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Originally Posted by CRTguy
Another similarity between the tubes is that both tubes have a bold "M" at the top of the label with a square around it. This is the symbol that Matsushita used on their tubes to indicate that they manufactured the tube. This is the symbol I'm referring to, https://deskthority.net/wiki/File:Br...(IE139097).svg. |
So, I am not saying that I know for sure here one way or the other, but none of those observations are a "smoking gun" for the actual manufacturer of the tube.
In fact, by the time this TV was made, Panasonic had long since already started to farm out the manufacturing of their own devices to Taiwan, Singapore and other places in the Far East.
It is entirely possible and would not be weird that the tube is the same tube used by Panasonic in their own sets AND also made by Orion, specifically for Panasonic (thus the "M").