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That later list from 94 to 05 should have a few caveats. It is easy to see that many brands appear more than once, often at different ends of the spectrum. Mostly this will be due to a brand swapping suppliers of mechanism in this time, eg Sony did make their own but by 05 sourced their mechanism from Samsung, don't know which mechanism they rate as the better or worse (sometimes I have trouble working this out myself). And in the time before the Samsung mechanism Sony had a couple of different mechanisms of their own of varying complexity.
Philips went from Sharp to JVC to Funai in this time.
Keen eyes will spot that Funai drops significantly down this list, reading the wikipedia article says that about 1993 they dropped Shintom as their mechanism supplier and starter making their own (which is my opinion were diabolical, much worse than their pretty poor most recent mechanism) As you can see, Shintom stays high on the list.
Sanyo is a bit interesting here, did not like their own mechanisms much of this period, then they swapped to Daewoo and things got a little better I thought. The early Daewoo decks of this period are hard to keep going nw though.
JVC were a really mixed bag in this period too, with some good mechs and some not so good
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