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General Electric's Porta-Color was the first "portable" color television introduced in the United States in 1966. The Porta-Color set introduced a new variation of the shadow mask display tube. It had the electron guns arranged in an in-line configuration, rather than RCA's delta arrangement. The main benefit of the in-line gun arrangement is ...
1978 Apex Digital: 1997 2010 Apple Inc. 1993 present Released the Macintosh TV in 1993 Arcam: 2011 present Arise India: 2012 present ... General Electric: 1947 1986
The company also owned television stations such as KOA-TV (now KCNC-TV) in Denver [39] and WSIX-TV (later WNGE-TV, now WKRN) in Nashville, [40] but like WRGB, General Electric sold off most of its broadcasting holdings, but held on to the Denver television station [41] until in 1986, when General Electric bought out RCA and made it into an ...
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1978 in television may refer to: 1978 in American television for television-related events in the United States . 1978 in Australian television for television-related events in Australia .
NBC eventually aligns with Ted Turner-owned independent station WRET-TV (now WCNC-TV), tempted by promises Turner made to NBC to make $2.5 million worth of upgrades, including a stronger transmitter and the launch of a news department; former ABC affiliate WCCB becomes an independent station, and eventually a charter affiliate of Fox in 1986.
Use was prevalent in televisions because transistors were slow to achieve the high power and frequency capabilities needed particularly in color television sets. The first portable color television, the General Electric Porta-Color, was designed using 13 tubes, 10 of which were Compactrons. Even before the compactron design was unveiled, nearly ...
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