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valleyerlast Friday at 1:48 PM3 repliesview on HN

Sceptre is not in fact "a Wal-Mart brand" but rather an independent company.

https://www.sceptre.com

Westinghouse TVs are made by a company licensing the brand, not a "Pittsburgh-headquartered company".

These seem like easy mistakes to avoid.


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Isamulast Saturday at 3:56 AM

Westinghouse was acquired as a brand under Tsinghua TongFang.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electronics

csdreamer7last Friday at 1:52 PM

This is really poor research on their part.

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bityardlast Friday at 2:00 PM

And Emerson has for a LONG time been just an American brand on the cheapest Chinese electronics your money can buy.

The whole article is pretty terrible.

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