Vizio Tells Owners Their Sets Are Un-repairable

[Feanor]

So you're using one example to paint a broad brush about any product made in China? Sony also outsources the PS3 to Foxconn plants in China, which build the console in parallel to the units built by Sony-owned facilities in Japan. I have not seen any data indicating that the failure rate for the Chinese-made units has been any different than the ones made in Japan.

And if you're going to use Apex and Sony receivers as the bludgeon to generalize about Chinese made products, what about Apple? Apple products consistently have the highest reliability record in the industry, and all of them are built in China.
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The quality level from China depends precisely on what their customers demand -- if it's high quality for Apple or Sony, then that's what they deliver.

On the other hand if the customer wants really low cost, that's what he gets. Really low cost compromises quality even in low-wage China. A big problem is that customer expectations remain low for Chinese products -- sort of a vicious circle: it's too easy to deliver compromised quality if that's all people expect..

OK, some Chinese manufactures have an ethics problem, i.e. compromise quality more than necessary to satisfy greed for profit, but that is scarcely unique to the Chinese.