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poll: tackiest brand names/worst brands TV/VCR/stereo etc?

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jakdedert

Jan 1, 1970
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b said:
Fair comment. For example the name Sonitron: Opening up such a VCR (in
the 80s), I discovered it was a Sanyo (Fisher) clone. (in those days
Sanyo still made some respectable low to mid-price goods). However,
you can't deny that the name sounds tacky, (almost trying to evoke
Sony) and as such deserves a place on the list!
Ben
OTOH, some of the more respected brands have names which would look/sound
just as tacky if not for their reputation...like Awai (took years before I
ever found out how to pronounce that one), Akai, JVC, LG, Sanyo...actually
almost any of the oriental brands.

jak
 
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jakdedert

Jan 1, 1970
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David said:
By far the worst name would have to have been: Broksonic, pronounced
Broke-Sonic. Would be kind of like naming a car No-Go.

David

There's an auto repair chain here in Nashville called 'Budget Brakes.'
Inspires confidence, huh?

jak
 
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USER

Jan 1, 1970
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My cousin's Audi 5000 in Hungary had a cassette player with the name
"PIEONEAR" No lie. I wish I had taken a picture. The deck was so cheesy
enough to claim it had 150 watts by 2 channels. The car and deck are
long since gone.
 
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RonKZ650

Jan 1, 1970
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My cousin's Audi 5000 in Hungary had a cassette player with the name
"PIEONEAR" No lie. I wish I had taken a picture. The deck was so cheesy
enough to claim it had 150 watts by 2 channels. The car and deck are
long since gone.

Audi is one of the worst. Why they sell is beyond my comprehension. For 1/3 the
price you can get a 7000 lb 1 ton Ford truck that will last 300,000 miles. Oh
we're talking stereos here, never mind.
 
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Laurence Taylor

Jan 1, 1970
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jakdedert said:
There's an auto repair chain here in Nashville called 'Budget Brakes.'
Inspires confidence, huh?

jak


I remember seeing cheap portable radios and the like on market stalls,
with a brand name of "Cheiza". Presumably it meant something sensible
in Chinese, but in English it sounded very like "scheisse", which is
German for merde.


--

rgds
LAurence

....That is Torquay. What did you want, the Taj Mahal?
 
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b

Jan 1, 1970
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some of the more respected brands have names which would look/sound
just as tacky if not for their reputation...like Awai (took years before I
ever found out how to pronounce that one), Akai, JVC, LG, Sanyo...actually
almost any of the oriental brands.

I know what you mean. Often the name can sound cheesy yet the
equipment is good. For that reason I tried to include brands which A)
sound tacky but, more importantly B) I know produced junk, whether of
low quality or poor design....from having personally had first hand
experience of trying to repair it. To illustrate some of the worst
cases, there are some pics on the website at:

www.hometown.aol.com/worldoftack

regards, Ben
 
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Art

Jan 1, 1970
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Samtron, Brocksonic, Zenith, ?? All about the same overall quality??
 
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William R. Walsh

Jan 1, 1970
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Hi!
BTW, check the mode switch. Other problems to look out for: capstan motor and
idler assembly causing a slow rewind condition with some cassettes.

Haven't seen any capstan motor problems...well, at least no hard failures.
It did eat a tape *once* but when a VCR has been around this long you can't
really blame it for having done so. It's never done that again and I don't
know that the capstan was to blame. I found the tape stuck on a large rubber
pinch roller.

The idler assembly--been there, done that. It got so bad that the machine
couldn't rewind. At first I didn't worry much about it because there is
another VCR right on top (have you guessed that this is used for tape
duplication at times? Every now and again I need to copy a home-made video
or something like that...) that I just rewound the tapes with afterwards. I
decided later that it should be properly fixed and I did. It was one of my
first successful VCR repairs.
As for low audio level for recording, that was also a problem with a linear
stereo Sears machine, OEMed by GoldStar, that I have which is collecting
dust.

What's really, really, really strange about this problem is that both tapes
recorded on it AND prerecorded tapes play just fine on it with no discerible
difference in audio level. Tapes made in other units also work fine. I can't
quite fathom what the problem is, but I'm not losing sleep over it as this
is usually the playback deck anyway.

This isn't a stereo machine either...at least not that I know of.
Also true. You can tote a ToteVision anywhere, heheh.

Cute. I wonder if they've ever marketed anything that way? :)

I must say however, that this VCR has some weight to it. Even as basic and
no doubt cheap as it is, it would still flatten one of today's all-plastic
machines if you were to drop it on the new unit.
BTW, I am sure a lot of people remember Bell & Howell. My how they have
fallen, from making some high quality film projectors all the way down to
making cheap and crappy electric shavers advertised on infomercials. -
Reinhart

I can't imagine what must have gone wrong there. The last I had heard from
Bell and Howell was that they had sold off their film scanner business to
Kodak. I don't know what they do now, but I do know that they like licensing
their name out for others to use.

William
 
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El Meda

Jan 1, 1970
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"BS Audio" (Short for "Backstage") - Mexican pro audio brand.
 
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Chaos Master

Jan 1, 1970
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Hey El Meda ([email protected])! You wrote in message
<[email protected]>, at group sci.electronics.repair,
"BS Audio" (Short for "Backstage") - Mexican pro audio brand.

Another one I remember now:

"CCE" - Brazilian electronics/appliances (TV, audio, microwave oven, car audio)
brand. (at least, service info/parts for this brand' devices is not hard to
find).

[]s
 
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RonKZ650

Jan 1, 1970
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I real winner was Nivico. Back in about 1980 selling used TVs we had one up for
grabs, Took a customer into the display area to find the Nivico on fire. The
plastic cabinet had caught fire from a burning flyback. Didn't sell that one,
that day.
 
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BWL

Jan 1, 1970
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Most ridiculous name I ever saw on anything was "Broksonic"; gotta wonder what
they were thinking about....
 
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geo73

Jan 1, 1970
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brok, hm sounds exactly the way the set powers up and degauss :)
 
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