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Did Orion make picture tubes?
This is something I've been confused about. I've owned quite a few CRT TVs that were made in the '00s from JVC and Toshiba that used tubes that had an Orion sticker on them. I assumed these tubes were actually made by Orion but some sources that I've come across (primarily the CRTgaming subreddit and the "CRT Collective" group on Facebook) claim that Orion designed and made the TV boards but that they never actually made picture tubes and that the actual tubes in TVs that used Orion boards were made by other companies such as Toshiba and Panasonic. What I'm confused about is, in CRT TVs that used boards that were made and designed by Orion, did the other companies design the tubes and then Orion built them in an Orion factory or did the other companies design the tubes and make them in their own factory?
To give you an example, one 27" CRT TV I owned was a Toshiba 27A33 that used Orion circuit boards but had an Orion sticker on the tube and the tube model # was M68LWF088X. This tube looks very similar to a Panasonic tube and I know that Panasonic often used "M" tubes in their CRT TVs which makes me wonder if this tube was made by Panasonic.
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