Nowaday names don't mean much

[ChrisW6ATV]

Originally Posted by bgadow

I have a hard time thinking of any major American consumer electronics makers still kicking...

Looking around the room I see 4 black & white portables from the mid-60s. GE, Philco, Setchell-Carlson, Zenith.

Setchell-Carlson changed its name to Audiotronics about 1980, and to Dotronix in the late 80's or early 1990's, and they still make video monitors, here in the USA:

www.dotronix.com

Their monitors are still used in airport video display systems around the country, for example. Several years ago, right after Zenith (the then last-existing U.S. consumer TV maker) was bought by LG, Dotronix briefly got some attention when they discussed selling consumer TV sets/monitors, but they never did release any that I am aware of.

[bigolds98]

My friends and I talk about this all the time. There is nothing classic or good anymore. I remember when people bought RCA, Curtis Mathis, and Radio Flier wagons. The list is now endless, because they were American Icons and were known as a quality product. I saw a show on Wal-mart and how they have been the biggest destructor of the Made In America name. Anyway on that show they showed this TV company in China I think it was the Chin-Chin-Wang-chung TV company cranking out TV's the only difference was the stenciled on RCA, Sharp, Magnavox, and Colby names. The TV's were all the same. The bummer thing is I will pay more money for a quality item. I hate that the choices have been made for me buying cheap junk. Plus it angers me to no end seeing once great American company names. Ones associated with a quality product being reduced to a spray painted on decal. I hate those companies that sold out there heritage just to give the CEO a huge bonus. Leaving us consumers with cheap crap. That's why when I find old stuff in good condition I buy it up just to hold on to what was once good. Sorry for the venting.