Great article Andrew. JVC is indicative of the ailing giants of the electronics industry -
- Creating products that are not just mediocre, but like this one: totally wrong by design, oblivious to the market it is launching into.
- Creating products that ignore new technologies and specifications and instead resort to ridiculous work-arounds like in this case recording to 4 separate SD cards and outputting video over 4 HDMI cables.
- Releasing said products at astronomical prices, regardless of the competition, ignoring the massive advances in low power electronics we have seen in the last five years thanks to the huge market for smart phones and tablets.
JVC are, unsurprisingly, doing rather badly economically. And they have had an accounting scandal as well: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/05/jvc-idUSL3E8C5EOE20120105
The only thing we are missing is a link to organised crime, then we have the full set.