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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007
They tried to save what they could possbly save.
C.E.D. ate a lot of money... I wonder how the company might had been if it hadn't had invested in the C.E.D. Could they invest in more modern tv sets, better made and Made in U.S.A.
Dumping was one thing, but why U.S.A. didn't invest more in electronics that could be as relaible as the Japanese ones.
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Until the solid state era Japanese electronics tended to be less reliable than American electronics according to all the accounts of former repairmen I've read here.
The CED idea had been in development since 1959... Mostly stymied by egg heads in RCAs R&D division (daycare for PHDs) trying to make it with then unmanufacturable technology like Lazer holograms.
Had they developed it such that they could have brought CED to market at least 2 years before Betamax (instead of a few years after VHS) it would have achieved market dominance in the rental and pre-recorded movie market and it would have been a money maker rather a financial drain.
If RCA had launched CED in 1968, made money on it and dusted off and started building LCD TV technology (which they had already invented and shelved) for the consumer market in the 70s it would have thrown the Japanese makers for a loop.