Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfcdj!myers
From: myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: US consumer electronics industry
Message-ID: <17660023@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 29 Sep 89 18:20:58 GMT
References: <1989Sep28.082305.10099@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO
Lines: 17

>Are there any US companies which still make consumer electronics whom I can
>support?  ( I thought that there was at least one still making TV sets;
>was it Magnavox? )  If there are, are the products themselves made in USA
>or assembled overseas?

At least one "Japanese" TV is actually made - tube and all - in the US.
The vast majority - and perhaps all - of the Sony TVs, 19" and larger, sold
in this country are made at the Sony plant in San Diego.  Some parts - but 
very few - come from Japan, but they're mostly U.S. goods built with U.S.
labor.  I think that there are some other Japanese-owned plants in similar
situations.  Or do you insist on U.S. *designs*?



Bob Myers  KC0EW   HP Graphics Tech. Div.|  Opinions expressed here are not
                   Ft. Collins, Colorado |  those of my employer or any other
myers%hpfcla@hplabs.hp.com               |  sentient life-form on this planet.