Dickhertz, have you ever looked inside a TV or computer, if so, I'll bet you were surprised at all the different companies and places that supplied parts for it.
I believe confidentiallity agreements prevent CTKH from saying many of the companies they provide materials to. Equally important, what we provide has no label, it's inside something that may be provided by someone else. You really will never know if you have a computer, TV, cell phone, camera, etc. that has media provided by CTKH, or anyone else for that matter.
DisplayTek could be a different matter. I don't know if DisplayTek will ever fully fabricate a device for sale to the general public, but if what they do provide develops an excellent reputation, manufacturers and distributors will want to say they use DisplayTek flat panels, etc.
I certainly hope that in the future we'll learn at least some of the key corporations we supply, but even that may not tell us where our media are used. I doubt if Sony purchases media for their flat panel displays, they probably buy the entire assembled flat panel from dozens of suppliers, mostly names we'd never recognize. Some of those suppliers probably buy their media from CTKH. I don't know this to be the case, but when I visited Japan some years ago I was told that's how they do business. It was also explained to me why Japanese products were more expensive in Japan then in the US because of the number of hands they passed through.
I don't know the odds of most of us having something made by CTKH in their possession, but I suspect it may not be as high as you'd think.
Gary
