1968 RCA Commercial #1 of 2

A commercial made by my father in aprox. 1968 for RCA stereo.

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[galesayers]

Kid, keep living. In a minute, you will blink, and 30 years will have shot by, and all that you think is new and innovative and cutting edge will be Smithsonian material. That's life, the way it's always been. You just can't see it because you're a kid, just like every other kid, 30 years before you, and more.

[auaiao9]

IerOnoO,

It wasn't a piece of crap at all in '68. It was as top notch as anything today. It was the newest, the latest, and we enjoyed our appliances that were in the showrooms and displays ready to be taken home. And too that's an old commercial. Actually having that stereo in your house would sound much better.

[freemantom]

LOVE it! 

[narro52]

I have a big RCA console just like the one in the Commercial and it works great !! So sad that America lost its pride. And when you felt proud to say this product was made in the U.S.A. Not like all the Crap we have to buy from another over sea Country.

[kirbyyasha]

Sad that RCA went from one of the best, to close to the worst. I had an old late 60's RCA TV, still worked till the day I gave it away. I bet it's still working to this day. Buy a new RCA product today? Lucky to get 2 weeks out of it lol

[boogiefever1985]

That massive stereo does what an iPod does now, well the iPod tries anyway

[djaps]

these were the days

[Stereo4102]

For that time RCA records began to be issued with the infamous "orange label" design (Huge landscape RCA logo at the left and the series at the right) and without the pet of fine music lovers, Nipper. I think it was for RCA American made records being sold in Europe and other countries in which "His Master's Voice" was EMI's trademark. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Watcher3223]

@singlejeff69 "Thomson Consumer electronics bought the RCA and GE names sometime in the later 1980's,,and thus,,all the televisions became junk within hours of that change."

Thomson SA (now Technicolor SA) purchased various RCA assets from General Electric in the late 1980s.

In 1986, GE bought and took RCA apart and sold the pieces.

GE kept NBC, sold the record business to BMG and sold the electronics business to Thomson.

Today, the RCA trademark is owned by Technicolor.

[singlejeff69]

After bieng in radio and tv service since '77,,,if memory serves,,,that RCA logo in the background was new sometime in early/mid 1969.By then Color TV had become more the "norm". I think before 69,,,the former round "Lightning" logo since the 40's was used. Someone else might know better on the exact switchover dates. Also,,,Thomson Consumer electronics bought the RCA and GE names sometime in the later 1980's,,and thus,,all the televisions became junk within hours of that change.

[GeneralFantastic]

@galesayers

it won't be Smithsonian material. it'll just be useless obsolete junk.

[delosdmi]

@Watcher3223 McIntosh is very good equipment but also very very expensive.