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A Porta-Color television receiver in use. 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 ...
The RCA connector [3] is a type of electrical connector commonly used to carry audio and video signals. The name RCA derives from the company Radio Corporation of America, which introduced the design in the 1930s. [4] The connector’s male plug and female jack are called RCA plug and RCA jack. It is also called RCA phono connector [5] or phono ...
The whole section outlining the CRT used in the Porta-Color sets is wildly wrong. The only difference between GE's shadow-mask tube and that of RCA's is that the guns in the GE tube were in-line, rather than the delta arrangement of RCA tubes.
RCA antique radios, and early color television receivers such as the RCA Merrill/CT-100, are among the more sought-after collectible radios and televisions, due to their popularity during the golden age of radio and the historic significance of the RCA name, as well as their styling, manufacturing quality and engineering innovations. Most ...
During later model years, the XL-100 line became the middle and then lower-priced color televisions in the RCA lineup. RCA introduced the "Colortrak" in 1976 and toward the end of analog television, the "Dimensia" lines in the mid 1980s. In later years, all three TV lines used the same RCA CTC-xxx (CTC is RCA's acronym for Color TV Chassis ...
The four-tube television camera, intended for color television studio use, was first developed by RCA in the early 1960s. [1] [2]: 96 In this camera, in addition to the usual complement of three tubes for the red, green and blue images, a fourth tube was included to provide luminance (black and white) detail of a scene.
RCA TK-41. The RCA TK-40 is considered to be the first practical [1] color television camera, initially used for special broadcasts in late 1953, and with the follow-on TK-40A actually becoming the first to be produced in quantity in March 1954.
RCA Plugs for composite video (yellow) and stereo audio (white and red) RCA connectors , also known as phono connectors or phono plugs , are used for analog or digital audio or analog video. These were first used inside pre–World War II radio-phonographs to connect the turntable pickup to the radio chassis.