Posted by AZ Nomad on 02/15/06 15:53

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.

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