find out manaufacturing date from Serial nbr?

[Raphie]

Hi, I was wondering if any of you guys know how to find out a manuafacturing date from a 1095 by the serial nbr?

[Andrew Pratt]

I'd email Rotel with the serial number and ask them directly.

[GosonFletchy]

Just curious, but why do you want to know that?

G.

:grab:

[Raphie]

I was wondering how long the 1095 has been wandering around in the channel before i bought it (could have been on the shelves for 6 months with a distributor, or could have been unsold stock from the reseller for another 6 months. I would also like to find out what the different revisions of the 1095 are and whichs MODs (motherboard/component updates etc) cam with each version

[yatra]

You can decipher the Mfr date with the serial number. The serial is 8 digits long. look at the first 2 digits and subtract 5, then look at the third digit and also subtract 5. This will give you the month and year of Mfr.

I know this works for JVC TVs...I am not sure if this is some sort of Industry standard that works across companies/brands?