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276:. As this market began to saturate, the company split into three parts in 1997; CommScope took the cable infrastructure products, NextLevel the consumer television side, and General Semiconductor the power electronics products. NextLevel took over the GI name the next year. This new GI was purchased by
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was GI's original cable TV brand, active from 1948 into the early 1990s. Around 1993, GI dropped the
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began to drag down profits. As part of this, the company's interest in several cable television stations were sold off, mostly through their
Jerrold division. As soon as the company's financials improved, the buying spree started anew, buying another five companies by 1975. This had turned them into
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2400/2500 Series: There were no on-screen displays: everything was controlled from the remote and front panel. Two alphanumeric displays indicated the current satellite and transponder. A GI 2000PS was needed to use a dish motor. Digital Stereo Audio was available on VideoCipher channels, C/Ku
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Shapiro began buying a variety of electronics companies, mostly from the New York area. An early purchase was F. W. Sickles Company, a radio manufacturer, which was fully merged in 1951. In April 1957 they added Radio Receptor Company, in 1959 Harris
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signals, VideoCipher II. This product took some time to start to sell, but by 1987 they were seeing demand outstrip supply. By the end of the year they had total sales of $ 1.16 billion. This success was short-lived, and by 1990 they were once again operating at a loss.
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Transducer, and among their more notable purchases, closed
General Transistor in 1960. Most of these were left to operate as wholly-owned but independent divisions. The buying continued through the 1960s, added Signalite in 1966 and Universal Controls and
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in 1923 as an electronics manufacturer. During the 1950s, the company began a series of acquisitions under the direction of Moses
Shapiro. Among the more notable purchases was General Transistor in 1960, which led to GI becoming a major producer of
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Shapiro retired in 1975 and was replaced by Frank Hickey, who focused the company on its two most profitable markets, cable television and gaming. The gaming market was primarily through their purchase of
American Totalisator, who ran
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American Totalisator began to wane as other companies, notably
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Semiconductor (power electronics),
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was a system for picking up free and encrypted analog and digital satellite subscription channels. It also included an interactive guide. The product line included:
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throughout the industry. J. L. Seely, manager of MOS Operations at General Instrument Microelectronics Division, also wrote about four-phase logic in late 1967.
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