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Originally Posted by JB5pro
Wow!!!
Plus, I find it very interesting that a huge corporation like GE would sell something that was not as good as it could have and should have been
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While RCA and Zenith had 3-tier organizations (research, advanced development, and product development), GE had a fourth tier - cost engineering. Their sets did not go to production until cost reductions were made in whatever chassis design was first created. They did things like put all the back panel adjustment pots on a combined phenolic substrate without the usual metal-enclosed pots that everyone else used at the time. Sometimes these innovations didn't compromise quality, but...
GE along with Motorola developed the 1-tube color section, called the "SODPIL" - "self oscillating detecting phase injection lock." The Motorola chassis with this innovation had some of the worst color ever (weak greens that tended to turn either brownish or bluish), and required a third color adjustment to balance the R-Y and B-Y DC outputs. Motorola touted this as a feature allowing the customer to select sepia or bluish tones for both black and white and color programs.