John Forbes wrote:
On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:19:43 -0000, mike wilson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Adam Maas wrote:
mike wilson wrote:
From: Steve Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2005/12/06 Tue PM 02:04:21 GMT
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Sony's at it again.
William Robb wrote:
At least this time, they may have a point.
http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1000&message=16139935
Their reasoning is a big pile of crap. If you want to stop people
from confusing two different kinds of battery, make them a
different shape! They admit what I suspect is the real reason
though - locking their competitors out of the spares market. Or
possibly the existence of spare batteries threatens the "planned
obselescence" of their products...
They have been doing this for years. I don't think I have ever seen
a pattern Sony spare. I can't (easily....) buy genuine ones
because I am not an authorised repairer. My choice is to get all
work done by authorised Sony agents or not buy Sony products.
Anyone care to guess my choice?
m
That's not a Sony thing. It's pretty standard for any electronics
company. Spares only to Authorized Service Centres. I certainly saw
a lot of that in my time as an Electronics Tech.
I can get most spares for most electrical/electronic equipment. Some
of the larger corporations that specialise in electronics are harder
to find but you can often get generic replacements for a lot of the
stuff. Sony - zilch. To the point where I stopped buying the
stuff. If I can't repair it, purely because the maker won't let me,
and there is a reasonable alternative, I'll go for that. With my
buying pattern, I'm sure that has Sony quaking in its boots. 8-)
Looking around, the only thing in the house that is Sony at the
moment is my bedside radio. Over 25 years old and still going strong
- as it should be for what it cost at the time. Looks like that
piece will die when the UK drops analogue broadcasting, some time in
the next five years.
mike
I've got an old Sony world receiver of similar vintage. Perhaps if we
promise Steve Jolly a couple of beers he'll delay the switch-off.
It will cost more than a few beers. The licencing fees that our
illustrious servants are going to accrue from flogging off the analogue
frequencies might keep you and me in a reasonable semblance of a welfare
state. Or, more likely, it will end up in some corporate shareholder's
pocket as part of a ghastly PFI payoff.
I just sold my world radio because I can't get the Beeb in places that I
go. It's all on local digital and the shortwave transmitters are
closing down.
m
