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RCA was such a success because it was always on the cusp of the "next big thing". Superheterodyne, TV, Color TV, solid state TV. I guess young Sarnoff wasn't enough like his father. They developed LED's and video tape systems, computer systems, in the 60s then got rid of them all and brought out the CED and had to sell rebadged Japanese VCR's. The company really needed to be the one who came out with VHS, and then the CD, then the DVD, then the flatscreen. The old RCA would have done that.
I suspect if GE hadn't come along Thomson might have just bought RCA directly at some point, unless GE made them a better deal to buy their standalone consumer electronics division. I really can't imagine GE staying in that business for very much longer than they did.
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03-10-2020, 09:32 PM
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