End of RCA CRTs as Thomson sells off tube business
We grew up at a time when RCA was a major brand — we still remember the company's logo towering over New York, before its eponymous building was rebranded as GE's headquarters. But ever since the brand was sold to Thomson in 1987, it's been hard to get excited about it. After all, there really is no RCA anymore, as in "Radio Corporation of America." It's just a marque, used by a global manufacturer to market its products in a country where the name still has some resonance. So, it's hard to get too broken up over the news that Thomson is selling off its CRT-based TV business to India's Videocon, which will likely lead to the end of RCA-branded CRT TVs. However, Toob has seized on the news as a chance to wax nostalgic, and at the very least, Toob's history of the company is a good read. But we somehow suspect that those few consumers still looking for an RCA TV will be more than happy to pick up one of Thomson's Chinese-made digital models.
