As I look at all these posts

there are many manufacturers of other components as well.

i doubt there is a practical way to enumerate the number of companies producing each product type.

thus there is no way to easily determine which component has the most manufcturers.

Buconero....'it is all about profit.'.....what privately owned business isn't about
'profit'..sure there are a lot of cable makers. there are also many car
companies...many clothing manufacturers...many pizza parlors..many dog food
companies...all of them doing what they do for one reason..trying to make a
profit.Elizabeth..'easy to make cheaply, easy to sell for a big profit.'..if it's so
easy why don't you start your own cable company.?..talk is cheap..starting your
own company, whatever it is, takes a lot of thought, hard work, sacrifice,
willingness to fail,which most people aren't willing to do, and usually, the
willingness to borrow a great deal of money.there are a lot of 'arm chair
quarterbacks ' in the world.

Wow how interesting .

The more companies and claims (true or false) there are, the more seeds of doubt there are regarding our present components and their abilities, etc. etc.