Thread: Adios, Sony!
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Old 08-03-2008, 12:16 PM   #85
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
I just can't believe it... I just found out that I can't play all my VHS movies on my new DVD player. Panasonic says there is nothing that I can do but buy all my movies on DVD format. This is ludicrous. I think that Panasonic should swap all my movies out from VHS to these new DVD disk things. I'm never going to buy a Panasonic device again.

Ok, I've been screwed again... LG said that I would have to rebuy all my DVD movies in Blu-Ray format in order to get HD pictures from them. They refuse to play my current DVD's as HD and won't swap them out for me for free or at least a nice low price. I am SO done with LG products!!!

I must be the most unlucky person. I just found out that my 2001 Toyota Camry will not be able to run on Ethanol or Biodesel or Electric. This is incredibly short sited. Toyota must have known back in 2001 that the demand for oil would sore which would cause prices to rise on all kinds of petroleum products. The should have designed the ability to use alternative fuels into my Camry when they designed it.

Now, in this thread I find out I can't upgrade my PRS-500 to support these new eBook formats! I'm going to explode.

Why do these companies do these things? They don't care about customers and are just screwing us all to make money. That's all they seem to care about, making money and building shareholder value.

BOb
Bob, this is the type of ridicule I mention in previous posts. You are mixing HW and SW. I am not. I'm speaking of SW upgrades only - not HW upgrades, no shipping, no retooling.

I bet if your DVD player was advertised to play DVD-RW and it only played DVDs that were commercially pressed, you would be upset, especially if that factored strongly in why you purchased it. That is exactly the type of process that Sony did with the 500. They said it would play RTF files but they did not said, "But hey, it will not show TOC or images in the RTF." or "But it is crippled and won't have all the functionality of RTF." That is a SW upgrade that they should make to just get their reader to where they advertised it to be. I AM NOT asking to have it be upgraded to completely different HW.

Now please stop making ridiculous HW comparisons. HW is NOT the issue. I just want them to make the things they advertised work correctly with their SW.
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