If you haven't noticed lately on the TV market, beginning in January
2005, all Toshiba CRT tube televisions, regardless of what price and
features, have been outsourced and are now made by Orion, the maker of
the low-cost Broksonic, Durabrand, some Insignia, Memorex, Orion, and
Sansui brands. Toshiba no longer manufactures any cathode ray tube
televisions. Toshiba has been doing production business with Orion
since 2001. I wonder if Orion is any good in terms of quality. Will
Orion provide welll-made TVs for Toshiba.

wrote:
If you haven't noticed lately on the TV market, beginning in January
2005, all Toshiba CRT tube televisions, regardless of what price and
features, have been outsourced and are now made by Orion, the maker of
the low-cost Broksonic, Durabrand, some Insignia, Memorex, Orion, and
Sansui brands. Toshiba no longer manufactures any cathode ray tube
televisions. Toshiba has been doing production business with Orion
since 2001. I wonder if Orion is any good in terms of quality.
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if you're in any doubt about that, then just take a look at the crappy
picture most those sets produce., I especially notice the raster size
changes on bright scenes (probably due to poor power supplies) and the
fact so many fail to make it much beyond 16 months!
B.

That must explain the shorted zener diode in the last 15 ... 32 inch new
sets . Clip the diode out & the set works again . Lately the same model
has been showing up without that diode at all .