Panasonic hands TV business to Chinese Skyworth

[king arthur]

https://www.techspot.com/news/111445-panasonic-exi...

End of an era really. "Japan's last TV maker has effectively become a design partner in a market it once defined".

I have a Panny plasma that is still going strong after 13 years, will a new Chinese made Panasonic OLED achieve the same?

[reggie747]

king Arthur said:

Will a new Chinese made Panasonic OLED achieve the same?

I guess we'll all have to wait and see. By and large, Chinese goods aren't bad. Given they make some cheap $h1te at the lower end of the game but they also make stuff that lasts plenty.

[NaePasaran]

reggie747 said:

I guess we'll all have to wait and see. By and large, Chinese goods aren't bad. Given they make some cheap $h1te at the lower end of the game but they also make stuff that lasts plenty.

This.

Not sure how much Made in Japan/Germany/Italy actually means these days given how quickly the Chinese have caught up, and to be honest probably gone well beyond catching up with regards to manufacturing.

If a new unit doesn't last as long it'll probably be the result of planned obsolescence as opposed to just solely down to the country it was made in.

Also interesting how much of a product is "Made in Japan" (or Germany etc), and if it should be labelled "Assembled in Japan" (or whatever other country) if or when the parts that make up that product have come from half a dozen other countries.

[Rough101]

Give it 10 years and cars will have gone the same way, look at the Chinese only ‘Audi’ as an example.