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Philips sells off 70% of it's TV manufacturing
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Chris Frost
02-05-2011
skinj's point is very valid. I worked in TV retail in the mid 80's. There was clearer demarcation between brands and customer's expectations of quality back then. Now it's a free for all. There's no real indication for the novice TV-buying consumer what's missing with the supermarket brands vs the Koreans vs the Japanese.

I'd also disagree that TVs were sold expecting to need service. A few did of course, but usually well in to the second decade of ownership. Compare that to today when TVs are regularly failing just outside of the warranty period. Some progress, eh?
pocatello
03-05-2011
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/st_infoporn_lcds/
And why it doesn't matter.

There will always be complainers, in the 80s if someone had a broken tv no one would hear about it, these days if somethings broken you shout on the internets. For every broken tv there are countless others that will last years more, and have their lives ended by being thrown out replaced by better screens.
Peter the Great
03-05-2011
Originally Posted by pocatello:
“http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/04/st_infoporn_lcds/
And why it doesn't matter.

There will always be complainers, in the 80s if someone had a broken tv no one would hear about it, these days if somethings broken you shout on the internets. For every broken tv there are countless others that will last years more, and have their lives ended by being thrown out replaced by better screens.”

Well maybe that will happen in the future but for the last few years people having been throwing out working tvs that were often better than the screens that they replaced.
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