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Victor, however, was purchased in 1929 by the Radio Corporation of America and renamed RCA Victor. As part of an effort to enlist the marketing and sales expertise of well-established Japanese conglomerates, minority shares of the Japanese Victor Company (JVC) were sold to the Mitsubishi and Sumitomo financial groups.
Jan 29, 2021 · Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Contributor-mhdl UC Santa Barbara Library Coordinator Media History Digital Library Date-end 1939-12-31T23:23:59Z Date-start 1939-01-01T23:23:59Z Foldoutcount 0 Format Periodicals Identifier completecatalogo00rcav
The company, renamed RCA Corporation, became independent and was led by David Sarnoff. RCA, still the parent company of RCA-Victor, introduced a new invention — the television — at the 1939 World's Fair.
- Japanese-American Roots
- Becoming Affiliate of Matsushita Electric in 1953
- Introduction of VHS System in 1976
- Shifting Emphasis to Digital Technology
- Principal Subsidiaries
- Principal Operating Units
- Principal Competitors
- Further Reading
Victor Talking Machine Company of Japan, Limited was founded in 1927, as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Victor Talking Machine Company of the United States, to manufacture and market phonographs in Japan. Victor, however, was purchased in 1929 by the Radio Corporation of America and renamed RCA Victor. As part of an effort to enlist the marketing...
As a result of the antimonopoly laws imposed by the U.S. military occupation authority, Tokyo Shibaura (the primary owner of JVC) was forced to sell its interest in the company. For the next several years JVC endured labor problems and persistent financial instability. Japan's anti-monopoly legislation was relaxed in stages, so that by 1953 the Mat...
A few months before his 76th birthday, in 1974, Kenjiro Takayanagi retired from JVC, but continued to serve the company as an advisor (he died in July 1990 at age 91). The video division, which was largely his creation, introduced the video home system (VHS) format videocassette recorderin 1976. The system was introduced after Sony's Betamax VCR, b...
Shuzui led JVC on the comeback trail with a new emphasis on high-value-added digital technology, encompassing the D-VHS digital videocassette format, digital video disc (DVD) software and hardware, high-definition television sets, and digital camcorders (including the 1995-introduced GR-DV1, the world's first pocket-sized digital video camcorder). ...
Victor Entertainment, Inc.; Teichiku Entertainment, Inc.; Victor Service & Engineering Co., Ltd.; Victor Real Estate Co., Ltd.; Victor Finance Co., Ltd.; Victor Logistics, Inc.; Nippon Record Center Co., Ltd.; JVC Americas Corp. (U.S.A.); JVC Company of America (U.S.A.); JVC America, Inc. (U.S.A.); JVC Industrial America, Inc. (U.S.A.); JVC Canada ...
ILA Business Group; Display Business Group; Home AV Business Group; Portable AV Business Group; Mobile Entertainment Business Group; Professional Systems Business Group; Components & Device Business Group; Media Products Business Group; Entertainment Software Business Group.
Sony Corporation; Royal Philips Electronics N.V.; THOMSON; Pioneer Corporation; Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
Inaba, Minoru, "JVC Takes the 'Offensive,'" HFD—The Weekly Home Furnishings Newspaper,January 26, 1987, pp. 83 +. "JVC Faces Uncertain Future Scouting for Matsushita," Nikkei Weekly,February 14, 2005. "JVC Undergoing Major Restructuring," Television Digest,July 16, 1990, pp. 12 +. Kane, Yukari Iwatani, "For Matsushita, JVC Subsidiary Is an Albatros...
In January 1929, RCA purchased the Victor Talking Machine Company; this acquisition became known as the RCA Victor division of the Radio Corporation of America, and included ownership of Victor's Japanese subsidiary, the Victor Company of Japan (JVC), formed in 1927 and controlling interest in The Gramophone Company Ltd. (later EMI Records) in ...
PUBLISHED BY AUDIO DEVICES, INC. Í Vol. 5, No. 3 444 Madison Avenue, N. Y. C. March, 1949 The How and Why of RCA Victor's New Record and Player By D. D. Cole Chief Engineer
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Jan 20, 2017 · Vidicons also enabled the development of portable TV cameras and electronic news gathering in the 1950s, space-based video and reconnaissance in the 1960s, and portable and home video revolutions during the 1970s.
