On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:47:43 GMT, John Horner
wrote:

J. Clarke wrote:
The question you should be asking is why the U.S. completely wasted
their superiority.
Obvious answer, they were reaping in the profits, instead of
spending
some of that money to improve quality and R&D in new technologies.

The big problem was that they were heavily invested in tube technology
and didn't really understand the potential of solid state.

That is total BS. Transistors and integrated circuits were invented in
the US are continue to be manufactured by US companies in volume.
Motorola was a leader in televisions with it's Quasar brand and also was
a big leader in semiconductors.

Ditto RCA in it's heyday.

There was no lack of US involvement in solid state technology or
manufacturing. In fact to this day it is one area where the US still
has a major industrial base.

John

It's a fact that HDTV was pushed by the govt as a jump start to Zenith
and Quasar and Curtis Mathis. The idea was that the consumers would
have to upgrade to a new TV set that would HAVE to be made in the USA,
since the Japanese wouldn't have the capability of making them. It
was a given that it would be an incredible boost to the USA TV
manufacturers. And so HDTV was invented.

This was in 1976. (It's a fact.)

Of course, no TV sets have been manufactured in the USA for over 5
years. Zenith is now LG, and overseas, BTW.