Shawn Lin wrote:
> Mike Lastucka wrote:
> >
> > Greetings all. I'm new to the world of minidiscs, and thusly this list, so
> > please bear with any of my ignorance. :)
This e mail is actually very encouraging. It shows that while it may never be
mainstream, the mini disc is still very much alive and well in the US (I'm
assuming that Mike is from the US because he used Hot mail).
>
> Does the choice of minidisc basically boil down to which
> > one do you would find more impressive to pull out of your player in the
> > vicinity of others?
I have also never had a problem with any mini disc that I owned*, even brands
that others on the list (for example Memorex) claimed to have problems with.
> I have, however, heard of cheap MiniDiscs that are not
> manufactured to exacting tolerances and sometimes get jammed in certain
> players (usually recording decks or car stereos with motorized loading
> mechanisms - this probably would not affect you).
*There was ONE disc that I had that jammed in a motorized loading mechanism. Not
some cheap brand, but rather a SONY that I had paid $14 for (yes the discs were
selling for about $16.00 each when they were first introduced in the US and $14
was a bargain!
My personal luck with Sony products has been terrible. There are people on the
list that will tell you that they never had a problem with any Sony product that
they owned. Almost EVERY (and I have bought a lot of Sony equipment) Sony
product that I ever purchased gave me problems.
I almost never got more than a year out of any!
So why do I continue to purchase Sony products? One answer could be simply that
I'm a dumb schmuck :). But if you want a serious answer, Sony comes out with
products and features that you just can't get from other manufactures. Like your
900 for example.
Although you are starting to see a few other brands, Sony was the first TV
manufacture that I am aware of who offered a true flat screen (cathode ray that
is, not LCD), their beautiful Vega series.
Sony's Glasstron "TV glasses" have been consistently rated as having a better
picture than the few competitors that there are.
As far as picture quality goes, Consumer Reports almost always rates Sony mid
priced VCRs as the best. But down on the bottom of the page where they list
reliability (based on polls of their readers), Sony is usually rated as one of
the most unreliable.
One company that is kind of a "sleeper" is Toshiba. Their DVD players, for
example usually get very high ratings. I have no information on reliability
though. I also recently bought a flat screen 20" TV/VCR combo from Toshiba.
It may not be quite as impressive as my 32 inch Vega, but for $299, the Toshiba
has a very, very impressive picture and excellent quality VCR.
Larry
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