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RCA's bankruptcy is really kinda tragic

the company that pioneered television and later color television too, the namesake of the common RCA plugs used for AV... and they went bankrupt because they refused to accept that the CED wasn't going to work

development of the CED technology took decades longer than anticipated and by the time it came out, laserdiscs were already available with much higher quality, not to mention video tapes

they really should have cut their losses on that one
-F

@Felthry they should've put more effort into one of the holotape formats they were looking at tbh

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