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Posted by <aborgman on 02/15/06 19:13
In rec.sport.football.college Mercellus Bohren <mercellusb@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> AZ Nomad wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:11:57 -0000, James <jamesspamtrap@mourby.plusspam.com.invalid> wrote:
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>> >"Mercellus Bohren" <mercellusb@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> >news:1140013760.918230.207040@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
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>> >> 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
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>> >> This is starting to chip away at my sony = quality blinders.
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>> >There are people who still think that????
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>> I think they're the same people who think Bose are great speakers -- people
>> who only know from the marketing hype they read.
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>> 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.
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> If I were going to go and buy consumer electronics components today,
> where should I put my dollars?
If you don't want junk? Nowhere.
--
Aaron
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