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With the downfall of VHS invetable (DVD players outnumbering VHS counterparts and all), I imagine now is the time to unload the property... while it's still viable.

-Pie]]>Dec 23rd 2006 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/Dec 23rd 2006 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/
Panasonic probably just released any products they knew where crap under the JVC name in order to not tarnish the Panasonic name (Not hating on Panasonic though, probably one of the best electronic companies, JVC on the other hand...)]]>Dec 23rd 2006 10:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/I own a set of JVC surround sound speakers with a sub woofer and... Wait, bad example.

Oh, yeah! When I was shopping for a new receiver a few months ago. I ran across a couple of JVC receivers and... um, wait that wasn't good either.

Um, what were we talking about again. Oh yeah. The Wii is a great console isn't it?]]>Dec 23rd 2006 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/
I was young, didn't have a lot of money, and didn't know what I was doing. Honest.]]>Dec 23rd 2006 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/Dec 24th 2006 3:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/Dec 25th 2006 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/
Thats Too Bad.....



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Get some really good speakers instead, like Klipsch, B&W, Paradigm, even Infinitys.]]>Dec 24th 2006 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/http://www.engadget.com/2006/12/23/matsushita-to-sell-jvc-to-kenwood/
JVC has really done a good job even being as small of a company as they are.

Besides inventing VHS, JVC hold patents in MiniDV Camcorders, MPEG technology, DVD, and Hard Drive Camcorders. JVC was the first company to make LCOS work for TV and now Sony uses the same technology for SXRD...before JVC succeeded with LCOS, Sony was using crappy LCD for their PTV's.

Didn't I just read that Sony had to recall like millions of Laptop batteries....? Samsung is being sued for price fixing by the United States, and recently lost a $300 million dollar law suit for Price Fixing Memory chips.

JVC TV’s on the other hand, consistently get high marks from Consumer reports for both picture quality performance and low rate of repair.

Too bad JVC doesn’t not have $80 million to dump into advertising like Samsung and Sony...then people would think differently. JVC is an honorable company that deserves a better fate.
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Not so quick there on the LCOS theory buddy. Sony's SXRD was shown to the press (as a working product) well before LCOS, which incidentally started life in the Netherlands under the Philips brand before being shifted to JVC once initial development had been completed. ;-) Geeky, but true!

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My understanding is that JVC developed the technology with Hughes Aircraft for Flight Simulators in the late 90's. ILA Technology (basically analog system)

Eventually JVC bought out Hughes and began to find a way to use this (ILA Technology) with a digital signal, the best solution was with an LCOS chip, but at the time they yield was terrible making the chips and the sets unaffordable.

Many companies tried and failed with LCOS - Phillips, Intel, Toshiba, and RCA. JVC kept plying with it and in April of 2004 JVC introduced to the masses an affordable LCOS variant called HDILA. By Sept 2004 Sony introduced a 70” SXRD called it QUALIA. Retail was $13,000.

Sony did not enter the market with an affordable LCOS PTV until Aug of 2005…over a year after JVC…probably about the time it took to reverse engineer it.
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I personally respect JVC as one of the world's most significant 'inventors'.

JVC will likely be better off without its competitor being a majority shareholder. In-fact better without any majority repressing them.




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