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i recently purchased a dirt-cheap 43" (42.5", actually) $250 4K TV and it is "Onn" brand. for what i paid, i honestly was not expecting much. it is fine, ok. no problems so far. if it dies in two years, well, i still got my nickel's worth. yesterday, i bought some USB sticks from the same place (walmart) and they were also Onn brand (as opposed to Offf brand?). i got curious, today: what is this company? chinese? it turns out, an answer is hard to come by. Onn apparently used to be sold by British chain ASDA and manufactured by Schneider Electric, a german company... but ASDA went out of business and I also see answers involving "Corion USA" (no wikipedia entry) and subcontracting out to unnamed chinese shops. Wikipedia -- the first place I looked -- has no entry for Onn. Maybe, if I can figure it out, I can make my first new wikipedia fing. I figure I should dig out the manual and see if they even have a web site |
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the manuals do not list a web site. that blows my mind; TVs and USB sticks for sale and you don't even have a web site. heck, i can't even find a physical address. the most i found was this, at the end of the warranty slip: PLEASE DIRECT ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO: Element TV Company, LP Customer Serivce (844) 334-2355 ...which is the same as their tech support number. guess correspondence goes to a phone menu? then? this is properly intriguing. i get the sense they really do not want to be identified |
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element has a basic web site i'm simply curious how this thing came to exist. it's fascinating to me like |
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if it's any assistance asda didn't go out of bizness, that's where the guy was hassling me about my tobacco purchase! owned by walmart but they kept the name. there are off brand (but not necessarily offf brand) consumer electronics for sale in their bigger stores, yeah. maybe do a little digging on the walmart connection, but i would guess they're some sweatshoppy company that flies below the radar |
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this seems like a talented band of pirates, this H5. i'll put them in my rolodex for "when i have six figures to spend on a music video." yeah, that folder will be relevant any time now |
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i feel like it's almost a blog-article sorta potential. start ringing phones; go gumshoe to determine how da fuk this tv came to exist. my tv: an extremely organized pattern of molecules from unfathomable sources. sorcery |
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i hope this research leads you to some mysterious alien company i can imagine you in the library alone in the middle of the night knee deep in books and coffee |
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it is raining outside a lightning strikes as you frantically turn the pages of a book a phone rings the librarian picks it up and holds it to her ear “give me epicmegatrax.” |
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sounds like an episode of black mirror, you have a CIA brand tv to monitor your activities |
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or videodrome, perhaps you will tune into a tv station that broadcasts extreme sexual violence and you will grow a psychic tumour |
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“i know what you are up to epicmegatrax. stop before it’s too late.” *click and dial tone* |
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ohhh, if life were only that cool/interesting. sort of like Christianity, there are moments I wish I could believe in such fings, because it would make life more fun and exciting than the dreary crapshow that is reality. no, what I will find, I figure, is a strangely organic result from numerous international business concerns and supply chain logistics. While I find this thing fascinating, I doubt the resulting blog entry will have the draw of an actual conspiracy. |
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you might find a printed help me message on the circuit board from a Foxconn plant, that's the most likely |
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maybe if i worked for motherboard.tv i'd have the budget to destroy a $250 tv by taking it apart |
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dont like the way they enjoy reviewing it as crap. truly biased by the price. i mean who the fuck judges the packing material like that? but then i probably would have done it the exact same way... imagine they were told the price was like 2000 and would praise it for its lightweight instead. great computer voice btw |
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