[opendtv] Re: 20050627 Mark's Monday Memo
- From: "Allen Le Roy Limberg" <allimberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 09:57:10 -0400
Bought 13" Memorex color TV set at Sears for $65 earlier this year. Made
in Thailand, the receiver performs reasonably well. Audio sensitivity could
be better.
Al Limberg
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Willkie" <JohnWillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 4:40 AM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: 20050627 Mark's Monday Memo
> great idea mark, but nothing to be gained, since one can also find dead
dogs
> of the animate kind listed for sale on multiple internet sites as well.
>
> You have to pay people $5 in Tijuana to take one of those 5" inch sets.
> I've seen one in a local video store that has been for sale -- the same
> unit, not merely the same model -- for more than a year. The shop owner
an
> I joke about it. However, the large Wegas 35 and up are flying off the
> shelves. Tijuana. Baja California. Mexico: the third world.
>
> I had chance to visit two Wal-Marts in the last 2 weeks, and I scoured the
> media and electonics department. Saw the $547 Sanyo 16:9 set; $300
premium
> over the NTSC equivalent. Saw $11 CD players. Didn't see a single TV set
> under 20 inches. If these things aren't for sale at Wal-Mart, the only
> lower segment of the market is second-hand shops.
>
> Three weeks ago, I took a lesiurely stroll through the open air Tijuana
> "flea market/swap meet." I can there buy virtually any or every unwired
> remote control ever made for any electonic device. Some, I'm sure, even
> work. I saw new and used tv sets ranging from20 to 37 inches or so. Not
a
> single 5" set. I asked one guy who could manage English where I could
find
> one. He told me maybe a segunda -- second hand store -- but that they
were
> junk. I could get a working set for $20. I looked through the segundas
in
> that area. I could find 10 year old boom boxes, Nakamichi cassette
> recorders, 20-40 inch tv sets. Didn't see a single 5" one or smaller.
>
> I have seen a 5 inch set somewhere in Tijuana in the last year. It was
> smashed up in pieces. Maybe it was smashed up because it didn't work.
>
> Maybe you can see these things listed on the Internet; maybe they are
> popular in your part of the isle of Manhattan. But, the places I've
looked
> in Southern and Northern California, Nevada and Mexico, there is little or
> no interest in these meager receivers.
>
> Perhaps they're popular in China? India? In North America, it seemed
like
> a lark -- a cheap, short, fad. How extensive is the Jeep TV brand? Do
you
> think it's more likely this is a grey market source for TVs that were once
> offered as a spliff for bying a cheap jeep? Kinda funny, when some SUVs
> have DVD players and -- unbelieveable -- color TVs.
>
> Just yesterday, I saw images from an LA TV station on a 2" color set.
It's
> one of the five or four that I've seen since 1989; and I travel via
transit
> (bus, trolley and rail) quite often, and always on the lookout for people
> using portable tvs. It was in the hands of a TV chief engineer. We spent
> more time listening to a single song on satellite radio than we spent
> watching his station on that set.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Schubin" <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 6:59 AM
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: 20050627 Mark's Monday Memo
>
>
> > I recommend that you Google "5-inch TV," and see what comes up. One of
> > the over 300,000 hits is a page listing a dozen Chinese manufacturers of
> > different models of CRT-based TVs. They're sold in department stores,
> > auto supply stores, etc. They cost about $20. One is sold under the
> > Jeep brand.
> >
> > As for the 2-to-3-inch LCD models to which you seem to refer, CEA
> > reported sales to U.S. dealers in 1999, alone, of 832,000 units of LCD
> > TVs. I picked 1999 because CEA doesn't separate LCD TVs by screen size
> > and that year was before significant sales of larger models.
> >
> > TTFN,
> > Mark
> >
> >
> > John Willkie wrote:
> >
> > >hundreds, strewn across the country, with a screen size of 2 inches or
> so.
> > >
> > >John Willkie
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Mark Schubin" <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 5:08 AM
> > >Subject: [opendtv] Re: 20050627 Mark's Monday Memo
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>Indeed. And there are quite a few battery-powered analog TVs.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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