The company discontinued recording by this process in August 1926, and did not return to electric recording until February 1927, after signing a new agreement to license the RCA Photophone recording process.

Sales for the system were nowhere near projected estimates, and by 1986, RCA had discontinued the project, losing an estimated $ 600 million in the process.

After World War II, however, Bluebird was discontinued and any popular Bluebird artists were moved up to the RCA Victor label.

RCA discontinued use of the Colortrak brand, replacing with the Entertainment Series designation by 2001.

" By 1972 when GE and RCA were no longer in the mainframe business, the remaining five companies behind IBM became known as the BUNCH, an acronym based on their initials.

Many smaller computer companies had come and gone in the 1950s, wiped out when new technical developments rendered their platforms obsolete, and even large companies like RCA and General Electric were failing to make a profit in the market.

RCA decided to protect their investment by releasing her first single as a duet with Wagoner.

Later on in the 1970s, manufacturers of professional video broadcast equipment, such as Bosch ( through their Fernseh division ), RCA, and Ampex developed prototype digital videotape recorders ( VTR ) in their research and development labs.

Following their Super Bowl championship, the Colts would go onto a 13 – 3 record during the 2007 season and would lose to the San Diego Chargers in the divisional playoffs, which would be the final game the Colts played at the RCA Dome, with the Colts moving into Lucas Oil Stadium in 2008.

After 24 years of playing at the RCA Dome, the Colts moved to their new home Lucas Oil Stadium in the fall of 2008.

For small-scale logic, designers now use prefabricated logic gates from families of devices such as the TTL 7400 series by Texas Instruments and the CMOS 4000 series by RCA, and their more recent descendants.

As a result, GE and Westinghouse gave up their ownership interests in RCA.

RCA ’ s Virtual Memory Systems, the Spectra 70 / 46 and 70 / 61 and the RCA 3 and 7 could also run their Virtual Memory Operating System, VMOS.

RCA antique radios and RCA Merrill / CT-100s and other early color television receivers are among the more sought-after collectible radios and televisions, thanks to their popularity during the golden age of radio, their manufacturing quality, their engineering innovations, their styling and their name, RCA.

The first use of letterbox appeared with the RCA videodisc ( CED ) format.

Legal action by rival RCA kept commercial use of the system off the air until June 1951, and regular broadcasts only lasted a few months before manufacture of all color television sets was banned by the Office of Defense Mobilization ( ODM ) in October, ostensibly due to the Korean War.

Dot crawl patterns can be completely removed by connecting the display to the signal source through a cable or signal format different than composite video ( yellow RCA cable ) or a coaxial cable, such as S-video, which carries the chroma signal in a separate band all its own, leaving the luma to use its entire band, including the usually empty parts when they are needed.

Manager Bill Thompson had struck a deal with RCA to allow Jefferson Airplane to run Grunt Records as they saw fit, but still use RCA's distribution.

Fantasia was the subject of two Academy Honorary Awards on February 26, 1942 — one for Disney, William Garity, John N. A. Hawkins, and the RCA Manufacturing Company for their " outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia ", and the other to Stokowski " and his associates for their unique achievement in the creation of a new form of visualized music in Walt Disney's production Fantasia, thereby widening the scope of the motion picture as entertainment and as an art form ".

An important benefit of this technology is that it enables the use of digital multichannel sound with consumer sound cards, which are otherwise limited to digital PCM stereo or analog multichannel sound because S / PDIF over RCA, BNC, and TOSLINK can only support two-channel PCM, Dolby Digital multichannel audio, and DTS multichannel audio.

The first tape cartridge designed for general consumer use, including music reproduction, was the Sound Tape or Magazine Loading Cartridge ( RCA tape cartridge ), introduced in 1958 by RCA.

World War II fragmented the ownership of the name still further, as RCA Victor's Japanese subsidiary The Victor Company of Japan ( JVC ) became independent, and today they still use the " Victor " brand and Nipper in Japan only.

A 2006 RCA reissue makes more effective use of digital processing in an attempt to produce better sound.

Though mini-DIN connectors are sometimes used for S-Video connections, composite video, component video, and analog audio ( mono or stereo ) all use RCA connectors unless RF is used.

Nearly all DJ mixers have two or more phono inputs, together with two or more one-volt line inputs that also use RCA connectors.

Rather than use excerpts from the soundtrack, RCA Victor recorded some of the music with the Boston Pops Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler.

The format was licensed to RCA for use in their " television tape recorders.

Originally, " Distant Drums " had been recorded merely as a " demo " for its composer, Cindy Walker, believing it was for her personal use and had been deemed " unsuitable " for general release by Chet Atkins and RCA Victor.

On February 26, 1942, an Academy Honorary Award was given to Disney, Garity, Hawkins and RCA for their " outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia ".

Stiller subsequently decided to use the song in the film ’ s ending credits, and it was included by Ron Fair on the soundtrack on RCA records.

Two years after the Mutual purchase, in 1987, Westwood One acquired the NBC Radio Network and licensed the use of the name " NBC Radio Network News " ( later shortened to " NBC Radio News ") from General Electric, which was divesting all of the NBC radio properties created or purchased by former NBC owner RCA.

RCA began production of image orthicons for civilian use in the second quarter of 1946.

A number of early microcomputers were based on the 1802, including the Comx-35, COSMAC ELF ( 1976 ), COSMAC VIP, Netronics ELF II, Quest SuperELF, Finnish Telmac 1800 and Oscom Nano, and Yugoslav Pecom 32 and 64, as well as the RCA Studio II video game console ( one of the first consoles to use bitmapped graphics ).

Another solution tried in the late 1930s by Harry F. Olson of RCA was to use multiple exponential flare rates, either by connecting increasingly larger horns in series or by subdividing the interior of a single horn.

The connections on most other consumer equipment use RCA jacks.

The optional TurboVision TV tuner included RCA audio / video input, allowing the player to use TurboExpress as a video monitor.

This unique RF box was also where the power supply connected in a unique dual power / television signal setup similar to the RCA Studio II's.

* The NTSC color broadcast system was engineered by RCA to be backward compatible with black-and-white NTSC television sets.

However RCA had its eye on television broadcasting, and chose not to buy the patents for the FM technology.

By June 1945, the RCA had pushed the FCC hard on the allocation of electromagnetic frequencies for the fledgling television industry.

Although they denied wrongdoing, David Sarnoff and RCA managed to get the FCC to move the FM radio spectrum from 42-50 MHz, to 88-108 MHz, while getting new low-powered community television stations allocated to a new Channel 1 in the 44-50 MHz range.

However, RCA refused to pay him royalties and encouraged other television makers not to pay them either.

The first color NTSC television camera was the RCA TK-40, used for experimental broadcasts in 1953 ; an improved version, the TK-40A, introduced in March 1954, was the first commercially available color television camera.

Old television Indian Head test card | test pattern, created by RCA in 1939 and widely used until color television gained in popularity

RCA demonstrated an all-electronic television system at the 1939 New York World's Fair, and developed the USA's first television test pattern.

World War II slowed the deployment of television in the US, but RCA began selling television sets almost immediately after the war ceased.

( See also: History of television ) RCA was involved in radar and radio development in support of the war effort.

This greatly assisted RCA in its television research.

RCA cameras and studio gear, particularly of the TK-40 / 41 series, became standard equipment at many American television network affiliates, as RCA CT-100 (" RCA Merrill " to dealers ) television sets introduced color television to the public.