I was watching a BBC newscast this morning, and there was a story about TV sets sold as a result of the World Cup.

In the story, they kept refering to LG-Phillips. I didn't know these two were together? So that makes LG-Phillips-Zenith-Magnavox?

It would seem that Lucky Goldstar is some kind of Borg-creature moving about the world, assimulating old, dead brand names. How many actual TV companies are left? I can think of:

LG-Phillips-Zenith-Magnavox
Thompson-RCA-GE
Samsung
Sony

...And whoever makes that Orion/Funai crap branded as Sylvania/Admiral/Crosley/Whatever.

There are still a few Japanese companies that still seem to be around:

Toshiba
Sharp
Sanyo?

Then there are a few companies out there in Korea or China making all those generic plasma and LCD TVs you see in Costco.

LG and Philips have a joint venture in LCD, plasma and CRT manufacturing. I don't know if they are joining forces for anything else yet. IT hey haven't merged unless it's very recent.