walsufnir said:
I remember a friend who bought a dvd-player from Sony. He paid twice the price than the cheap dvd-players because "it's a Sony!" Well, it played DVDs and CD-A. End of the story. My dvd-player played vcd, svcd, could read photo-cds, showed jpegs and even divx. And of course the picture wasn't any worse. Or their bluray-players: When I bought mine, Sony didn't support NTFS or MKV. Ok, in one way I can understand to not do this but others can do it (e.g. Samsung) so why don't they? I think they are relying too much on their brand than in anything else. These are only examples, of course, and still Sony has good products but it is not great in every way. Especially the support-quality is varying and generally considered to be not as strong as it is supposed to be given the price. |
The problem is that Sony is always portrayed as the premium guys kinda like Apple is. I mean why does a Vaio Ultrabook cost more than a Zenbook which has superior everything? And the answer is like you said it's Sony!
When I bought the receiver back in the past holidays I came home and my mom - yes my mom a typical mom that knows nothing about tech - told me is that a Sony product??? Thing is back in the 90s Sony = PREMIUMMMMM
Today I can assure everyone that Premium became mainstream which in that case means just normal shit like everyone else!