As you can see, it appears RCA must have decided to make use of these particular white caddies. It looks like they removed the bad discs and then inserted movie titles in some of these. Notice "NM" and or "New Master" also written on the caddies. I'm not sure what this means. Were these for employees to take home back in the day to watch? Were there "master" CED discs, used to make copies? I don't know. I did take a look but they appear to look the same as any other CED disc to me.
These were auctioned off on ebay. I was surprised no one wanted them, so I got them cheap. I knew the caddies themselves were very rare and wanted them for the collection. Both Popeye and Superman disc 2, were listed at the same time by the same seller, in separate listings.
As for their true value? I don't know, but I will share that I placed $150 for my max bid in both auctions (for up to $300 for the set). Needless to say, I was crazy happy to score such rare CED items for far less than I valued them. I think because they are SO rare, no one even knows what they are. Notice even Tom Howe doesn't mention RCA re-used these caddies.
Someone else found one of these here:
https://forum.lddb.com/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=8161
(the admin of this site, sent me PM's and told me I wasn't welcome after sharing my CED collection there. He said if I wasn't going to contribute by helping people with their players, I should go and post on redit forums instead. He told me his site wasn't designed for just sharing collections. He allows rude ass holes to post there though, go figure. He's probably one of them. I've no interest of posting there anymore. I had no idea there were such thing as "laserdisc snobs" before sighing up to that site. As if "pre-dvd" quality is anything to write home about today either. Some of them sure are full of themselves. Way too childish for me.)
Notice he claims, his is stamped w/ "RCA Property
Not to be sold, rented, or copied
For employee home use only
Non-Released title."
I've looked mine over closely, for past evidence of this stamp but I don't see any.
My two caddies do not have new stickers on their splines like his copy either. They remain factory labeled as" Service Alignment Disc" on the left and on the right "Stock No. 153394"
