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Originally Posted by kf4rca
Picked up this SV3706 from the roadside. Normally I don't fool with flatscreens. It had sat on a major roadway for a couple of days. I had never heard of Niko. Thought it may be a model designed for a European or Asian market. (My area is about 50% foreigner and sometimes they bring some of their home stuff to the US even though it won't work.)
After dissassembling it, blowing out the dust, and fixing the power switch, I plugged it in. It worked. No screen impact or water damage. Looks like the broken power switch was all that was wrong. Sometimes you get lucky.
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"Niko" sounds to me like a generic branding for TVs made by another company. Most if not all flat TVs these days are made offshore and sold under now-defunct American brand names, such as RCA. It may be nearly impossible to find out where or by whom your TV was made; the brand name on the front bezel doesn't tell you much of anything along those lines. As an example, my own flat screen TV is branded "Insignia", which is a house brand of Best Buy LLC, Richfield (Minneapolis), Minnesota. I have absolutely no idea who actually made the set; it could have been LG, Vizio or any one of 1001 other offshore companies. There is a good chance, however, that your set was made, as you said, for European or Asian TV markets, with the name "Niko" being the actual name of a Chinese, Korean, etc. electronics company which exports its products to the US.