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Posted by Goro on 02/15/06 18:01
Mercellus Bohren wrote:
> AZ Nomad wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:11:57 -0000, James <jamesspamtrap@mourby.plusspam.com.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > >"Mercellus Bohren" <mercellusb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > >news:1140013760.918230.207040@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> > >>
> > >> Goro wrote:
> > >>> yeah, this is about what you'd expect from Sony these days.
> > >>>
> > >>> -goro-
> > >>>
> > >>> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1926577,00.asp
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> This is starting to chip away at my sony = quality blinders.
> >
> > >There are people who still think that????
> >
> > I think they're the same people who think Bose are great speakers -- people
> > who only know from the marketing hype they read.
> >
> > I've done a bit of repair of consumer electronics going back to the 70's,
> > and it was in the 80's where sony obviously switched to a company philosophy
> > of maximum profits no matter how unreliable their products became. I've
> > seen sony do stuff that would embarass a fly by night asian company.
> > Things like internal connectors that can only be used once; sheets of
> > plastic to keep a circuit board from shorting out against a metal case instead
> > of using three tenth of a penny spacers. Who cares if the plastic wears out
> > and the board shorts out if it'll probably last to the end of the warranty
> > period? sci.electronics.repair is full of sony horror stories.
>
> If I were going to go and buy consumer electronics components today,
> where should I put my dollars?
i would go item by item and do some research before each purchase. It
seems that just about all of the electronics companies put out crap as
well as some good stuff; it's just that just about anythign at BestBuy
is cheap crap.
-goro-
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