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Originally Posted by gadget73
I think the Philco name is still owned by Phillips actually. They probably use it on that retro garbage, like the Crosley nameplate gets abused.
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Now that the Zenith Radio Corporation is history, I wouldn't be surprised if some day some Japanese or Korean electronics firm would start using the lightning-bolt Z logo, and the Zenith name itself, on replica radios, phonographs, etc.--if they haven't started doing so already. Depends on whether the Zenith name and logo are in the public domain or are still owned by LG.
Magnavox is now a division of Philips, and has been for some time. Their 1990s televisions used to have the Philips-Magnavox branding on them; I had a "Magnavox" branded VCR in the late 1980s-'90s, but I'm not sure whether or not Philips had bought them out by then. I do know that most if not all of today's "Magnavox" branded VCRs, however, are rebadged Funai junk that won't last longer than a year, if that long, and if you're lucky. I don't know about Magnavox-branded DVD/VHS players, but I'd guess they are built by Funai as well, with cheap plastic parts in the drive mechanisms, like everything else these days.
