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DuMont in the early years tended to focus on the high end of the market, with the largest screen sizes and the "First with The Finest in Television" marketing. Fine cabinetry, and over-engineered chassis would sell well to "early adopters" and folks who could afford the finest stuff.
But as TV sets became a commodity, and prices started falling by the mid-'50s, DuMont couldn't keep up with the other major brands, as well as the dozens of smaller makes that came and went. Just like today, there isn't nearly the demand for high-end home theater quality sets as there is for cheap sets from the big box retailers.
DuMont was an early victim of "good enough" mass-market electronics, and the costs of trying to run an independent TV network to compete with the big 3 didn't help, either. The consumer TV division eventually was swallowed by Emerson, and their CRT/instrument/oscilloscope division went to Fairchild.
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