Sanyo cutting personnel by 50%

[Fast_Eddie]

Lay-offs are the worst. We're going through it in the television business. We've lost several people over the last few years. We're trying to do it one here and one there to avoid a big lay off. It's tough to figure out how to get everything done with fewer people, but there's no choice. There are just fewer people watching local TV, and that means less money, and that means you gotta cut. Just sucks.

[rcaman]

sanyo tv,s i think they are still one of the best sets out there right now. i work on a lot of tv,s and the sanyos are easy to fix and have very few problems. they just last and last. if i were to go and buy a tube table top tv it would be a new sanyo. and i wouldnt have to worry about parts being discontuniued before the end of model run like rca does. rca talk about cheap chinease shit. i sold them for 25 years not anymore. just plain junk.

[Tony V]

Originally Posted by waltchan

Yes, the only Made in USA Sanyo TV right now is the Sanyo 30" CRT HDTV at Wal-Mart for around $450. This will be the last Sanyo TV ever made in USA, so don't delay.

This the set i bought back when this model first came out. I have friends who have LCD's and Plasma's (several are displaying problems already and arent even a year old yet!) and mine beats the pants off of theirs for picture quality. I was happy to hear that this set was made in the USA. I've had several Sanyo's in the past and never had a problem with any of them. Its one of the reasons i went with this model when i was in search of a new tv. I wanted HDTV, multi aux inputs and a crt tv and got everything i wanted in one package and at what i think was a good price. I dont regret it a bit. I'm concidering getting a second one of the same model for a bedroom set before these are all gone.
-Tony

[yrly]

Happened to notice that several of the other Sanyo picture tube sets are also made in the USA when I was out shopping the other day. The 30 inch widescreen one really isn't a bad set not gonna find many other USA built HDTVs so the choice is kinda limited.

Actually though I've seen better picture quality in picture tube sets (though it was on more expensive sets, most of which have been discontinued), these TVs have a surprisingly good feature set for the price. My biggest gripe is that is isn't the clearest picture through the component inputs. It looks fine through the HDMI or over the air HD, but if I was watching strictly SD, or was stuck with an HD service from a cable company where they disable the HDMI/DVI ports (not in this area but I've heard that some areas/companies do do such things), this would not be my choice.

I don't see any reason it should look bad through components but my Samsung 27 inch HD looks far superior, as do my Sony 42 incher (LCD microdisplay), and my iLo 32 inch LCD (not the current one the old monitor version they used to sell, which was made by someone else and despite being more than a year older it looks much better, personally I'd never have bought this if it wasn't dirt cheap). It might be the scalers in them, or other video processing components, but this TV is not the one to watch from component video.

Still if you don't mind the weight (its heavy) or CRT this is a reasonable set. Being USA built is just a bonus, when I first saw these at the price even when they first came out, I thought for sure they'd be from China. I bought it without knowing where it as made and you should have seen how surprised I first was when I saw these were from the USA.