The TeD videodisc was developed by Telefunken and Teldec. It was an early attempt to store analog video on a record disc. (John Logie Baird, the inventor of a mechanical television system with a resolution of 30 lines, experimented with storing video on 78 rpm records in 1928.) The signal was stored in the varying depth of the groove, as in early audio records from Edison and Pathé. This allowed very fine, closely packed grooves of 130 to 150 per mm (Fisher 2000). The disc was made of a thin flexible plastic. It was spun at 1500 rpm, which lifted the disc slightly to provide a cushion of air. Each one-sided disc held 10 minutes of color video. The discs were held in a cardboard envelope that acted as a caddy. The envelope was inserted into the machine along with the disc (databits 2023).

TeD was announced in 1970 and released in 1975. It was quickly overtaken by VHS and Betamax, which came out around the same time. Unlike TeD, VHS and Betamax cassettes could hold a complete movie and allowed home recording. Telefunken itself adopted VHS in 1978.

The movie is an action film that takes place during the 1968 Six Day War in the Middle East (IMDb 2025).