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I STILL say WE did it to ourselves in killing off our consumer electronics industry.. I remember going w/my parents in say late 1969, early '70 to a furniture store that sold Home Entertainment centers, "Occaisional" furniture, stuff like that. It was NOT an "El Cheapo" kind of place. They had a pretty good line of RCA, Zenith, Sylvania, Motorola "Consoles"... The QUALITY on them was ABYSSIMAL, even to a kid of 12, 13 like me. Wood was all either plastiwood, or fiberboard, hardly any of it on any of these high-zoot-$1K-"Home entertainment Centers" was even approaching REAL. The plastic knobs, buttons, all that was cheap, nasty feeling "Carnival grade" plastic, that I managed to barely touch, & SEVERAL of 'em came off in my hand. The RCA IIRC was sposedly their TOTLfanciest color set, the others were, too, but their pic quality left a LOT to be desired. The "Stirreos" sounded cheap, tinny, boomy-ass bass terrible separation, and the RCA, even on the local FM station was deaf as a stone. Like I said, these were all TOTL "Consuls", I wouldn't have given you a plugged nickel for the lot of 'em. The finish/varnish, IIRC on one of 'em was oily, greasy feeling & STUNK-Kinda smelt like they'd mixed Bat Guano in w/the varnish... If THAT was the best the mighty Amurrican Consumer electronics industry was capable of making, well, Methinks we are better off w/o them. Oh, & yeah, I think none of the TVs were "Soiled State", they were all, mebbe not the Sylvania-STILL largely Tooobs.
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Benevolent Despot
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