Denny Esterline wrote:
> http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,118196,00.html
>
> Main article focus is apparantly counterfeit electronics are reaching 
> market before the originals - and consumers are mistaking the originals as 
> the knockoffs.

Over the past fifteen or twenty years, the quality of Chinese-made products 
has improved dramatically. A lot of people still associate "Made in China" 
with "Poor Quality", but I find that for many products, that is no longer 
the case. And, they tend to be very inexpensive: when I was in Asia a few 
months back, I bought a "Sony" pocket video player (1.8" LCD, 512M) for $45. 
They're now available on eBay and online in 1Gb versions for the same price:

http://www.campus111.com/1gmp4v10.htm

History is repeating itself -- for a while, Japanese products had a bad 
name. After a while, they realized that "quality is free"...  ;-)

Vitaliy 

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