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#29687 01/04/04 08:46 AM
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this.

What do you guys think? Are there really no DVD players made in the US? What about the quality? I'm quite satisfied with my Toshiba SD 1600, so I'm not looking to upgrade, but it's an interesting story, nonetheless.


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#29688 01/04/04 09:02 AM
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i am not too familiar with the working conditions of the big name brands, but my best guess is that they make their workers do the same work for the same wages. But they charge more because the american consumer likes to buy brand names. just an estimated guess, but the markup probably has to do with advertising, brand name recognition costs, and satisfied CEO's who are able to justify higher prices with good sales margins.

question #2-its a sad state of things, but low end electronics are not made in the US, but asia. its been this way for a while. not really surprised about that. it is cheaper to make products in a foreign country and ship it here, then make it here(US).


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#29689 01/04/04 12:14 PM
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I think a lot of high end units are made in Asia as well.


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#29690 01/04/04 04:18 PM
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my wife picked up a few of the apex dvd players for my kids rooms and x-mas gifts-pic looks good on 19"tv-great deal for 30 bucks......also that article said dvd was introduced in march of 1997 when i actually had dvd a couple of weeks before x-mas 1996....ron


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#29691 01/04/04 05:24 PM
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just because something isint made here doesnt mean its junk. They make a product to certain standards, and it gets made to that standard regardless.

i would not buy one of those uber cheap players, you really do get what you pay for.

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#29692 01/04/04 06:44 PM
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Rotel has it's own factory in China. So even the "higher end" electronics companies use inexpensive labor. In Rotel's case, it's their own factory, so it's not an outsourced slave labor type facility, but it's still less expensive to produce the products there, and ship them worldwide.

Working conditions are important. If I knew which brands employeed slave labor tactics, I'd certainly avoid them - even if it cost me a few bucks more.

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#29693 01/05/04 12:20 AM
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DVD did come out in March of 1997. I followed it religiously and was invited by Good Guys to their unvieling party in March. There still was no actual DVDs out at the time, so I waited a week to buy a player when Warner came out with their first batch of titles. Unless you somehow got a DVD player through some off market dealer in 1996, they were not available with any movies to play on them until March 1997. So do not discredit the article with false information.

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#29694 01/05/04 07:33 PM
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ok, so who else read the very first line of the article and started cracking up?

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#29695 01/05/04 07:39 PM
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It's an excellent intro to the article. Certainly intrigues the reader to read on.

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#29696 01/05/04 09:28 PM
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