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Who remembers Tandberg?

They where big here in Sweden before the japanese strike hard in the 1970's. Even my paraents had a TR-200. Every Swedish school had Tandberg tape recorders, they where virtually impossible to break. Even for clumpsy teachers...

A Tandberg speaker where among the runner up's before the Swedish Radio bought a couple of truckloads of NS1000M's around 1976.

Those where the days...

JohanR
 
I remember Tandberg. All our new video conferencing hardware comes from them.
 
In the very early 80's my folks had a Tandberg TV at home - it was a superb thing, easily bettering the Sony Trinitrons at the time.
 
joel said:
I remember Tandberg. All our new video conferencing hardware comes from them.
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Ours too - but now owned by Cisco, acquired in a desperate attempt to get Tandberg interoperability capability built into the telepresence software...all IMVHO of course :)

Richard
 
Dowser said:
Ours too - but now owned by Cisco, acquired in a desperate attempt to get Tandberg interoperability capability built into the telepresence software...all IMVHO of course :)

Richard
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I work in AV and I think there is a more deep rooted reason for the IT boys buying up VC players.

Polycom must be scared they will be left out in the cold.

I remember Tandberg tape recorders at school.
 
That would be that integrated communications is the future, no? Everything is IP based now, I can use my MOC to launch a desktop VC session to a room based system on internal network. Multiparty, whiteboarding, desktop sharing all available easily, and all integrated with latest Sharepoint/Webex technologies too.

I remember old Tandberg tuners in Switzerland - great pieces of kit.

Richard
 
flatpopely said:
I work in AV and I think there is a more deep rooted reason for the IT boys buying up VC players.

Polycom must be scared they will be left out in the cold.

I remember Tandberg tape recorders at school.
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Tandberg data had been driving the tape data storage business for years. I worked for them during the early to mid 90s. The tape data business took on DAT and a host of other formats and drove big volumes in the server back up market. HP and IBM currently sell about $3bn a year for protecting mission critical data and this is now far bigger than the professional recording market. This market is in turn in decline with the advent of cheaper and higher capacity HDDs being the flavour in IT. Tandberg Data filed for bankrupcy in 2009, but the spin off parent Tandberg, now specialised in Video Conferencng and this was bought by Cisco to bolster it's own VC portfolio under its unfied comms strategy.

If one remembers the VHS/betamax video wars or DAT/DCC flops in audio market, one can imagine that there have been many losers and few winners in tape data, and more and more cooperation from the big manufacturers in trying to drive open format standards.

Tandberg previously dominated with DC600/6000, then lost to DAT and more recently LTO formats. The formats refer to how data is written to the channels on tapes. LTO format currently tops out at 3TB data per tape. That is a lot of music..

A classic case of get big, get niche, or get out (get bought)

Nonetheless they were a very technically talented bunch up in Oslo and it is a shame to see that technology skillset ending up recording phone calls...
 
flatpopely said:
Consumer vc is the holy Grail.
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Hi Andrew,

Surely Skype has that covered now, along with central services like Webex? Any opportunity is really around services you can offer to make use of existing technology easier? A social website that facilitates video calls for instance.

I'd also like to be able to hang my HD webcam on my LCD TV, plug it in to a USB port that doesn't exist on the TV, and use the LAN port that also doesn't exist to video Skype my parents.

Sorry for dragging so far off topic!
Richard

Edit to add: their VC technology is very good, and Tandberg TP is more intuitive and configurable than Cisco's offering.
 
Love my Tr 2075....listen to it every day. One of the reasons the demise of FM has me fuming...
 
one of my uncles had a system involving a tandberg cassette machine inthe 70's.

It also had a Rogers Ravensbourne and Goodmans Magnums, a Leek tuner and a TT which i can't recall much about but it had a shure cartridge.

I remember how much better my original 1984 system sounded, which involved a Dual CS505-2, Nad 3020A, Kef Coda iii's and an Aiwa ADF220, plus a pioneer digital tuner (TX940L).

The guts of that system which still survives in my parents' living room (sans TT) and now with Kef C0's due to space limitations now sounds totally crap to me.

Strange how things move on!
 
I remember the rep brought in a radio, said give this a try you like it. I did very sensitive radio as well. :) A well liked boss treated workers well.:)
 
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