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Old 11-11-2010, 12:07 PM
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From an ethical standpoint, RCA should be shunned, as David Sarnoff was basically Russian mafia man, who stole most of RCA's technology from others, and he was responsible for the suicide of Edwin H. Armstrong, and would crush any smaller company who might have had a better idea than his.

Zenith was among the crushed, after Sarnoff just about sued them out of business in the early 50s over a Zenith color TV prototype. That's one reason why Zenith was unable to put out a color TV for nearly 10 years after RCA, and the other companies who sold relabeled RCA color sets.

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