Thursday, March 22, 2012

Today in History: RCA SelectaVision Spins (Briefly) Into Stores

March 22, 1981: RCA SelectaVision Spins (Briefly) Into Stores

RCA's long-awaited videodisc system, essentially a vinyl record that played video, hits stores in the U.S. The company spent 15 years and $200 million developing it, only for the system to flop and slip into obscurity, nearly taking its creator down with it.

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