On July 19, 2007 at 17:02, Ernie Bornn-Gilman said...
It's been my experience in a manufacturing environment
that there can never be enough rejects to ship to someone
so they can use them to create a cheap line of crap.
"Seconds" is the term I used, but was probably inaccurate to what I was trying to convey - what I mean was panels that perhaps fall outside of the tightest performance spec, but are in no way inoperable or defective. I agree with you. Vizio is a billion dollar company now - that's a lot of panels!
Also, rejects are usually shipped back to the company
that made them: no manufacturer will buy a thousand of
something, have five bad ones, and just eat those five!
They will negotiate in advance to have those five returned,
probably freight free, to the manufacturer. What, now,
can the manufacturer do with five of them? Or even one
thousand? A thousand isn't enough plasma displays to
amortize any kind of package design, especially if it
involves plastic molds!
However, the fact that some brands (Maxent being one) will make the same model TV and use several different glass suppliers indicates that they're having to do some sort of creative sourcing for one reason or another.
I'm sure we could all integrate them. It's just that
our customers would have to deal with lack of discretes
and other things that keep them from being run with a
single button push -- without humans having to make decisions
along the way -- which is anathema to any of us installers
who deal with good product.
Integrate seamlessly, I should have said. It's a good way for you guys to tell who really cares about you and your customers, right?
Oops. I think you meant to indicate that this is your
opinion, but you implied that your company does not agree
with you, so you inadvertently spoke on their behalf....
No, I was saying that what I was spouting was not my company's opinion. I can say with certainty that Audio Authority Corp. has precisely NO official opinion on Vizio, whether positive or negative. But I'll correct my earlier post to make it more clear :). Thanks.
