Jerrold Electronics
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| Jerrold Electronics | |
|---|---|
| Type | Manufacturing |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Headquarters | |
| Products | Cable television equipment |
Jerrold Electronics was a provider of cable television equipment, including subscriber converter boxes, distribution network equipment (amplifiers, multitap outlets), and headend equipment.
[edit] History
The company was founded by Milton Jerrold Shapp in 1950. The company was one of the earliest pioneers of community antenna television systems (cable t.v).
Shapp sold the company to General Instrument in 1967. However, the Jerrold brand name continued to be used on equipment into the 1990s.
In the late 1990s, the Jerrold name went out of use, and General Instrument merged with Motorola becoming the Motorola Connected Home Solutions division. The equipment was popular with many cable pirates by then and by 2005 most cable companies have discontinued use of Jerrold equipment in favour of digital cable.
