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Old 09-13-2013, 09:47 PM
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I read, or heard, likely here, that Cdr. Eugene F. McDonald, Jr, the Wheel Horse at Zenith, didn't like television, only reluctantly got into it when he saw how BIG of a market it was gonna be. RCA held most of the patents, he told his engineers not to bring one out til it was RIGHT, & that's why Zenith TVs, even into the color era, often don't require the level of rebuilding the other brands do..Maybe that's BS, but as the owner of a still-performing Porthole, I like to think that's right...
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