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Originally Posted by HarryT
I've got a Sony TV, too. It's a few years old now, but I'm extremely happy with it. I've only owned two TVs in the last 20 years, both Sony. Had a CRT which lasted for about 15 years until the tube finally blew with a "pop" and a puff of smoke, followed by the current LCD which I've had for about 5 years now.
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Both my TVs are Sanyos. One is nearly 30 years ago (bought in the 'mid 80s), the other nearly 20. Heh, both are so old they have coaxial inputs (though also RCA jacks, so I can hook some modern stuff up to them)
By contrast, my experience with Sony products is that they break after a few years. PS1 - cd drive stopped reading discs. PS2 - dvd drive stopped reading discs. PSP-1000 - screen cracked while I was taking the battery out because it froze. PSP-2000 screen cracked when it got too cold (not really Sony's fault, but the power company, though it was the only LCD screen affected). Sony portable DVD player - stopped reading discs (you'd think I would have learned by then about Sony's disc drive quality).
But the problem is, even if Sony were making quality products, like TVs, they really aren't making money off of them. Thanks to corporate bloat and bad exchange rate, they lose money on virtually everything. And that's not going to change. They've just can't compete with smaller, leaner companies, especially if they are based on countries like Korea (or outside of Japan)