Why Sony needs to stop drinking its own Kool-Aid

[Jordahn]

xman said:

HappySqurriel said:

xman said:
I am a bit of a TV snob and spent months researching the best 52 inch tv and mist web sights stated the sony and samsung are the best! The tv you mention above is Junk. Let me ask you is there a difference betwee a ford focus and a BMW3 servies

the focus is 18k the BMW is 38K are you saying the are the same you are just paying for the BMW name?

 

No, I'm saying that when you have a company (like Sony) who charges a priemium over other high quality products when most of the market is looking for "economy" products they shouldn't expect to become a market leader with their product.

 

I know what you are saying but on the TV front they are not I was looking at buying a samsung (as mentioned before both samsung and sony are currently the best LCD on the market) when I got to best buy and did the comparison the sony with the same stats was cheaper so I went Sony.

I do agree they dont make a budget version of the LCD but thats because they want to be known as the best and wont strip everything out to make a $800.00 LCD tv you can say thats not smart but I agree with Sony.

I am older (check my profile) and I have owned in my life time 4 sony Tvs, 2 panasonic, 2 mitsubishi, 1 Oevia.

In the house is a sony 32inch XBR flat screen CRT 10 years old, 40inch XBR flat screen CRT 6 years old, New XBR 52 inch LCD 20 inch Sharp LCD and one 37 inc Oleveia LCD. The sony TVs are by far trhe nicest

Bought my kids a 37 inch LCD Olevia for $500.00 bought my 52inch sony $21000.00 my son comes down 10 years old last week and says to me why does your picture look so much better than mine, I laughed and said mine is a sony.

 

You get what you pay for and Sony is known for the best in TV's has been for 15 years

 

Thanks...  And let me add that I don't think many of us knew that the economy was going to tank.  And I don't think A/V equipment is high on most people's financial priorities.  Looks like no Kool-Aid here... unless it's grape flavored.  Just an economy turning south.