RCA and You

[Carmine]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

RCA & Zenith PISSED AWAY leadership in electronics as much as the Japs swiped it from them...They started listening to Cost Accountants, Brand Managers, other forms of "Business" vermin who convinced them the road to Nirvana was selling to the lowest common denominator..I remember when I was 12-13 or so, about 1969-70, & I was seeing RCAs & Zeniths in "Cut-Rate" stores- All-Mart, Rose's, S.S. Kresge..They started selling "Consuls" w/plastic fronts, vinyl woodgrain over fiberboard...You NEVER saw a Sony or Panasonic down there w/the "Dogs & Cats" like that..They did it to THEMSELVES as much as anything...

Really Sandy? You know because you were in those boardrooms right? You must have at least read that book I mentioned... No? So when Zenith won an Emmy for MTS stereo in the 80s, that was because they were "down there with the dogs and cats"? At least there were never any Panasonic or Sony's with "simulated woodgrain finishes". Oh wait, I HAVE a Sony with a sticker that actually says that. And those '69 shareholder reports that show Zenith working with laser and plasma flat displays were just lies. Zenith's work in the Grand Alliance HDTV standard didn't occur because you noticed those economy 23" metal cabinet sets they pretty much made just for a presense in K-mart... America's number one retailer at the time.

Anyway, I'm not going to waste time telling you what you don't know. I'd just like to know why you always have to chime in with your folksy, nostalgic BS? It's like listening to your know-it-all uncle drone on about the "gubbbernment", but he can't tell you the state capital. You really don't know what you're talking about, but it never slows you down does it?

[Sandy G]

Originally Posted by Carmine

Really Sandy? You know because you were in those boardrooms right? You must have at least read that book I mentioned... No? So when Zenith won an Emmy for MTS stereo in the 80s, that was because they were "down there with the dogs and cats"? At least there were never any Panasonic or Sony's with "simulated woodgrain finishes". Oh wait, I HAVE a Sony with a sticker that actually says that. And those '69 shareholder reports that show Zenith working with laser and plasma flat displays were just lies. Zenith's work in the Grand Alliance HDTV standard didn't occur because you noticed those economy 23" metal cabinet sets they pretty much made just for a presense in K-mart... America's number one retailer at the time.

Anyway, I'm not going to waste time telling you what you don't know. I'd just like to know why you always have to chime in with your folksy, nostalgic BS? It's like listening to your know-it-all uncle drone on about the "gubbbernment", but he can't tell you the state capital. You really don't know what you're talking about, but it never slows you down does it?

Oh, and, EXCUSE DAPHUCK outta me for having an opinion, & expressing it...I realize that I'm just an old, inbred, ignorant hillbilly PRICK, I'll just keep my goddam trap shut on any of your threads, it obviously INFURIATES you entirely too much...BTW, NASHVILLE is the State Capitol of Tennessee...So there. N'yah, n'yah..