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Originally Posted by rca2000
We all love our Zeniths here...me included...BUT one HAS to admit that, in the "old days", RCA sure did have some sets that "pushed the technological edge"...at least, till about the time GE took over or so. From about the late '60's..till the mid 80's or so... Probably with the KCS-153 or so, taking the step of putting an IC in a consumer product...the FIRST TIME that had been done, in 1966. Then--the CTC-40, then the G2000-in 1969, ...and in 1975, the CTC 74/81"Direct address" sets discussed recently, and in about 1984 or so...the "dimensia" system in the CTC-131/132. ...
TIll then...one could always seem to count on RCA unveling some "out there" idea for one of it's new sets--that would push the envelope, and set the trend for the future. ...
So...what HAPPENED, over the last 20 years or so???
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RCA got raped and pillaged in a corporate takeover by GE in the late 80's, I was there. It wasn't pretty. So pretty much things went to hell there after RCA was no longer a company but just a brand name.
I used to work at the RCA Smornoff Lab, developing digital signal processing of NTSC signals. Got several patents there.
RCA did develop some new good stuff, but they also came up with some big bombs, like that CED videodisc.
They dropped about $570 million on that thing. But 15 years later DVDs came out, and they were a hit. Aside from being digital, go figure.
