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American Made TV's or American TV Company.
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| Topic: | American Made TV's or American TV Company. This thread has 97 replies. Displaying posts 1 through 15. |
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| Post 1 made on Thursday July 7, 2011 at 21:32 |
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One of my customers just had a fire in his basement. (popcorn popper). He works for one of the Big 3 and expressed interest in an American Made TV at our last visit.
I know Nexus is an American Company.
I believe Vizio is also an American Company.
Although these are American Companies, their products are manufactured overseas. I don't want to get into a debate over American Vs. Foreign, and who makes what where.
I'm just doing my due diligence for a guy who wants to support the American worker.
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| Post 2 made on Thursday July 7, 2011 at 21:56 |
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runco is about as american as it gets.... maybe dpi
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| Post 3 made on Thursday July 7, 2011 at 22:04 |
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Bypass the tv and push american made speakers and components. Better value and performance for your client.
Being here I run into it often. There is no benefit in the display being from an american company.
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| Post 4 made on Thursday July 7, 2011 at 23:49 |
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Displays use hugely integrated parts, not lots of discrete parts, and the demand is HUGE, so they've mostly been converted to overseas manufacture to take advantage of overseas labor rates.
longshot's right -- and you can expand your search for American products to anything that's truly custom built, or built in small quantities, of discrete parts. I'd guess there are American tube amps, definitely loudspeakers, etc.
Also, I might be wrong but I'd think something with a low dollar/volume density is less likely to be made overseas. That is, wire; it weighs a lot, so is expensive to ship, but doesn't sell for a huge price. Tell him you're using American wire (so the sound won't have a foreign accent).
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| Post 5 made on Friday July 8, 2011 at 00:38 |
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Arent all panel manufacturing facilities in Asia? There may be some assembly facility in America, but I thought all the panels come from a very limited number of manufacturers.
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| OP | Post 6 made on Friday July 8, 2011 at 06:47 |
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On July 8, 2011 at 00:38, Fins said...
Arent all panel manufacturing facilities in Asia? There may be some assembly facility in America, but I thought all the panels come from a very limited number of manufacturers. Yeah, I believe you're right. I think he would be happy enough with an American company that has the manufacturing done in Asia. So it looks like it's going to be a Nexus or a Vizio as far as I can tell. Yippeee.
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| Post 7 made on Friday July 8, 2011 at 08:59 |
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I wonder how much of his American made cars comes from overseas? I know the Charger and Challenger are made in Canada with the Hemi engines coming from Mexico. I guess North and Central America count as being made in America. And if you look at it that way, then there are alot of TVs being made in Mexico. Sharp and Samsung both have plants down there, they are as American made as those Hemi engines.
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| Post 8 made on Friday July 8, 2011 at 09:39 |
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Vizio.
Made by LG in Korea.
American made TV? surely you jest.....
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| Post 9 made on Friday July 8, 2011 at 09:55 |
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The 2 most "American" cars are still "Imports"
I dont believe there is a Single car that is 100% Made in the USA with all United states parts.
the recent trend of counting Canada in "Made in America" is quite clever actually....
Sell him a Panasonic.
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| Post 10 made on Friday July 8, 2011 at 10:23 |
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On July 8, 2011 at 09:55, Impaqt said...
the recent trend of counting Canada in "Made in America" is quite clever actually....
Thanks to NAFTA.
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| Post 11 made on Friday July 8, 2011 at 10:23 |
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On July 8, 2011 at 08:59, anyhomeneeds said...
I wonder how much of his American made cars comes from overseas? I know the Charger and Challenger are made in Canada with the Hemi engines coming from Mexico. I guess North and Central America count as being made in America. And if you look at it that way, then there are alot of TVs being made in Mexico. Sharp and Samsung both have plants down there, they are as American made as those Hemi engines. NAFTA.
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| Post 12 made on Friday July 8, 2011 at 12:00 |
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Hey Trunk,
Vizio is not made by LG. There partner company which owns a percentage of vizio is Amtran from Taiwan. Vizio contracts them to make their TVs.
Vizio is a California based business though.
as a side note about the subject, even though the parent companies are overseas for most major tier one TV manufacturers they all have major U.S. based operations and employ hundreds of americans. Would that reasoning help to offer more choices of TVs? With TVs its really tough.
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| Post 13 made on Friday July 8, 2011 at 14:10 |
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Good on him. When I was UAW there were many who "talked the talk" yelling buy American as they made their way into walmart.
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| Post 14 made on Friday July 8, 2011 at 16:22 |
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On July 8, 2011 at 14:10, Fiasco said...
Good on him. When I was UAW there were many who "talked the talk" yelling buy American as they made their way into walmart. Sadly this sounds like most of America...
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| Post 15 made on Friday July 8, 2011 at 16:54 |
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On July 8, 2011 at 12:00, Avparts.com said...
Hey Trunk,
Vizio is not made by LG. They're partner company which owns a percentage of Vizio is Amtran from Taiwan. Vizio contracts them to make their TVs.
Vizio is a California based business though. There's a difference between "made by" and "make their"? Isn't that the same thing? Vizio contracts LG to make their TV's, so the TV's are made by LG...... You seem to be splitting a hair of some sort that I cannot grasp.... Vizio is a California based business though. Not really relevant. The product is NOT a USA made product. A company is based in North Carolina, yet they have product made in China and they resell it. Sorry, it's still Chinese crap.... A company is based in California, yet their product is made in Korea and they resell it. Sorry, it's still Korean crap. Crap is crap. A rose is a rose... .
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