wrote:

I work in the TV elctronics universe, and I had a Sony sales rep tell
me that you are always better off buying a Japanese named product
because their NIST
required certain minimum standards. And I have seen the same VHS VCR
with a Panasonic name tag and RCA and GE that looked the same.
However the inside was very different. The USA versions had fewer parts
and
did not have anywhere near the signal to noise in the video playback.
I think the name of the organizaton was JIS.
Terry

The "RCA" and "GE" names are owned by Thomson, a French owned company,
and those VCRs were probably made in China. If the Panasonic was made in
Japan, and we're talking about VCRs that were on the market five years
ago, then the Japanese product wins every time. But Japan is so
expensive and bureaucratic to work in that all the big Japanese names
are shifting their manufacturing to China. Some well placed bribes to
CCP flunkies and you're in business, no worrisome environmental or labor
regulations, pay your workers 10 cents a day and dump toxic waste into
drinking water. It's a capitalist's wet dream, which is why everything
is now made in China. If you look back over the history of capitalism,
you'll see that the ruling class did the same thing to Europe and then
the US, with the difference being that the whites fought back, at least
for a while.


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