Hmm. - My Sony Walkman AM/FM Pocket Radio, purchased in 1985, is still working perfectly. As is my Sony Walkman CD Player, purchased in 1991. - My Sony Trinitron 19" television set, purchased in 1989, had the power supply fail in 2003. It was easily repairable, but not economical to do so. I held off buying a replacement until 2005, which was a Sony Bravia flat panel television set. It's still working perfectly … - My Sony DSC-F707, purchased new in 2002, I gave to a friend in New York in 2004. He's still using it. - My Sony ruggedized digital camera (2Mpixel thing, can't remember the model) is still being used by my partner. In 2009, Sony replaced its sensor and completely overhauled it for free.
I have nothing against Sony products. They've generally worked very well for me. When they have something that suits my need or fancy, I have no problem buying what they offer. I cannot see the point of all the brand bashing. Godfrey On Aug 1, 2014, at 3:04 PM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > My father had a wonderfully compact, for the time, and beautifully finished > Sony pocket AM/FM radio manufactured in the late 1960'a that would not look > out of place next to an iPhone, IIRC it was sold as a 1, (ONE?), transistor > unit. It had the best reception of any radio in the house, and retained that > title for at least 20 years. Those kinds of products started SONY's > reputation which was only burnished by the introduction of the original > Walkman, followed by the Trinatron CRT Televisions and Computer monitors. > Unfortunately SONY, as well as HP and a lot of other fine manufactures from > the US, Japan, and Europe all hired Harvard MBA graduates. The rest is > history, and in most ways, so are they. > > On 8/1/2014 3:06 PM, John wrote: >> I find myself mostly in agreement with your assessment of Sony, except for >> the part about "used to make wonderful quality equipment". I never had a >> Sony consumer electronics product that worked for even one day past the end >> of the manufacturer's warranty. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
