On Wed, 4 Jan 2017 10:10:56 -0800 (PST), wrote:

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Maybe someone should set up a website with feature grids for appliances.

Some places do don't they ... where you tick the devices you want to
compare ... but there isn't a big single site for most of the
appliances that I know of though.

Why have Binatone never realised the brand name is a disaster and changed it?

Good question ... but it's a bit like Bush or even Sony where you got
the good stuff and also the budget / rebranded stuff (and now Bush is
*just* a name I believe).

"In 1959 Binatone started importing transistor radios into the UK.
Over the years the brothers grew the audio based product selection
from radios to a wide range of audio products including world
receivers, clock radios, cassette players and audio towers."

"Dino Lalvani's Binatone Communications Group is headquartered Hong
Kong and has offices in London, Lummen, Indianapolis, New Delhi,
Bangalore and Shenzhen. Main product categories are communication
(landline, mobile), baby monitors, home monitors, pet training systems
and multimedia (tablets, e-readers, GPS sat Nav).[1] These products
are sold under the brands Binatone, iDECT and Voxtel and the licensed
brands Motorola and AEG."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binatone

I wonder if it's one of those things were the older people know the
Binatone name and know what it is (and mostly don't care as long as it
does what they want) and many of the youngsters wouldn't buy it if it
wasn't a big brand in any case (and probably wouldn't appeal to them
either)?

Cheers, T i m