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Article #1828Re: Where are the Philips monitors built?
From: Lusty Wench
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 16:38
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 16:38
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In article <1992Aug30.153807.17981@cube.handheld.com> jmd@cube.handheld.com (Jim De Arras) writes: >In article <2039@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes: >> I have seen a lot of complaints about the Philips monitors (mainly before I >> went on vacation 4 weeks ago). But Philips happens to have the head office >> here in The Netherlands, and I happen to know a Philips manager, who was >> shocked by my story that I had seen many complaints about Philips on the net >> and that people were being told to buy Sony. >> >> He volunteered to get the message to the management. So I only need to know >> what complaints there are about the Philips monitors and especially where >they >> are made (Taiwan? Italy?). >> >> Mail me, and I will try to see that the info gets to the right place. >> >> -- >> wierda@ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) || I speak for myself and not for my >employer. >> (+31) 2154 84415/(+31) 35 833539 || Support the League for Programming >Freedom! >> "If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." >> (Almost from) Lewis Carroll, "Alice in Wonderland". > >He can't do anything about it, Philips TV's look just as bad. It's an issue of >phosphers. Sony has the best, the best red in specific. > >Jim Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Here you have a guy in management who is not only open to suggestions but who is even *anxious* to hear specific ways in which they can improve their product, and all you can do is say "forget it, you don't stand a chance". I guess it's more fun to complain about why something is a piece of junk than it is to offer constructive suggestions on how it can be made better. Lusty Wench
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!tamsun.tamu.edu!lusty.tamu.edu!lusty From: lusty@lusty.tamu.edu (Lusty Wench) Subject: Re: Where are the Philips monitors built? Message-ID: <1992Sep5.163800.18684@tamsun.tamu.edu> Sender: news@tamsun.tamu.edu (Read News) Organization: Me References: <2039@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> <1992Aug30.153807.17981@cube.handheld.com> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 16:38:00 GMT Lines: 38