Bullish (Video) Vintage RCA Victor Color TV Remote Control Commercial (1960s) Posted: March 18, 2025 | Last updated: March 18, 2025. This is silent footage that was missing the soundtrack.

The initial RCA Victor sets cost $1,000 in 1954. Arland notes consumers that year also could buy a Chevrolet car for roughly the same price, so color TV sales were at first a tough sell.

For the occasion, RCA built a special run of only 200 color sets-designated the Model 5 (the prototype number)-for the NBC affiliates and RCA Victor retail distributors. Other manufacturers, wanting ...

Color television is celebrating some 50th anniversary milestones, ... which makes RCA televisions. RCA Victor color televisions initially were the most popular.

These days, some of the more recognizable names when it comes to TVs are brands like Sony, Samsung, LG, and Hisense. While there are still RCA televisions you can buy today, it's not as ubiquitous ...

Courtesy RCA 1954: RCA begins production of its first color-TV set for consumers, the CT-100. It's destined to become a costly classic. The RCA set had a 15-inch screen and sold for $1,000, which ...

rca victor 1 Articles . Retrotechtacular: Stereo Records. ... The transformation of radio and TV from mono and black and white, to stereo and color.

As RCA's teams here and elsewhere continued to achieve breakthroughs, eventually the FCC reversed itself and endorsed the RCA color TV system, including the picture tube, in 1953.

This is an epic six-minute commercial for the "greatest advance in television since color television itself": RCA's 1961 wireless remote control.

In the mid-20th century, RCA televisions were built in American plants, like the RCA Victor Television Factory in Bloomington, ... the first consumer color TV was built in RCA's plant.