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My understanding was that Magnavox sold its consumer electronics division to Philips in '75; the old company remained for awhile doing industrial/military work. I think they are gone now. Magnavox was a long time resident of Fort Wayne.
GTE owned Sylvania & Philco, based in Batavia (NY?). In 1980 or 81 they sold Philips the Philco name (for north American use anyway, lots of people seem to have a claim to it worldwide) and they licensed the Sylvania name to Philips. Sometime around then manufacturing was moved to Tennessee.
I have heard that the Philips sets could not compare as far as audio goes as they really cheaped out on the components. Magnavox became just another TV set.
I have a 1991 Sylvania Superset (19") built in TN; lots of hours on it. Aside from a repair when it was new it has had no problems.
The old Magnavox company imported smaller sets from Asia. I have a 12" bw that is pre-Philips and is from Japan or Taiwan, I forget which. It is tube type. I also have a 19" (metric) color crt, used, from an early 70s Magnavox and it was made in Japan. In the seventies the only company building a more or less full line of TV sets in America may have been GE. (eventually they imported the 12" sets, too)
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Bryan
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