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Originally Posted by Jon A.
The Japanese made some good stuff early on, Sony being the biggest exception.
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Sony was arguably the highest quality Japanese TV of the era. What problem with Sony have you experienced that leads to the exception?
In my nearly 40 years of messing with TVs, working in a shop, and collecting, I've seen lots of Japanese crap - Toshiba (flybacks in tube sets, bad yokes in Solid State stuff), NEC (Tube sets - lots of bad connections and sockets that would flake apart) and Sharp (Open IF cans, early Sharp-specific chips were crap) were the worst. IMO, Sanyo and Sony set the bar - gimme a KV-1710 or 91C90 Sanyo any day over anything of that era.
One exception to the Sony opinion above - the multi-standard (PAL/SECAM/NTSC) sets Sony made were a nightmare - flybacks on the late 70s sets, and the universal power supplies were simply odd.