Originally Posted By: Johnny2Bad
Originally Posted By: yesthatsteve
Insignia is re-branded from another manufacturer to Best Buy's specifications. Five or six years ago, I bought an Insignia plasma TV for the kids to game on - the PC's video card recognized the TV as a Samsung.
As always, YMMV.
Aside from "Store Brands" (Insignia, etc) there are also name brand TV models that are built the same way (Samsung, LG, etc).
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Exactly, many people do not realize, most TVs in the lower prices ranges especially, are contracted out and built for companies like LG, Samsung, Sony etc.
Samsung, Sony, LG etc do not make all their own lower priced TVs, their has been a significant shift to using contractors to build them.
Its all about maintaining profits and market share in this low margin price range and being in the low price tiers for these companies keeps their name in the market place.
So far, these companies still make their own TVs in their own factories on their higher end models. In the last few years, they have shifted significant production of their lower priced TVs to 3 party builders, so some of these no name brand TVs are actually made by HUGE 3 party Chinese owned TV manufacturers. I do agree though, it might be more comforting seeing a name brand slapped on the TV because that factory has to answer to the name brand but its no guarantee anymore.
(BTW, well said on the second part of your post that I didnt quote)
and to dishdude, MANY years ago I bought a large Sony TV, actually was my first, expensive, and only Sony TV I ever bought, every TV I owned lived a long life but the Sony, "color board" or blue driver or whatever, would burn out every 3 years, had it replaced once at 3 years old for over $400 then almost 3 years later it burned out again and I threw the thing away.
This was in the day of the old rear projection TVs.