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In Reply to: RE: My $80 Sony is terrific: great picture, great sound through my analog, vintage set up. Why throw money away? n posted by tinear on January 31, 2013 at 08:52:14
And even better luck when it breaks, and it most certainly will, and you get the "pleasure" of dealing with Sony's abysmal "customer service".
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At $80 he can just throw it away and buy another. How many could he buy before buying the Oppo?
-Wendell
The great American spirit, that is!! Don't buy things that perform well and last. Simply buy another disposable unit and toss the previous ones into the landfill. That's some clever thinking there...
-RW-
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Instead, perhaps you should direct it toward those who are supplying Americans (and anyone else who's willing to buy it, for that matter) with disposable crap.
They are doing it in droves because of a lack of foresight. Why spend a bit more money for a well-built, long-lasting unit when BestBuy and WalMart will sell you some mass-produced Chinese products that give up the ghost after 1 or 2 years service?
American culture is built around this disposable products paradigm. As an example: A friend of mine's wife works for (Ja)Panasonic and is their top salesman for the entire East coast. She informed us one day that Panasonic has 500 year plan for the company. 500 years!! Contrast that with the typical American company that plans no further than 5 years into the future. And ALL of those American companies are slaves to the sales figure generated in the last 1-2 quarters.
This is a very basic difference in corporate culture and one that engenders the disposable products mindset of virtually all American consumers...
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Good.
-Wendell
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