Teldec
| Teldec | |
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| Parent company | Warner Music Group (formerly Telefunken and Decca Records) |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Genre | Classical music (Early and Baroque music) |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Location | Hamburg |
| Official website | www |
Teldec (Telefunken-Decca Schallplatten
History
Teldec was a producer of (first) shellac and (later) vinyl records. The Teldec manufacturing facility was located in
TeD video disc
In the early 1970s, Teldec was acting for Telefunken in the development of a disc manufacturing technology for Telefunken's "TeD" video disc player TD1005, released in 1975. The Television Electronic Disc (TeD) system was more or less a predecessor of the more successful optical Philips LaserDisc video system, as the TeD system employed the idea of using FM instead of AM for storing the video signal on a disc for the first time.
The TeD video-disc player used a piezo-electric pick-up cartridge with a diamond stylus, mechanically sampling the frequency-modulated, PAL-encoded audio-video signal from thousands of concentric grooves, vertically recorded into the surface of a very thin, flexible vinyl disc. The disc was freely rotating on a thin cushion of air between the disc and a fixed plate at 1500rpm (25 Hz), the disc being stabilized only by centrifugal force. The sampling frequency of the combined audio-video signal was about 2.7 MHz. Maximum video playing time was ten minutes on a 210 mm disc, amounting to about 15,000 concentric grooves on the disc, each storing two half-frame PAL-video-lines.
Direct Metal Mastering
A technological spin-off from the short-lived TeD video system was Teldec's
Record label
Teldec / Telefunken issued recordings via its own record label from the 1950s. Classical recordings included performances by the
Das Alte Werk
A feature of the Teldec catalogue was its coverage of
References
- ^ Richard Taruskin Text and Act: Essays on Music and Performance 1995 Page 308 "Meanwhile, a competing series, inaugurated in 1975 under the leadership of the German choral specialist Helmuth Rilling, did make it to the finish line in time."
