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End of an Era for UK TV

  • 27-08-2009 7:59am
    #1
    watty
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    Last TV set to made in England 27th August 2009

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8222421.stm

    Did the Trinitron mark the beginning of the end of TV manufacturing in the UK?


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  • #2
    mike65
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    Used to have a Toshiba, many years exellent service.


  • #3
    zilog_jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    watty wrote: »
    Did the Trinitron mark the beginning of the end of TV manufacturing in the UK?

    If it wasn't for Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, Hitachi, et al starting production of sets in the UK in the '70s, UK TV manufacturing would be long gone. I grew up in an era when Alba, Bush, Goodmans, etc. was cheap junk you got from Argos (and mostly built in the Far East too) - the British mainstream consumer electronics industry was as good as dead.

    (This was brought to you by a Welsh-built Trinitron monitor :) )


  • #4
    watty
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    my TVs made in Turkey. One claims to be a Mitsubishi (Philips design) the other near identical design a Silvercrest. Beko used to be owned by Philips (before wwii?) and still uses many Philips designs till recently. All the great Philips chips are now NXP.


  • #5
    zilog_jones
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,638 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    watty wrote: »
    One claims to be a Mitsubishi (Philips design)

    "Mitsubishi" or "Black Diamond"? The latter had very little to do with Mitsubishi Electric who pulled out of the European consumer market some time in the '90s (another Japanese company assembling TVs in the UK), but there may have also been a transition period where they were selling (probably Turkish) OEM stuff under the Mitsubishi brand. Some info/speculation here: http://www.avforums.com/forums/crt-televisions/33655-black-diamond-mitsubishi.html

    We have a Toshiba 32" LCD TV assembled in said plant in Plymouth (I'm sure the LCD panel is made in Korea or China), a Panasonic 14" CRT made in the Czech Republic (ca. 2000), a Hitachi 14" CRT made in the UK (ca. 1993, external design still used on their last CRT CCTV monitors) and a Sony PVM-1442QM video monitor made in Japan (don't know age, probably early '90s).


  • #6
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Is saw a TV set in Tesco the other day (Toshiba IIRC) claiming to have been "assembled in the UK"


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