zombie or no, that true.
they also make good desktop machines.
Think of how much of a brand name is marketing - how much of marketing is inseparable from mass media culture - and how generational media culture is. It takes a rare company - usually with deep pockets and room to innovate - to keep things going more than half a century or so, across styles, technologies and trends.
The brands that get downgraded are the “old folks” in consumerism. Except for Coke, Ford, Chevy and a handful of others, an industry leader name in 1940 or 1960 or 1980 will be found on dollar-store stuff now, if the name exists at all. If I buy the name Studebaker, I’m not going to put it on a mid-priced aerodynamic family sedan, it’s going to be a sub-subcompact made in Bangladesh out of jute-based plastic and old cat food cans.
zombie or no, Zenith made one the the best converter boxes for converting digital (ATSC) signals to analog (NTSC) to use an analog tv to display digital signals during the digital tv transition in the USA. i think they might outlive the tv sets they are used on.
zombie or no.
there are Koss headphones which are made in USA by Koss Corporation. They made some good stuff.
there is Koss Electronics (a different company) which make radios and stuff. this makes stuff in china.
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The GOP and Fox have been pushing such talking points for so long, it is likely you could be forgiven for taking them for fact, rather than political rhetoric. While US makers turn out some stinkers, the top models rate comparable quality, and typically sell at significantly lower prices than comparable Japanese vehicles. The Japanese seem to do better at not putting bad models on the market.
UAW compensation is in the ballpark of 130% of non-union labor…total compensation, not just wages. Even at that, it amounts to less than 10% of the cars selling price…so assuming non-union shops didn’t drop thier compensation. Due the resulting lack of competition for skilled labor, you could expect union busting to reduce the cost of making the car by 2-3% of selling price. There is no reason to assume that this would be reflected as a lower price, however, because something has to pay for those executive salaries (that part IS factual). In 2009 the CEO of Ford made approximately the combined compensation of the top 37 Toyota execs, and the other US CEOs were not far behind.
I don’t normally feed the zombies, but what the hell…
Starter used to be a bit of a status-symbol atheltic apparel maker in the 1990s. Having a Starter jacket used to be what it took to be cool. Now, Starter is basically the Wal-Mart house brand for workout clothes.
I hadn’t a clue this was a walking dead thread until I noticed the banned poster. I must sharpen my zombie radar, I wouldn’t last two minutes come the Great Zombie Apocalypse.
I had my suspicions. One giveaway is the sudden appearance of a multipage thread on the front page. Usually you can spot a thread growing on the front page until it reaches multiple pages, but if it just jumps right in with two or more pages, it’s most likely a zombie.
Zombie or no, are we supposed to say “zombie or no” every time we post to a zombie thread now?
Zombie or no, “zombie or no” is the new “braaaaaiiiins”
Hershey’s chocolate has been awful since at least 1996.
zombie or no… Sony is or is going to belong in this thread soon.
I haven’t seen a quality Sony product in a decade. The last product I bought from them was a DVD player, which was such a piece of junk it literally destroyed my DVDs of Alien and Aliens.
I do enjoy their constant PR disasters, however… the Playstation 3 development alone has provided dozens of these over the last few years.
It was the only way to be sure.
Well played. [thumbs up]
I knew Sony was destined for the toilet when their cordless phones started being manufactured by Vtech. They still produce a bunch of great broadcast equipment, but that division should really be sold off to another company before the stink sticks.
As johnpost said, Zenith made an excellent ATSC converter box. When I was head tech for an electronics retailer, Zenith was a well-engineered product, poorly assembled. I installed a Zenith CRT projector, fired it up and a flame shot out the back. Took it down and discovered an Allen wrench set inside, shorting between the flyback and the case. Took it out and it worked. Still have that Allen wrench set.
At the same time, I was volunteering as an engineer at KKFI-FM, a 100,000 watt community radio station. The father of one of the founders was a retired engineer for WGN, and had won an Emmy for his work. He wanted to buy a new TV and came by the store on a quiet night. I put a test signal generator on the feed to all the sets, and we compared every single one. He wound up buying a Zenith.
Packard should be the poster child for this once they decided everyone should be able to afford their cars.
I’m dubios about this claim. When Studebaker and Packard merged, Packard was already dying. Their cars were obsolete , and overpriced. The merger kept the Packard name going, but Studebaker was itself in bad straights by that time.
What was being sold after the merger (as Packards) was just a re-badged Studebaker.
Did you not notice the person you are replying to was banned?
KitchenAid. Unlike the tank-like mixers they used to make, the newer ones have plastic gears and cheaper innards. And the “KitchenAid” appliances are merely rebranded Whirlpool.