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Currently we have two articles discussing this topic, and then the redirect here to a subsection of the old-time radio article. Transcription disc is the oldest article with numerous contributors. It is by-and-large accurate, although it is sorely lacking in inline citations. Electrical transcriptions is a newly created article by user:Teblick which is well written and well-sourced. The content of the articles is disparate, so really the merging should be easy. I think Electrical transcription should be the location of the article, as it is in the singular per MOS, and transcription disc is a less-precise term. Comments, please? 78.26 ( spin me / revolutions) 15:59, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
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This article, and especially the pre-Contents paragraphs, have several issues that leave the reader (me) unclear on what an ET actually is:
1 - Why does it actually have electrical in the name? 2 - Why does it have higher quality audio than other recordings of the time? 3 - How does it differ from other 33 1/3 records? Can it be played on a home record player? 4 - What was used before "electrical" transcription? 5 - Why were they only used for radio stations? 6 - Why did they have less "surface noise"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.6.106.6 ( talk) 07:12, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
For some reason, this article uses the odd typography "33+1/3" throughout. It should use the normal "33⅓" or "33 1/3" if for some reason the "vulgar fraction" is unacceptable to MOS. 121a0012 ( talk) 01:05, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
I dispute "the fact that the vertical recordings eliminated rumble". I can see several advantages in vertical recording, the obvious and unstated one being a slower head feed, ie the grooves can be closer together without interference, hence longer playing time. But I would expect the vertical component of rumble noise, which is mostly bearing noise transmitted through the centre shaft, to be similar, if not worse. Doug butler ( talk) 06:37, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
"The new medium was soon applied to a number of purposes by local stations, but not by the networks, which had a policy against broadcasting prerecorded material and mainly used the discs for archiving "reference recordings" of their broadcasts."
Was this American policy? Certainly not Australia in the 1950s, when tapes were unreliable and expensive, and long-distance broadcast-quality lines exorbitant for programs where timeliness was irrelevant. Blue Hills and When a Girl Marries went around the country on 16" lacquered aluminium discs. Doug butler ( talk) 07:38, 27 July 2023 (UTC)