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Originally Posted by ChrisW6ATV
Console User-
The recent devices called "RCA" have less to do with the real/original RCA than any "Zenith"-labeled products from the last 10+ years, which are at least still made by the company that did buy Zenith. Those current "RCA" TV sets are very low-end models, equivalent to various brand-X ones or store brands.
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The loast time I was " in the loop" with all of this (a little over a year ago) RCA was being made by AUDIOVOX, of all people. Their flat panel sets are of very low quality, often like an "Isynphony" or other bargain-basement set.
Then again...NO flat panel set should be expected to last a long time. New plasma sets--once the "dream " of many--are alomst gone...the "word has been out" for a few years now, about how absolutely terrible the reliablilty of them is, how easily they burn, how fragile they are, and how hot they run/how power hungry they are. And LCD panels often suffer from "seperation" of the panel ribbons...often not repairable, since they are soldered by ultrasound..not heat....and the "lead free solder" causes all kinds of problems too, with the ribbons and all else.
Maybe sometime....people will relaize there is only ONE truly reliable, proven, long-lived, inexpensive, relatively simple to run display device out there...and go back to it...the CRT,