How RCA Changed the World - The History of RCA | Polara YT 

That's a nice overview of RCA, I wish they had touched upon their computer development through the 60's until they sold it off in '72.

I thoroughly enjoyed your video. As an employee of RCA and then in its operations under GE and Thomson for almost 30 years I worked most of that time in the Equipment Engineering group, and then for a few more as a contractor assisting at some foreign operations for them. I am especially pleased that you highlighted the contributions of so many of my predecessors and peers and the many inventions and innovations that derived from RCA, many of which have been significant and many of which are still in use today. I am proud to have contributed a few patents and such as a member of that very large creative group. Thank you for presenting this in such a clear and interesting way, and I think that perhaps I can speak also for so many others that I mentioned to thank you on their behalf as well. Carl Farmer, E.E. Retired

My father worked for RCA starting during World War Ii and into the 1960s. As a result, our family was one of the first in our neighborhood to have television. I remember when, as a kid, he took me to see an early prototype of commercial color television. Great memories!

Good video. One minor quibble. The first videodisc system to come on the market was Laserdisc in 1978. The Selectavision disc system came out in 1981, but was not as high resolution as the Laserdisc system. Selectavision was first demonstrated in the early 1970s and might have had a following if it were released at that time. With an almost ten-year delay, it was already an outdated design. Selectavision's failure is one of the reasons RCA was nearly bankrupt by 1984.

They should have NEVER lost the "Lightening Bolt" logo...

Great video, you hit all the highlights .....

Excellent video, and I remember some of the events you mentioned. I was a teenager in the late 1970s, and I remember the popular campaign to put the dog back on the record label. I can remember reading editorials in the newspaper about it. I also remember the claim that “ColorTrak TVs are the best color TVs in RCA history”. I guess they had to say it that way because by that time two new color systems had made dramatic improvements to RCA’s shadow mask technology: first GE’s PortaColor, about 1966, which featured a new in-line arrangement of the color guns, which accommodated a much-improved shadow mask that allowed a lot more light to reach the screen, producing a much brighter and (seemingly at least) more colorful image, albeit a smaller image. A year or so later came Sony’s Trinitron, which used a similar color-gun arrangement to the PortaColor but which eliminated the mask entirely and replaced it with an ultra-thin-wire grille. The Trinitron screen was barrel-shaped, which complemented the color-gun arrangement such that the image produced was sharper and brighter across the entire screen. The Trinitron was simply THE BEST color CRT television ever produced. I don’t know how true it is, but I’ve heard it said that despite its inferiority, ColorTrak gave Sony a lot of headaches. Trinitron TVs were expensive because manufacturing them was expensive. ColorTrak was such a great improvement on the old shadow mask that the extra expense for a Trinitron just wasn’t worth it for most people. My understanding is that Sony didn’t make huge money on the Trinitron for many years, until they got the contract to produce the CRTs for Apple’s then-new line of color Macs.

Holy crap, this deserves more views! Keep up the good work my guy

thank you so much for all the knowledge here. RCA really contributed a lot.

I’m very new to the history of rca but u feel as though I learned a lot! I became interested because I’m using an old rca color tv from 1995 I watched as a kid for an art project in college! Crazy to think how much they’ve changed the world.

Of any of the American TV/Radio brands, RCA was probably the most diversified with only GE coming as close. Those 2 companies meddled in almost everything that had to do with electricity. RCA even had a video game console, Studio 2. Zenith, while not near as diversified, proved to be their toughest competitor when it came to both radio & television technology. Their mid-century radios were hard to beat and they invented the first 3 versions of the TV remote control. And in the 1970's, their Chromecolor I & II sets blew RCA sets out of the water. They were the brightest on the market and they lasted forever. They were succeeded by their Tri-Focus picture tubes with the EFL electron guns. And while not as long-lasting as the previous Chromecolor delta tubes, they had a picture quality that rivaled the Sony Trinitron. Sylvania GT also had a similar tube but it worn out faster. I also believe GE had released one set with a similar picture tube, but Zenith would use their tube extensively for a few years. It was very expensive to produce and the general public did not care enough about the extra picture quality for them to continue making them. Zenith also played a big role in the HDTV transmission system/standard. Magnavox was the first to produce a home video game console and a digital display. Magnavox and Zenith deserve to be covered also. Unfortunately, those names have completely disappeared from everyday electronics some time ago. Motorola/Quasar was another major American brand who's beset accomplishment was their "works in a drawer modular chassis but nothing else about their televisions stood out. It's amazing how much bigger RCA was though in comparison. And with that being said, it's crazy to see that any of their competitors were able to compete with them on anything as in the case of Zenith, who would struggle on another 13 years after RCA.

Next do SERCO: The biggest company you never heard of yet runs the world.

Excellent !!!

Excellent presentation with an optimistic beat to it. Thanks from Oslo.

I came across a picture taken at RCAs semi conductor plant in Bridgewater n.j. in the mid 60s. I was really pleased and surprised to see my mother working at a microscope inspecting transistors. It was an archives photo. I remember when she got a bad acid burn on her left hand once and sure enough, there was a white bandage on her left hand in the photo!

Please show the stereo division please

I remember a lttle of this. Thanks. Wow! We've come a long way!

Nice video, i searched for the history of RCA as a video because online sources were too convoluted.

RCA , mantuvo calidad hasta mediados de los 90' . luego de esto la marca se prostituyo.ahora solo recuerdos de una marca excepcional.saludos cordiales desde el Salvador.

Thanks for the nice overview of the company's history. If you ever do a sequel or an edit of this I think in addition to PaulHeffner's excellent suggestion to include their computer products, you might also spend some time on Sarnoff Labs and the semiconductor business unit (which was the first to commercialize CMOS digital ICs). One more thing - RCA provided NASA with communications equipment on board the Apollo missions as well as crucial defense systems such as AGEIS and BMEWS.

The RCA trademarks are owned by Talisman Brands, Inc. these days. Talisman carries on the licensing of the RCA brand to various manufacturers that make televisions, internet tablets and major appliances. I own an RCA internet tablet.

Oddly, RCA developed compatible color TV (codified as NTSC) and did have the first "mass produced" set, It was Westinghouse that sold the FIRST compatible (NTSC) TV set!

Go Andrew Stanfield!! Georgio himself,,, whoooo

Probably this would be to let Panasonic re enter the US, by releasing their TVs under the RCA brand for it renaissance for the brand to have more potential from back in the 1950s.

I have a rca xl 100 tv in my room for my ti-99/4a

Don’t think even 50% of rca products was made “in house “ guess they outsourced really much

Why does this sound like this was made with AI voice and script generation?

Open rca radio corporation of america?

Owners of geniuses patents, corporate thieves.... why not talking about semiconductors?? Did you know that taiwan has that technology because RCA transfered it to them?