Once great brands ...... now junk.

Oops! · 04-12-2017 07:59PM

SuperS54 wrote: »

Philips, used to be a good brand, moved pretty much everything to China and outsourcing and are peddling tat these days.

Have had a big old box of a Philips tv thats about 15 year old... bout 3 years ago i retired it to under the stairs just in case myself or somebody else was stuck... Seemed a shame to scrap it when it was in perfect working order...

Purchased myself a shiny new 42" Walker tv which after 3 years kicked the bucket and i was then told it was uneconomical to repair....

The "big auld box of a Phillips is now back up on the tv stand till the day that decides it's had enough.

Wanderer78 · 04-12-2017 08:11PM

Oops! wrote: »

Have had a big old box of a Philips tv thats about 15 year old... bout 3 years ago i retired it to under the stairs just in case myself or somebody else was stuck... Seemed a shame to scrap it when it was in perfect working order...

Purchased myself a shiny new 42" Walker tv which after 3 years kicked the bucket and i was then told it was uneconomical to repair....

The "big auld box of a Phillips is now back up on the tv stand till the day that decides it's had enough.

my 18 year old sony crt is coming to the end of its life, havent bothered my arse getting one of those shiny new tv's yet, why bother!

JohnBoy26 · 04-12-2017 11:13PM

Wanderer78 wrote: »

my 18 year old sony crt is coming to the end of its life, havent bothered my arse getting one of those shiny new tv's yet, why bother!

The picture quality on those old sony tvs is excellent, second to none in their day and better in some ways compared to the lcd tvs on sale today.

JohnBoy26 · 04-12-2017 11:16PM

Oops! wrote: »

Have had a big old box of a Philips tv thats about 15 year old... bout 3 years ago i retired it to under the stairs just in case myself or somebody else was stuck... Seemed a shame to scrap it when it was in perfect working order...

Purchased myself a shiny new 42" Walker tv which after 3 years kicked the bucket and i was then told it was uneconomical to repair....

The "big auld box of a Phillips is now back up on the tv stand till the day that decides it's had enough.

Walker is vestel sh1te so that is no surprise but in general crt technology is much more reliable than lcd tvs, especially the later lcds fitted with led backlights.

kev1.3s · 04-12-2017 11:51PM

Jackson guitars. Bought a new one in 96 and a 88 one some years later and felt they were truly special at the time but I'm absolutely dumbfounded at the cheap €200 crap they sell nowadays.

kev1.3s · 04-12-2017 11:53PM

Lancia, grew up drooling over stratos and intergrale's but now they are rebadged sh1t and only sold to the Italian market.

kev1.3s · 04-12-2017 11:53PM

Jackson guitars. Bought a new one in 96 and a 88 one some years later and felt they were truly special at the time but I'm absolutely dumbfounded at the cheap €200 crap they sell nowadays.

Gwynplaine · 04-12-2017 11:58PM

The Walking Dead. First few series were top notch, now it's a steaming pile horse ****.

JohnBoy26 · 05-12-2017 12:29AM

kev1.3s wrote: »

Lancia, grew up drooling over stratos and intergrale's but now they are rebadged sh1t and only sold to the Italian market.

They were always junk though mechanically and in build quality.

leonffrench · 05-12-2017 12:36AM

Wanderer2010 wrote:

Remeber when HomeStead were the biggest brand name in Ireland, now they are reduced to cheap pasta and red lemonade...

kev1.3s wrote:

Jackson guitars. Bought a new one in 96 and a 88 one some years later and felt they were truly special at the time but I'm absolutely dumbfounded at the cheap â‚¬200 crap they sell nowadays.

Had a Japanese pro series dinky from around 2005 and quality was unreal good. Stupidly sold it during tough times. I since bought a 2015 pro series Mexican made and It's 80% as good as the Jap. Still quality guitars

paul71 · 05-12-2017 12:38AM

Datsun

Go on who is old enough

RayM · 05-12-2017 01:04AM

paul71 wrote: »

Datsun

Go on who is old enough

Lots of childhood memories of sitting in the back seat of a Datsun 120Y, staring down at the road through a small hole in the floor.

deco nate · 05-12-2017 01:10AM

flaneur wrote: »

The one that I really notice is Cadbury's. None of their products taste the same anymore and I just don't buy them, which is probably good for my health.

The old foil wrapped Dairy Milk bars and cream eggs and all of those things used to actually taste reasonable quality. Now they just taste like absolute junk.

That's because they use the yank recipe now, feck all coco in the chocolate now. Oh for the good ol days when chocolate was real.

Esel · 05-12-2017 01:44AM

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

The picture quality on those old sony tvs is excellent, second to none in their day and better in some ways compared to the lcd tvs on sale today.

Still have a 32" (wide-screen?) - great picture but a monster! 75kg

GhostyMcGhost · 05-12-2017 01:53AM

deco nate wrote: »

That's because they use the yank recipe now, feck all coco in the chocolate now. Oh for the good ol days when chocolate was real.

Chocolate is definitely still real. Aldi do some really nice bars

When you think of the shit 53g in a dairy milk bar, for a scandalous €1.50 in a good few places....

Same price will get you a nice moser roth 70% double the size (about 125g)

Don’t even get me started on roses

If Mondelez was a movie, it would be Argo

flaneur · 05-12-2017 02:18AM

I think this sums up Mondelez - they thought it was a good idea to launch chocolate flavoured cheese... In France. You might as well just put it in a tube while you’re at it and give the French the absolute caricature of everything that’s wrong with American food products.

They own Cadbury’s, Milka, Toblerone and a load of French biscuit brands like LU as well as the US Oreos cookies and for some reason Philadelphia cheese. Their great idea was randomly mix them all together giving you something like Milka Philadelphia, now with Oreo croutons.

Basically take a load of great iconic food brands and put them into a smoothie machine.

sligojoek · 05-12-2017 02:28AM

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

They were always junk though mechanically and in build quality.

My father used to call them "A FIAT in a party dress".

Anyway , to keep on topic, Tonight a friend Who doesn't have a computer asked me to stick a few tunes on a new mp3 player he got.

BUSH in big letters on the box.

"Produced for BUSH" in tiny writing in the back of the unit.

"Manufactured by ARGOS" in the manual.

And it's a piece of sh1t, into the bargain.

DivingDuck · 05-12-2017 02:30AM

The best way I can describe the difference in old-school Cadbury and the new crap is that old-school chocolate was matte, and the new chocolate is shiny. Visually, you can see a difference.

I remember when you'd break the old bars of dairy milk (and that took work, back in the day!), and the chocolate was so much denser and crumbly and flaky in a way the new stuff just isn't. It's really hard to describe if you don't remember the old kind.

It's not just the cocoa that's missing, it's the milk. You can get chocolate that's not oily and awful in the way new Cadbury is, but it's not as milky as the old Dairy Milks were.

Duff Man Jr. · 05-12-2017 02:33AM

NIMAN wrote: »

I know now that many famous brands have sold their rights to be used by other companies, so you buy a Hitachi, JVC, Sharp TV now at your peril.

Gotta disagree with this, never owned any but I know for a fact a lot of girls (literally) swear by them.

Oops! · 05-12-2017 02:52AM

Duff Man Jr. wrote: »

Gotta disagree with this, never owned any but I know for a fact a lot of girls (literally) swear by them.

Some would say "A girls best friend":)

whisky_galore · 05-12-2017 08:11AM

RayM wrote: »

Lots of childhood memories of sitting in the back seat of a Datsun 120Y, staring down at the road through a small hole in the floor.

Old Datsuns still on the go in Australia, but they didn't have to put up with sh1t weather and salt on the roads.

Gravelly · 05-12-2017 09:37AM

paul71 wrote: »

Datsun

Go on who is old enough

One of the few cars that you could hear rusting

suicide_circus · 05-12-2017 09:52AM

Esel wrote: »

Still have a 32" (wide-screen?) - great picture but a monster! 75kg

:eek:

Ciaran_B · 05-12-2017 10:00AM

Gravelly wrote: »

I've always believed that the destruction of the Irish sugar industry was one of the greatest ever heists perpetrated upon the Irish people, yet it gets little attention. To be part of that speaks, in my opinion, of someone who has no concern for the people of Ireland, and would, literally, sell them out for a song. In the light of recent developments, this bears remembering. When people in high places tell you they are carrying out a particular policy out of care or morality, look at how much care and morality they have shown in past dealings. Leopards and spots.

Genuine question, was sugar from beet the same as sugar cane? Like, could the bags of sucra we used to get have been made from beet?

flaneur · 05-12-2017 10:05AM

whisky_galore wrote: »

Old Datsuns still on the go in Australia, but they didn't have to put up with sh1t weather and salt on the roads.

It's surprising they had that issue, as much if Japan is as wet as here and would also have salt on the roads.

Gravelly · 05-12-2017 10:09AM

Ciaran_B wrote: »

Genuine question, was sugar from beet the same as sugar cane? Like, could the bags of sucra we used to get have been made from beet?

Same thing just a different production method (though some claim it tastes different!). We made sugar from beet but if we had the weather we could grow cane and make it from that.

Nekarsulm · 05-12-2017 10:10AM

Ciaran_B wrote: »

Genuine question, was sugar from beet the same as sugar cane? Like, could the bags of sucra we used to get have been made from beet?

Siucra was always made from beet.

For some reason, I have it in my head that Tate & Lyle was more cane sugar, but I could be wrong on that.

Gravelly · 05-12-2017 10:12AM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Siucra was always made from beet.

For some reason, I have it in my head that Tate & Lyle was more cane sugar, but I could be wrong on that.

You're correct.

Amalgam · 05-12-2017 10:25AM

I bought a 'Toshiba' TV in Power City a year or three back, budget price, 1080P and 3 hdmi sockets hit the right points. Brand is just a front for a generic Turkish TV panel maker.

All brands skimp now.. A Creda Countour cooker that died on us last month after 30 years would bruise your toe stubbing your foot on the corner of it, built like a tank. The new Beko replacement slides a few inches if you do the same thing.

flaneur · 05-12-2017 10:30AM

Amalgam wrote: »

I bought a 'Toshiba' TV in Power City a year or three back, budget price, 1080P and 3 hdmi sockets hit the right points. Brand is just a front for a generic Turkish TV panel maker.

All brands skimp now.. A Creda Countour cooker that died on us last month after 30 years would bruise your toe stubbing your foot on the corner of it, built like a tank. The new Beko replacement slides a few inches if you do the same thing.

It probably cost, in relative terms, the same price as modern Miele and those things are still built like a tank.

We are buying things at a fraction of the cost we used to.

Once great brands ...... now junk.

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