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From: Grant on 25 Jul 2010 22:04
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:24:19 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>On a sunny day (Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:41:55 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Nunya
><jack_shephard(a)cox.net> wrote in
><8e349105-155e-4105-a388-8352f2e15fce(a)a4g2000prm.googlegroups.com>:
>
>> At the consumer level, Sony is a fine example of just how
>>disconnected a company can get with their customers.
>
>Sony is a very strange company.
>My experiences with Sony are ... many... and differ.
>Once they tried to buy me away from the company I worked :-)
>I declined, good decision in retrospect.
>
>They are technologically very good, or can be, still make the strangest mistakes.
>They cut corners in the strangest places.
>The first time that really showed was when they sold trinitron PAL TVs, and,
>to not have to pay the PAL license fees, they used a modified NTSC decoder.
>So the sets had a color hue control, like a NTSC set at that time,
>something PAL had made obsolete.
>Many were sold.
>In fact trinitron was an inferior color CRT too, but it was brighter,

And, once you notice the two horizontal lines on a Trinitron
monitor, the screen is never the same again, distracting.

Grant.
From: JosephKK on 30 Jul 2010 00:47
On Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:24:19 GMT, Jan Panteltje
<pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>On a sunny day (Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:41:55 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Nunya
><jack_shephard(a)cox.net> wrote in
><8e349105-155e-4105-a388-8352f2e15fce(a)a4g2000prm.googlegroups.com>:
>
>> At the consumer level, Sony is a fine example of just how
>>disconnected a company can get with their customers.
>
>Sony is a very strange company.
>My experiences with Sony are ... many... and differ.
>Once they tried to buy me away from the company I worked :-)
>I declined, good decision in retrospect.
>
>They are technologically very good, or can be, still make the strangest mistakes.
>They cut corners in the strangest places.
>The first time that really showed was when they sold trinitron PAL TVs, and,
>to not have to pay the PAL license fees, they used a modified NTSC decoder.
>So the sets had a color hue control, like a NTSC set at that time,
>something PAL had made obsolete.
>Many were sold.
>In fact trinitron was an inferior color CRT too, but it was brighter,
>so they pushed that, and lots of people bought it.
>I had many Sony products, and most just stopped working rather soon.
>I do have a Sony alarm clock radio that still runs fine...
>When they announced the PS3 I wanted to buy one because it was supposed to have 2 HDMI slots, and run Linux.
>When it finally appeared on the marked it had only one HDMI slot and the Linux had no access to the graphics,
>so I did not buy that.
>Then somebody hacked the supervisor in it some time ago, and they came with a firmware
>upgrade that disabled Linus altogether,.
>Nice for people who just bought it for that.
>So, they *can* make great stuff, professional video stuff too, but
>they screw up in a bad way indeed on some details sometimes.
>Before you buy something from them, read some customer experiences for that product, plenty on the internet these days,
>And that goes for any manufacturer of course.

And never forget to keep your salt lick handy when reading internet
reviews.
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