50-70 year consumer electronics reliability average curve since 1960...

[AiboPet]

I didn't know Quasar was also Matsushita (Panasonic). I do know all the little Panasonic Micros I have are REAL reliable as long as they haven't been tossed around too much. That little 9" B/W Quasar I rescued has a phenomenal picture for being such a pedestrian looking set.

I do have issue with Toshiba.....but it's a very ODD issue. EVERY single Toshiba laptop computer I have EVER owned.....is still alive and kicking. Having a laptop computer not die is a strange phenomenon. You will STILL "outgrow" the computer and replace it, but you end up with a HOUSEFULL of computers you can't really give to anyone!

My very first laptop was a 720-CDT running Win95. It still lives
Toshiba "Libretto" computers (I really love TINY)...all still live (FOUR of them)
Toshiba Satellite P105 from like five years ago...still alive (from when Vista came out)

THIS laptop....A QOSMIO! Just got it three months ago, because I "outgrew" the Satellite.

So, I still own and play with every Toshiba laptop I have owned since like 1995!

I've had HP laptops come and go, Compaq, Dell (YUCK!) and COUNTLESS printers of one kind or another, but have never had a Toshiba fail me. I do also hafta give a shoutout to a Fujitsu "N-series" laptop that still lives for around ten years now as well.

I'm not sure I have ever owned a Toshiba TV set though. I guess I still would if I had ever gotten one :-P