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To You, Sony

Dear Sony,

By the time you read this, I’ll be gone. I’m sorry for doing this, but I feel our relationship has run the course. I realize this might come as a bit of a surprise to you, but I need some freedom. I’m going to gather together all the pieces around the house with your name on them and put them into a pile. This includes:

  1. The 36 inch television with a flickering display.
  2. The two dead ‘MP3’ players.
  3. The phone that requires a hard reset every two days.
  4. The Playstation that requires a manual calibration every week (not an uncommon problem).  

I could keep going, but I’m sure this is hurting me more than it is hurting you.

P.S. The software you bundle with your MP3 players is an atrocity.

Print | posted @ Thursday, December 16, 2004 6:22 AM

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Gravatar # re: To You, Sony
by AngryMan at 12/16/2004 1:28 PM
I bought a bloody so-called &quot;NetMD&quot; minidisc player instead of a flash memory player, about three years ago.
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<br>The software tried to re-implement MORE DRM on my system, RE-ENCODE all my music to (grrr) ATRAC3, and generally be a crashy pain in the ass.
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<br>I swore no more sony. no more.
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<br>I feel your pain.
  
Gravatar # re: To You, Sony
by Raymond Lewallen at 12/16/2004 7:05 PM
For you home entertainment, Toshiba for video and Pioneer for audio with Klipsch speakers, in my opinion. Xbox or PC for gaming, and get an iPod. I use a phone manufactured by one of the baby Bell companies. Used to have a sony phone, and it cost about $150 and worked for about 2 months.
  
Gravatar # re: To You, Sony
by richard at 12/16/2004 11:57 PM
While I liked my NetMD's functionality as soon as it was loaded with music, the software it was bundled with for music transfer is a sin against nature. I mean, I couldn't really fault that much play time off of a single AA battery...
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Gravatar # re: To You, Sony
by Scott Allen at 12/17/2004 7:00 AM
The battery life was good, but that software, oh the software! Painful, very painful. I'm sticking with an SD card on a Pocket PC for a little bit.
  
Gravatar # re: To You, Sony
by Nick at 1/6/2005 8:07 PM
Gotta say though my sony discmans lasted very well despite terrible treatment.
  
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