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At the heyday of TV manufacturing in the late 50's and the 1960's we had some 60 companies making TVs, maybe more. Most were very small business who bought parts from big companies and assembled TVs of their own circuit design ( sometimes those circuit designs were simply pirated from big manufacturers, it was easy to get away with such a stunt in those days ).
Some of the brands I can recall: Invictus, Semp, Windsor, Admiral, Indústrias Reunidas Max Wolfson ( manufactured American Emerson TVs under license ), Colorado, Standard Electric ( subsidiary of the American company ITT ), Teleunião, Empire, General Electric, Philco, Philips, Aurora, ABC, Zenith ( in the 1960's and early 70's ), Bomarc, Telefunken, and the list goes on and on... it was an interesting mix of Brazilian, American and European brands.
Most of those were crushed with the arrival of color TV in 1972. With the exception of Semp ( who in 1977 sold part of it's shares to Toshiba ) the Brazilian brands all but vanished. As for the American brands the only one I can recall that survived thru the 1980's and beyond was Philco ( who became Philco - Ford ). Color TV was very good for European and Japanese brands ( those arrived here in the 70's ). Well, at least in the 1980's and 1990's the TVs were still really manufactured here. Now... they are only assembled with parts coming from China. So we can say that we really went backwards. Unfortunately.
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