VideoNow Color Unit (NOT a DVD player) (Alnwickhill EH16)

A VideoNow Color unit. (At least, I *think* it is a color unit - not 100% sure about that). I picked this up at a jumble sale many years ago, hoping to use it as a portable DVD player. But it uses an entirely non-standard (different size) type of discs, and as such *CANNOT PLAY DVD DISCS*.

I think I took it home, realised a regular DVD wouldn't fit (and that it needed it's own type of discs, which I don't have any of), powered it on to see if it worked (it did come on), then put it away in a cupboard.

In hindsight, VideoNow seems to have been a very bad format, with very poor video quality and a limited selection of available titles. See the Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoNow ) or this YouTube video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZrjYliMhfQ ) for more details.

I'm not sure why anyone would want this, but decided to offer it here just in case. Only the unit itself is included, no cables (it can run off batteries, but none are included), and no discs.

To avoid someone doing what I did, and taking it thinking it is a DVD player, please explicitly acknowledge in your reply that you know it cannot play DVDs. Thanks!
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