Spoiler: One thing I noticed immediately...

Whooooa, those aren't vinyl records! Those are videodiscs for the RCA Selectavision! Holy fuck, I
finally have a reason to sperg about this thing. Here's the one that's visible, "On The Town" from 1949:
The Selectavision was RCA's very late entry into the home media format war, arriving a full half decade after VHS and 6 years after Betamax. Its development process was hilariously prolonged and the format could have completely dominated the early home video market had it not taken well over a decade to see any kind of commercial release.
Unlike the tape-based VHS and Betamax, or other obscure oddball formats like the VX tape or the Sony Umatic, the Selectavision was like a weird hybrid of a vinyl record and a Laserdisc. The film was etched into grooves on electrical capacitance discs and read with a stylus, much like a phonograph.
RCA really
did think this shit would take off, but Beta and VHS were already firmly established and had far bigger back catalogues, and Laserdisc had better video quality. There were some pretty big downsides, too. Each side could only hold 60 minutes, so you had to manually get up and flip the disc over at the 60 minute mark. This also meant a disc could only hold 120 minutes of film and longer movies needed to come on multiple discs. The format didn't have home recording capabilities, something both Beta and VHS had. And, really, just the fact that the fucking thing didn't come out until
1981.
If RCA didn't draw out the engineering phase so much and put this thing out in, like, 1973, it would have sold like hotcakes and probably stopped the company from going bankrupt when it did. Beta came out in '75, VHS the year after, and the Laserdisc in 1978. RCA was not only late to the party, they were late with a product that nobody wanted. The only real edge was that they were cheap, but even then the price of VHS and Beta had dropped enough by 1983 that this wasn't a selling point anymore. RCA gave up on making Selectavision players in 1984 and discs ended production in 1986. Discs are hard to find nowadays, but the players are damn near unobtainium.
I find the fact that Borb owned one of these to be some sort of ineffable cosmic manifestation of Chandler failure. It makes perfect sense that the home video format they chose to hitch their wagon to in the early 80s was the one that ended up failing so hard it was part of the reason RCA went bankrupt.