Posted on 12/16/2016 6:58:35 PM PST by central_va
We have re-rated the statement as True and removed the older report from Trump's Truth-O-Meter record.
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This is not a tongue in cheek question.
I’m so old that the word “turntable” means things like “Dual - Garrard - Pioneer - Technics...etc”
So I have to ask - Is this VPI thingy any good?
TV manufacturing left the US long ago. I think late 70s or 80s.
Nixon got the ball rolling on that. Some American companies wanted access to chinese slave labor. The chinks deposited the standard american politician rate into Nixon's account, and Nixon recognized china. The rest is manufacturing history.
Yeah, our area used to have a Zenith plant - some of the best blue collar jobs around.
JVC closed its last American TV factory, in New Jersey, back about 1999. Production was moved to Tijuana, Mexico. After about 8 years that factory closed too. Back around 2005 Tijuana was the TV manufacturing capital of the world, not anymore. Sony, Sanyo, and other Japanese TV manufacturers have bailed out of Mexico. Production went to China. Why pay a Mexican $8 per day when you can pay a tiny fraction of that to a Chinese worker.
Yes, they’re all made with expensive machined parts in top-quality materials. Over 40 years, of course, they have had some less-successful models and various problems, but the basic quality is very high, and they do sell a lot of units in Europe and Japan.
But it's capitalism, so it must be good.
A few get rich while we race to the bottom.
Magnavox, Admiral, Hoffman, Zenith, GE, RCA, Westinghouse
(others?)
The key components (like the LCD panel) were most likely manufactured in Korea (or China), then shipped to Mexico for assembly, and tax free import to the US. Thanks NAFTA.
I loved when the TV repairman would come and open up the big case with all the boxes of tubes in them.
I recently saw one of those old cases, still fill of dusty tubes, in an antique shop.
Today you just sit the malfunctioning TV out on the curb and go buy a new one.
In 1995 the last US television company (Zenith) was acquired by Korea corporation (LG Electronics).
Clinton Electronics Corp. CEULL1303TE Monitor Black And White
I look at the rust belt and all those "displaced" workers and think they used to make good auto parts now they are idle and we get Chinese junk.
What is the total amount they make to the total sold? Probably minuscule. That is why what Donald says is TRUE.
That was when a color TV cost $450. Today, that would be $1300 or so. Everyone who wants to pay that much for a TV, raise your hands.
My Sony Brava HDTV is made in all places not in Japan but in a Mexican plant. :)
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