Bad SSD sensors

Apparently a number of camera manufacturers are having problems with their CCD
Sensors. Canon just replaced my SD 100 at no cost - in fact replaced it with an
SD 550!!

I have a friend that has a Sony that is acting the same way as mine did. Have
"Googled" for Service Advisorys from Sony, and found a couple of British sites
that indicate free repair and provide European contact points, but I can't seem
to locate anything for the US.

Can anyone offer any info on the subject for the States?

Big John

I dought bad ccds were used by Sony after late 2003- mid 2004.

"Big John" wrote in message
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Apparently a number of camera manufacturers are having problems with their
CCD Sensors. Canon just replaced my SD 100 at no cost - in fact replaced
it with an SD 550!!

I have a friend that has a Sony that is acting the same way as mine did.
Have "Googled" for Service Advisorys from Sony, and found a couple of
British sites that indicate free repair and provide European contact
points, but I can't seem to locate anything for the US.

Can anyone offer any info on the subject for the States?

Here's a web page detailing the problem. It lists a zillion affected Sony
models.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/badccds.html

Here's a Sony web page that also talks about the problem:

http://www.css.ap.sony.com/consumer/....aspx?Id=45536

At the bottom are links to affected models.

Bruce.

Here's a web page detailing the problem. It lists a zillion affected Sony
models.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/badccds.html

Here's a Sony web page that also talks about the problem:

http://www.css.ap.sony.com/consumer/....aspx?Id=45536

At the bottom are links to affected models.

Has Sony had a run of bad luck, or have they adopted an American short-term
profits attitude?

In article , Charles
Schuler writes

Has Sony adopted an American short-term
profits attitude?

Was Sony ever anything other than a short term profit run company?

--
Kennedy
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's ****ed.
Python Philosophers (replace 'nospam' with 'kennedym' when replying)

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:30:59 +0000, Kennedy McEwen wrote:

In article , Charles
Schuler writes

Has Sony adopted an American short-term
profits attitude?

Was Sony ever anything other than a short term profit run company?

I don't know if you remember when Sony first hit the US market with their
transistorized televisions that were tiny and capable of being run off a
car battery. Those were good sets--mine has been dropped and otherwise
taken a beating over the years but it still works, or at least it did the
last time I turned it on. Picture quality isn't what it once was, but it's
been dropped and taken a beating and it's over 30 years old, so I don't
hold it at fault for that.

Opened it up once, it was clear that it was hand-made--no wave-soldered
boards in sight.

Back then Sony made good stuff.

Later a time came when their equipment wasn't always particularly
high-spec but it could be counted on to provide at least a usable
level of functionality, if not so high as to please the connoiseur. They
aren't even that good anymore. A friend bought a Sony turntable the other
day that can't spin the record at anything even distantly resembling a
constant speed. The toy phonograph I had when I was a kid did better. I
would chalk it up to his just getting a lemon, but half the customer
feedback reports for that model on Amazon report the same problem.


--
--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

"Charles Schuler" wrote in message
. ..
Has Sony had a run of bad luck, or have they adopted an American
short-term profits attitude?

I can't say as to what their attitude is, but they seem to be making lots of
mistakes lately. Poor design, engineering, quality control, maybe all the
above.

What killed me is the rootkit virus their audio CDs installed. I've removed
Sony from my buy list permanently over that one.

Bruce.

I've removed
Sony from my buy list permanently.

And so have I Bruce. Different issues here, but the same decision as a
consumer. I used to like and recommend Sony products.

J. Clarke wrote:
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:30:59 +0000, Kennedy McEwen wrote:

In article , Charles
Schuler writes

Has Sony adopted an American short-term
profits attitude?

Was Sony ever anything other than a short term profit run company?

I don't know if you remember when Sony first hit the US market with their
transistorized televisions that were tiny and capable of being run off a
car battery. Those were good sets--mine has been dropped and otherwise
taken a beating over the years but it still works, or at least it did the
last time I turned it on. Picture quality isn't what it once was, but it's
been dropped and taken a beating and it's over 30 years old, so I don't
hold it at fault for that.

Opened it up once, it was clear that it was hand-made--no wave-soldered
boards in sight.

Back then Sony made good stuff.

Later a time came when their equipment wasn't always particularly
high-spec but it could be counted on to provide at least a usable
level of functionality, if not so high as to please the connoiseur. They
aren't even that good anymore. A friend bought a Sony turntable the other
day that can't spin the record at anything even distantly resembling a
constant speed. The toy phonograph I had when I was a kid did better. I
would chalk it up to his just getting a lemon, but half the customer
feedback reports for that model on Amazon report the same problem.


--
--John
to email, dial "usenet" and validate
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

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Charles Schuler wrote:

Here's a web page detailing the problem. It lists a zillion affected Sony
models.

http://www.imaging-resource.com/badccds.html

Here's a Sony web page that also talks about the problem:

http://www.css.ap.sony.com/consumer/....aspx?Id=45536

At the bottom are links to affected models.

Has Sony had a run of bad luck, or have they adopted an American short-term
profits attitude?


Hello, Charles:

What does that mean, and how is it related to the production of shoddy
merchandise? (Which seems to be Sony's specialty, nowadays.)


Cordially,
John Turco