RCA tv ad from the 50's

[scoobydoorocks10]

@Watcher3223 (cont.) but for a tv that hasnt fired up in 20 years or so, id say its god. and also, ive had it for about a week now, and the picture quality is geting better. and if u set the dials and switches right, u can play games or watch stuff in black and white. all in all, best tv ever made

[chris061290]

wish RCA was still around today. they had such great reputation.

[hobokenplayboy]

Yes. It is Don Pardo.

[StuJeryCo]

0:18 Why, what's wrong with today.

[Buckpenn]

Is that Vaughn Monroe singing?  I do believe it was Don Pardo making the announcement as it sounds exactly like him.

[ewd76]

Is it cable ready?

[thevideorewind]

That is Don Pardo this best in Voice over work. He has done everything from the 60s jeopardy to SNL to commercials etc.

[JohnnyLovelyOfficial]

CREEPY!

[blinkingblythe]

That TV looks more like a 1980s TV set than anything from the 50s.

[71donato]

UUUUU OLD YEARS

[regressing2apes]

cool

[vip2oo4]

I Have Tv 50Hz and it was used in china neat HD 1400x1050 0:16 MAC 46684\7

year:1996

[untypoed]

I hope the creator of Classic TV Ads gets hit by a car. What motherfucker thought it was a great idea to take classic commercials and add a huge watermark in the beginning and end of the video? The logo is ugly. It doesn't take you back at all. I mean wtf. "Ah, beautiful commercial. reminds me of the 50s. Oh look, a logo to a website. Now I'm back to 2009."

[PhiloPharnsworth]

Monroe was a major stockholder in RCA. The RCA factory where your color TV was most likely made was in Camden, New Jersey, directly across the river from Philadelphia...which was the birthplace of the first general-purpose computer, EINIAC. How did America manage to blow its leadership in electronics so quickly? Corporate greed is the primary culprit, I'd say.

[nakamichiguy]

It's a shame. The RCA brand has been lingering in a near-death state for years, and now it's all but vanished. How could one of the greatest American companies come to this? I think we're seeing it again with GM. Will they ever learn.

[LittlePinky82]

We used to have RCA tv's and cd players. They were great. I wish they were still popular and making good products.

[Neville6000]

The RCA Corporation died in 1989; the 'brand's is owned by Thompson and a couple of other companies.

[Watcher3223]

@Neville6000

"The RCA Corporation died in 1989"

Actually, RCA died in 1986. Right now, Technicolor owns the RCA trademark with Thomson, TCL, Sony BMG, and Audiovox licensed to use the brand.

Today, as you know, RCA survives in name only.

[rickbar123]

@Watcher3223 I am reading a book about RCA called 'Capital Moves'. It seems RCA was a company that was always looking to screw its workers.

[Watcher3223]

@rickbar123

Doesn't surprise me, actually.

In the late 1970s and through 1980s up until its demise, RCA was planning on moving a lot of its electronics production south of the border, even their CED players up until the decision to nix player production in 1984.

[rickbar123]

@Watcher3223 I am about 1/4 into the book. I live in Phila, Pa. and can not belive how big the plant was in Camden. All gone now and Camden is a toilet. The owners of RCA started jacking the worker back in the 30s. If not for WW2 they would have moved sooner.

[Watcher3223]

@rickbar123

Of course, what may help to explain (not necessarily excuse) were the economic conditions back in the 30's.

Although, the episode between RCA and Philo T. Farnsworth is notable about the attitudes of RCA leadership.

And there have been environmental abuses with RCA's overseas operations.

I guess, as far as vintage would go, I may have a tad more respect for Zenith.

[Neville6000]

That, and low taxes, plus MBA dummies coming into the corporate boardrooms with no knowledge of anything but economics, and less about anything else-certainly, with no knowledge of how a company like RCA is run.

[kimberlyKfnOphiEAGLE]

I wish I could get my hands on an old RCA or Zenith 'roundie' color TV. My family's first colorset was a Zenith 'roundie'(I thought it was an Admiral but now I remember seeing the Zenith logo on it).

[fromthesidelines]

That is indeed Vaughn Monroe {RCA's #1 "pitchman"} singing the praises of "RCA Victor" TV; this is from a live show, sponsored by RCA on NBC, which had staff announcer Don Pardo on hand to provide a "live coda" for this filmed ad...

[murielsartre]

Don Pardo!

[johneymute]

lasser tv,s existed in 1966 but 42 years later it was finaly viewed to the public at the cees show,now today,s lasser tv,s will be able to view hd programs,however even in 1949 the first hd standard was born and later reinvented!!

[QrzysztofPL]

First HD standard was 819line@50Hz and it was used in France, Italy and Belgium or Netherlands. Next HD standards was Japanese MUSE at 1800x1080i59.94 and european HD-MAC 2048x1152p50. (sorry for my english if i made some mistakes)

[Vinylrecordsneverdie]

Totally argree!

[Neville6000]

SOME of them are made in shitholes (Prima & a few other cheap brands). Most are made in Korea or Japan, and are quite good (mines's an LG LCD set, my old one was an RCA set from 1997, CRT, with stereo, 27 inches.) Might want to check out the new stuff and see if it's any good; you don't want to be watching a Blu-Ray DVD on a CRT screen now, do you?

[Watcher3223]

@Neville6000

"you don't want to be watching a Blu-Ray DVD on a CRT screen now, do you?"

What if you have an CRT HDTV?

Those kinds of sets do exist and don't have the problems with fixed native resolution of both plasma and LCD or the display refresh lag with LCD making necessary the use of interpolation algorithms to process, say, a 24P signal properly drive a 60Hz or faster panel that can end up making film-based content look like a videotaped soap opera.

[MattTheSaiyan]

@Watcher3223 There are CRT HDTV sets? Cool. That would be great to play my small collection of old (and perhaps new?) game consoles (which seem to have an allergic reaction to the HD LCD TV I usually watch shows on, resulting in bad digital artifacting)

[Watcher3223]

@MattTheSaiyan

Unfortunately, light gun games may still not work even on an HDTV CRT because of latency imposed by picture processing as well as what that processing may do to the two frames that flash when the trigger is pulled (a black frame followed by a target frame).

[JohnnyLovelyOfficial]

@wilkes85 exactly!! This is why i love thrift stores!

[Watcher3223]

@wilkes85 "the ones today are made in some shithole by slave labourers, so they're much lower quality, so there's really no point in buying ANY new electronics at all"

Well, there ARE new electronics with high quality, but the problem is that you WILL spend money for it.

For instance, if you want good audio that lasts, you have to step up to at least the mid-range offerings from brands like Denon, Sony ES, or McIntosh (perhaps THE best of all).

Of course, there's 2nd hand as you've said.

[scoobydoorocks10]

@Watcher3223 Totally! i wanted to get a new tv, but i saw an old and good zenith series 3 space command with color sentry television at my friends house, and it works GREAT! it was way easier to set up than the flat screen tv that we have, all i had to do was get an antenna cable, plug one end into the tv, and another end into the vcr. thats it. and the manufacturing date sticker was on it, and it said october 1980. the picture quality jumps around,

[inkey2]

@Watcher3223 I have a 32 inch Panasonic--super flat with a big old picture tube-----weighs a TON........I bought it new about 13 years ago for $550. I've had it on a minimum of 6 hours a day, 7 days a week for 13 years....it would not surprise me if it hits 20 years with no problems

[Watcher3223]

@inkey2

Nice. Panasonic made great high end TV sets in the day. In fact, they even make a great HDTV today, though build quality isn't as good as the old high end CRT sets.

I have a 1989 Sony PVM-2530 that still works well.

However, it's not a consumer product; it was designed for professional/industrial applications. 25 inch screen, but it weighs a lot. Inside, it's got quite a few boards and a good quantity of metal shielding.

[Crossaxel412]

Se your RCA dealer tomorrow! Not today! That's just to much of a stretch!

[scott54555]

Well that makes sense. Back then they had their audience at night so the stores were closed by then.

[scott54555]

The singer sounds Bing Crosby

[meesterfonnyboy]

It's actually the Ames Brothers.

[Buckpenn]

No, I think that's Vaughn Monroe, who was the TV spokesman for RCA Victor in the 50s and 60s.

[torgman]

Is that Don Pardo?

[nebulax]

Sure sounds like him!

[meesterfonnyboy]

It is indeed Mr. Television, or as Art Fleming used to say, "Thank you, Don PardOOO!!"

[pbatommy]

@torgman Yes it is Don Pardo.