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Surprisingly, according to an article entitled “Made in the USA” in the March, 2008 edition of Popular Mechanics magazine, you can. It is the mid-priced Olevia
According to the article, the televisions are designed and engineered in City of Industry, CA, and then the components are made separately in Asia and shipped to the West Coast facility where the sets are assembled. Syntax-Brillian claims this allows put together the sets and deliver to U.S. customers faster than its Asian competition. (Note: I am not 100% sure what the FTC rules are regarding labelling products “Made in America”, nor did the article address whether they are labelled as such, but the title of the article was “Made in the USA”, so you can draw your own conclusions.)
While I am not a “Buy American” crusader, as it is almost impossible to ”Buy American” these days in some consumer categories, I was pleasantly surprised to see this article. In these recessionary times, it cannot be a bad thing to regain a lost manufacturing industry, televisions, even if it is only one company with 200 employees. That’s 200 more people than were putting together televisions 5 years ago.
Oddly enough, I bought a 27” Olevia from Circuit City back in September of last year. (My old television was basically showing everything in a shade of either green or red.) I really didn’t want make the purchase at the time, but decided to go ahead and pull the trigger after I found a good deal at Circuit City. I had done some research online, and found that Olevia was rated as a pretty good LCD TV for the price. Thus far, I have been very satisfied with the picture quality and the TV overall, my only complaint is I cannot get my cable remote to work with the TV, but that could be my fault. So if you are looking to buy a budget level LCD TV, and would like to “Buy American”, you may want to check out the Olevia brand of LCD TVs.
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Thanks for publishing this as I’m always looking for more “Made In USA” products to include on my website http://whybuymadeinusa.com/
Electronics are rarely made in America and it would be great if this was the beginning of a new trend.
Dig deeper….they just made a deal with compaq to make em in CHINA!
Thank you for researching this for me, I would have never known where to begin to find a TV made in theUSA.
Again much thanks Tammy.
Looks like Syntax-Brillian maker of Olevia is out of business.
The vintage predicta is being made again in the USA
Vizio’s are made in the U.S.. Also many Toshibas are assembled in the U.S.
how can i find stuff made in the good old usa lcd tvs and more i am so tired of supporting every buddy else.
http://www.MadeByYakees.net continues to catalog made in USA products. We have over 3000 products listed on our database. If you can’t find what you are looking for you can also search the blog, but more importantly, we do the research on anything not yet listed in the database.