Zenith

[old_tv_nut]

Originally Posted by NewVista

So Zenith/Rauland's publicity report on their color tube progress is vague and not too promising: They claim to be making a fresh start to a CRT design, distinct from RCA, but their tube looks like a 15GP22, their clone seemingly never made it many numbers - if at all - their R&D budget soon gone? So probably capitulating, using an RCA, like that other giant, GE, appears to have done, to prove to the world that they were fully capable of delivering their own color product!

Research division was not cut until mid 70s.

How much of that prototype tube was a copy of RCA and how much was different is not clear; and of course, prototype receivers for NTSC testing very likely used RCA tubes.