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Posted by Justin on 02/15/06 18:43
Goro wrote on [15 Feb 2006 10:01:39 -0800]:
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> 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?
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> 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.
An wally world has crap even best buy rejects.
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