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Old 08-19-2006, 12:58 PM
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Retail store chains often rebrand TVs with their own names (house brands), or at least they used to (now most foreign-made sets are branded with the names of former American TV makers like RCA, GE, Sylvania, et al.) even though the set itself was almost certainly manufactured offshore. I bought a small 12" b&w TV in 1975 from a retail store in suburban Cleveland, the now-defunct Kennedy and Cohen retail chain (which went out of business some time in the early 1980s, IIRC). The TV was branded "Kenco", but, if I were a betting man (I'm not), I would be willing to bet the chassis (tube type, all on one large PC board except for the tuners and control cluster) was made overseas. In fact, I believe this set was actually made by a company, now defunct, called Broadmoor. (The set worked well for three years, however, then burned up.) The "Bond" television under discussion here sounds very much to me like it's a rebranded set as well.
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