[TechAssist] Re: Thomson TEC

  • From: Doug Keller <dek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 07:59:40 -0500

Or they will just absorb and take us over the way they have our 
manufacturing.

Doug Keller
Wis-Kel Electronics
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Terra Alta, WV
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Tel-Tek Electronics wrote:

>I can't understand why someone, wiser then us guys, can not see the
>shifting trend of All electronics being manufactured by the Asians. I
>wonder how much of our defense equipment, including missile tracking,
>satellite technology, CRT and LCD displays in our tanks and fighting
>vehicles, Night Vision technology, etc, depends on parts from China,
>Korea and other Asian countries. How will we get news updates from CNN,
>if we can't get parts for our
>NEC's...Goldstars...Sanyo's...Daewoos...Orions...and now RCA and GE
>TV's. How much of our Electrical grid depends on monitoring systems made
>in China and the likes. If we continue to depend on technology from
>outside North America, we better not "pixx" these countries off. Or we
>will find many things on Backorder in the future.
>
>-Ed-
>
>Ed Gaidies
>Tel-Tek Electronics
>Ontario-Canada
>
>teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of walter wood
>Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 12:49 AM
>To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Thomson TEC
>
>Seems to me that Goldstar was the CRT supplier when
>Zenith was having such a bad time of it with the
>"soft short" taking out all the main boards, and
>the sets being "Not worth fixing".
>That was pretty much all the '90's.
>I never could figure out why Zenith didn't find
>another CRT supplier.
>I guess that was a way to tear zenith down so
>Goldstar could buy them.
>Walter
>--- Tel-Tek Electronics <teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>  
>
>>When they became LG Electronics. 
>>
>>-Ed-
>>
>>Ed Gaidies
>>Tel-Tek Electronics
>>Ontario-Canada
>>
>>teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>>Behalf Of Kevin
>>Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 7:49 PM
>>To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Thomson TEC
>>
>>When did Korea (Goldstar) take over control of
>>Zenith?
>>
>>Kevin Wilks
>>Kevin's TV & Video Repair
>>Penticton BC Canada
>>kevintv@xxxxxxx 
>> 
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>[mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>>Behalf Of
>>repair1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 4:10 PM
>>To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Thomson TEC
>>
>>Actually rca and ge tvs as we knew them have not
>>existed since about
>>1989,
>>the story goes like this, ge bought rca, which
>>owned nbc, banquet foods,
>>burlington mills, hertz  rent a car, hazeltine
>>research, sarnoff labs,
>>and
>>randomhouse publishing, and last but not least
>>their consumer
>>electronics
>>company, this was at the time the largest non oil
>>buyout ever,ge started
>>selling what it did not want(everything except
>>nbc), and then made an
>>offer
>>to thomson of france, to swap their combined
>>consumer electronics
>>company
>>for thomson's medical equipment division, seems
>>as though ge really
>>started
>>thomson, then the french nationalized it, now it
>>appears that the french
>>have decided to take advantage of the "so called
>>global economy" and buy
>>into the chinese producers so they can  sell fine
>>products along with
>>funai
>>and apex etc, pretty sad
>>
>>charles betzler
>>Best Electronics
>>repair1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "LeRoy Westlund" <llw@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 5:36 PM
>>Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Thomson TEC
>>
>>
>>    
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>>>It's all over now,....but the cryin !
>>>We can't get by without RCA/GE sets,...and we
>>>      
>>>
>>don't want China to be
>>    
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>>>involved to anymore degree then they allready
>>>      
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>>are in our Industry.
>>When
>>    
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>>>Korea took over control of Zenith by
>>>      
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>>Goldstar,...that's when Zenith
>>went
>>to
>>    
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>>>the dogs,...and now we will see that happen
>>>      
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>>with RCA (Radio
>>Corporation of
>>    
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>>>America),..what a laugh.
>>>
>>>LLW
>>>
>>>LeRoy Westlund
>>>Westlund TV & Electronics              I've
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>>heard it said:
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>>>93 North Main                             "that
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>>a fool never learns"
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>>>Centerfield, UT 84622-0087     It kinda reminds
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: walter wood <wwood_38478@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>      
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>><techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>    
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>>>Date: Monday, December 15, 2003 2:17 PM
>>>Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Thomson TEC
>>>
>>>
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>>>>But the Chinese have control, and it is
>>>>        
>>>>
>>expected
>>    
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>>>>that they will have full ownership in 6 months
>>>>        
>>>>
>>or
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>>>>so.
>>>>One of Thomson's tech support guys told me
>>>>        
>>>>
>>that he
>>    
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>>>>was going to work at Home Depot, and is
>>>>        
>>>>
>>expecting
>>    
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>>>>everyone to be laid off in that department.
>>>>He said that people were dissappearing around
>>>>        
>>>>
>>there
>>    
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>>>>every day.
>>>>Oh well, rca couldn't get much worse than the
>>>>ATC311.
>>>>Walter
>>>>--- "Phillip R. Hull" <phil245@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>>Its 2/3 s   Owned by a Co. in China.  That
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>is
>>    
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>>>>>what was said at a RCA meeting
>>>>>a couple of weeks ago.
>>>>>Phillip R Hull     STET
>>>>>phil245@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>FAX 517--569-3075
>>>>>Professional Technicians only
>>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>>From: "Tel-Tek Electronics"
>>>>><teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 3:05 PM
>>>>>Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Thomson TEC
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>          
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>>>>>>Some conglomerate from France...me thinks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-Ed-
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Ed Gaidies
>>>>>>Tel-Tek Electronics
>>>>>>Ontario-Canada
>>>>>>
>>>>>>teltek3@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>
>>>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>>>From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>[mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>>>>>>            
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>>On
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>>>>>Behalf Of Keith Trumbla
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>>>Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 1:52 PM
>>>>>>To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>Subject: [TechAssist] Thomson TEC
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Who owns Thomson now ?
>>>>>>Keith Trumbla
>>>>>>BEM Electronics Inc.
>>>>>>Suite 212-530 Century St.
>>>>>>WPG. MB. R3H 0Y4 Canada
>>>>>>Ph.204.775.2875 Fax.204.774.9192
>>>>>>www.bemelectronics.com
>>>>>>
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