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- From: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
- Subject: Bad SONY's and bad TV purchases
- Message-ID: <C1KttF.Ct0@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 18:24:51 GMT
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- Claude whiting (whiting@europa.eng.gtefsd.com) comments that he has a
- SONY TV, 15 years old, that works great, so why is everyone griping
- about SONY? My family has two SONY's, each about 20 years old, bought
- from the most reputable dealer in town. In their time they were the
- best sets available. Both of the local dealers have stopped carrying
- SONY because, "They used to be great, but the workmanship now is
- shoddy".
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- Some people have complained that
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- "I won't buy a TV unless they let me unbox it and try it out
- on the floor before taking it home."
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- I think this is a something-for-nothing attitude. I bought my TV from
- a local appliance dealer, not a mass-market high-volume discount store
- with grease-monkeys running their repair department (if at all). I
- bought the last model, which happened to be on the floor (a Zenith),
- and there was a lot of overscan. So I asked them to fix it before I
- took it home and they did, free of charge. Now my TV has less
- overscan than any TV I've ever seen in any discount store.
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- I think it's a false economy to purchase complicated and expensive
- piece of equipment mail order, or from a discounter, especially a TV.
- Every television looks different, even from the same manufacturer, the
- same production run, and in the same store. If you buy it from a
- reputable local dealer he can work wonders and adjust it to your
- satisfaction. If you go to a reputable local dealer and ask him, "Can
- the geometric distortion on a SONY XBR be fixed by adjusting it?" I
- bet that not only will he tell you the truth, but he'll probably do it
- for free if you buy the TV from him.
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- In praise of local television dealers,
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- Don Gillies - gillies@cs.uiuc.edu - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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