On 15 Oct 2006 04:51:42 -0700, the renowned wrote:

I always wanted the following questions answered but never thought of
asking them:

1)Is Sharp Malaysian or Japanese? as most otheir products always said
"made in Malaysia"

It's a Japanese company. Malaysia is the location of at least one of
their assembly plants.

2)Why did Sony,RCA and Zenith tv quality dropped dramatically since
around 1990-3?
3)When the owner of Sony died around 1990-3 why did the accountant get
the corporation?
4)Why did the law in USA for manufacturers (any kind not just
electronics) being responsible for backing their products by parts &
service change from 7 years to 5 then nothing now?,meaning now you can
buy a product with no warranty and when parts are needed "sorry NLA".
5)Why did LG Goldstar decide to place Zenith crt's in many Goldstar
tv's since they bought Zenith from bankruptsy in 1996 or so?
6)I noticed many JVC products have Panasonic parts what is the
relationship?

Panasonic is one of Matsu****a's trade names (along with National and
Technics). Matsu****a owns a 50% share in JVC (and has since the
1950s), so they should show their preference to components produced by
their corporate overlords.

7)Who invented VHS? Panasonic or JVC? or is it that JVC invented the
tape and Panasonic the machine?

Probably JVC, and it was adoped by their parent company (and a bunch
of other companies) to compete against the Sony Betamax alliance.

8)Why don't manufacturers in USA & Canada provide a large full page
schematic of their tv's & vcr's included in the owner's manual like
many parts of the world?.

They're not user servicable, so no need for a manual. It would just
cost extra money, encourage people to electrocute themselves, and
their survivors might sue.




Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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