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Michael A. Covington
 
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Default tackiest brand names/worst brands TV/VCR/stereo etc?

Often, "off-brand" machinery of any type is simply last year's model of a
name brand. I remember around 1970 opening up a Lafayette (house brand)
cassette player and finding Pioneer parts. Other Lafayette tape recorders
were Sony's previous year model.

And some name brands (e.g., RCA) no longer correspond directly to any
manufacturing facilities -- they are just names that have been sold.