[mythtv-users] Which TFT to get?

[R. G. Newbury]

Brian Wood wrote:
> On Mar 18, 2006, at 12:52 PM, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> 
>> Now I will NEVER buy a Sony CD because of the DRM crap, but I WILL buy
>> Sony hardware. Sometimes you do get what you pay for.
>>
> 
> I'd go further than that, I would never buy *anything* from Sony  
> after the DRM fiasco unless there was absolutely no other option on  
> the planet Earth, and I would try hard to check out the deals on Mars  
> and Venus first.
> 
> It certainly *used* to be true that "name brand" gear was in fact  
> better made with higher quality components. I'm not so sure it is  
> true anymore though, what with nobody actually making their own stuff  
> anymore. The company selling/marketing the gear might not even know  
> how and with what it was made.
> 
> Certainly it's been demonstrated that Linksys marketed gear from  
> manufacturers who weren't even aware of the GPL (on a corporate  
> level), The same factories build Compaq and Acer laptops on the same  
> production lines, your "American" car is built in Mexico and the US  
> flag on your car was probably made in China.
> 
> I think they call it "Globalization".

And in the end all of that comes down to a question of whether you 
believe, as a consumer, that the name-brand manufacturer is going to 
exert some influence on the production standards of its suppliers....

And we can all point to name-brand manufacturers who work quite hard at 
that. Since there are probably only about 4 major manufacturers of TFT 
displays, the differences will be in a) the defect levels (pixel 
problems) allowed in the display, and b) the capabilities of the 
electronics including the user-friendliness of the system, And big name 
outfits seem to spend more time on those aspects.

So just because it's globalized does not mean it must become crap. I do 
not expect that Lenovo will start producing crap Thinkpads for example. 
To the contrary, their best interest is to make them better than IBM 
ever did!.

My $.02  (no Goods and Services Tax)

Geoff


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