On Jan 20, 2:38*pm, Lab1 .@... wrote:

This is obviously made in China, everything is pretty crudely
manufactured and assembled,

Most consumer electronics stuff these days is made in China! From low
end kit to decent, so you can't generalise that something made in
China is automatically shoddy.
Although a fair proportion is indeed cheap and disposable, that is the
case because they are responding to a demand. They only supply what
the west is prepared to pay for anyway!

Pet hates: excessive amounts of screws holding covers of TVs etc.
together. this seems to have got worse with flat panels.Often you
spend as much /more time assembling and re-asembling than the repair!

-B