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"Never seen an RCA TV in the UK, and I think the GE ones were co produced
with Hitachi. "

Here, Hitachi and RCA had quite the relationship. They built bigscreens
for each other. You could open up an RCA and find a Hitachi or open up a
Hitachi and find an RCA. The last two it seems were Mitsubishi and Sony if
you actually wanted their product, everyone else eventually would just buy
whatever and have it rebadged.

"One of the setups with RCA tubes used a low voltage flyback system - it
was
hard to get transistors that could handle the current. "

Did not run into that problem. I did have some small Emersons that were
hard to get a damper diode for because it was such high current. But not
an RCA. But you said RCA tubes, that is not the fault of the tubes. It is
the fault of the engineers.

I only ever encountered the low voltage flyback system with certain RCA
tubes - and it was largely dictated by the design of the bonded on scan
yoke.