GE is getting back into the TV business

[slow_jazz]

I agree all they will do is slap their name on someone else's product.

Sad I had a 19" GE tv from the late 70's that lasted 20 years... Plus it was a floor model when I purchased it.... Never once had a service call on it...

[freakaftr8]

Oh yeah, that bearded dude with the oxyclean commercials! lol!!

[rcaman]

Originally Posted by jln1966

We all know they wont be made in the US. They would have to pay Americans a living wage and they wouldnt want to do that. GE needs to get out of the appliance buisness also. Their appliances are junk. Whirlpool makes the best appliances now.
John

whirlpool has always made the best. i have had my ass burned on ge junk for the last time and i will never buy a ge appliance again. 3 bad washers 3 bad airconditioners and i think i am missing a couple. not a single problem with all my whirlpool and they see heavy use.

[radiotvnut]

Originally Posted by rcaman

whirlpool has always made the best. i have had my ass burned on ge junk for the last time and i will never buy a ge appliance again. 3 bad washers 3 bad airconditioners and i think i am missing a couple. not a single problem with all my whirlpool and they see heavy use.

We have a Whirlpool side-by-side refrigerator that's 13 years old and still going. Of course, it will probably die tomorrow since I'm bragging about it. I also have a Whirlpool window A/C in the shop. I've only had it a year and no complaints so far. OTOH, my neighbor has a GE window A/C that may be 3 years old and it sounds like it's on it's last leg. They don't call it "Garbage Electric" for nothing. The GE replaced a 40 year old Frigidaire that finally rusted out.

[epifanatic]

No, Please!!!!! one more comercial with Billy Mays screaming at me will surely prompt me to put a bullet through my own T.V.

[classictv80s]

Originally Posted by epifanatic

No, Please!!!!! one more comercial with Billy Mays screaming at me will surely prompt me to put a bullet through my own T.V.

Yes, but you could then drive to your local Wal-Mart and replace that dead TV full of bullet holes with a made in the USA GE set for only 99 bucks. :

[zenith2134]

This house had a 1980's Hotpoint which lasted til 2000. We now have a GE and its been repaired twice. Once the icemaker broke down and the second time the defrost heater went crazy and almost caught fire. (!) This was one of their most expensive fridges back then, too.

And the Range....well we have the matching white GE stove and microwave. It replaced one of those monstrous combo units from the 70s...think it was a Tappan. I recall putting the old units' fluorescent light on every night for years and years. The GE's fluorescent went in 3 years, no shit. I ordered a replacement bulb, but no its actually the 'starter circuit' which fried, now the light just blinks on and off constantly.

Again, this wasn't a cheap range.

[bgadow]

I recall an announcement earlier this year that the GE major appliance business if for sale. I haven't heard anything since-I suspect someone from overseas would buy it, as Whirlpool & Electrolux own so many brands between them that I don't suppose the FTC would allow either to add GE & Hotpoint.

I didn't realize that there WEREN'T GE TV sets on the market right now, but I guess it's right. I guess the agreement with Thomson sunseted a few years back. This will join all the other brand-engineered TV sets like Westinghouse, Motorola (is that venture still going?) and others.

[Blast]

There's NO GE TV's on the market right now??? How long have they been gone? Wow, I didn't even miss them.
Brian