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Originally Posted by nasadowsk
Why did RCA hang onto kinescope for so long? Wasn’t it something like Philco or someone else had the trademark for “picture tube”? Also, I think Ampex had the trademark fir videotape early on.
Or it could have just been RCA adopting weird names fir things. Ultor?
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Kinescope was Zworykin's name for the device, so RCA used it and other makers avoided it.