Comments on: Widescreen Review & Joe Kane on Blu-ray http://www.hometheaterblog.com/hometheater/2006/08/widescreen-review-joe-kane-on-blu-ray/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=widescreen-review-joe-kane-on-blu-ray Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: westcotthttp://www.hometheaterblog.com/hometheater/2006/08/widescreen-review-joe-kane-on-blu-ray/#comment-902 westcott Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:57:30 +0000 http://www.hometheaterblog.com/?p=463#comment-902 I would love to have a job where I got paid for screwing up just about everything I touch. Sony has made a mess of HD players and it looks like they will loose the format war, just like they did with Beta Max. They seem to always rely on their shear weight as a company and technology and innovation are a distant second consideration. Sony has lost the respect of the consumers over the last few years for putting out unreliable equipment and designs that are just incomplete or not well executed. Just an example. I just bought a Sony Mega Changer. It is a great player when it comes to convenience and it has a lot of great features. But, to cut costs (and corners) they decided not to include non volatile memory. So, most of the features are useless unless you risk a power outage or buy a separate UPS. They also decided that they would not read CD info. (song titles and album name) off of anyone's CD unless it was a Sony CD. Once again, making their product a real pain to use. Do not get me wrong, Sony can put out a great product when they put their mind to it but more often than not, they fall short and they seem to be falling short more and more often and reliability is now a concern with all their products now. Not something that was a concern several years ago. I would love to have a job where I got paid for screwing up just about everything I touch. Sony has made a mess of HD players and it looks like they will loose the format war, just like they did with Beta Max. They seem to always rely on their shear weight as a company and technology and innovation are a distant second consideration. Sony has lost the respect of the consumers over the last few years for putting out unreliable equipment and designs that are just incomplete or not well executed.

Just an example. I just bought a Sony Mega Changer. It is a great player when it comes to convenience and it has a lot of great features. But, to cut costs (and corners) they decided not to include non volatile memory. So, most of the features are useless unless you risk a power outage or buy a separate UPS. They also decided that they would not read CD info. (song titles and album name) off of anyone’s CD unless it was a Sony CD. Once again, making their product a real pain to use. Do not get me wrong, Sony can put out a great product when they put their mind to it but more often than not, they fall short and they seem to be falling short more and more often and reliability is now a concern with all their products now. Not something that was a concern several years ago.

]]> By: westcotthttp://www.hometheaterblog.com/hometheater/2006/08/widescreen-review-joe-kane-on-blu-ray/#comment-7244 westcott Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:57:00 +0000 http://www.hometheaterblog.com/?p=463#comment-7244 I would love to have a job where I got paid for screwing up just about everything I touch. Sony has made a mess of HD players and it looks like they will loose the format war, just like they did with Beta Max. They seem to always rely on their shear weight as a company and technology and innovation are a distant second consideration. Sony has lost the respect of the consumers over the last few years for putting out unreliable equipment and designs that are just incomplete or not well executed. Just an example. I just bought a Sony Mega Changer. It is a great player when it comes to convenience and it has a lot of great features. But, to cut costs (and corners) they decided not to include non volatile memory. So, most of the features are useless unless you risk a power outage or buy a separate UPS. They also decided that they would not read CD info. (song titles and album name) off of anyone's CD unless it was a Sony CD. Once again, making their product a real pain to use. Do not get me wrong, Sony can put out a great product when they put their mind to it but more often than not, they fall short and they seem to be falling short more and more often and reliability is now a concern with all their products now. Not something that was a concern several years ago. I would love to have a job where I got paid for screwing up just about everything I touch. Sony has made a mess of HD players and it looks like they will loose the format war, just like they did with Beta Max. They seem to always rely on their shear weight as a company and technology and innovation are a distant second consideration. Sony has lost the respect of the consumers over the last few years for putting out unreliable equipment and designs that are just incomplete or not well executed.

Just an example. I just bought a Sony Mega Changer. It is a great player when it comes to convenience and it has a lot of great features. But, to cut costs (and corners) they decided not to include non volatile memory. So, most of the features are useless unless you risk a power outage or buy a separate UPS. They also decided that they would not read CD info. (song titles and album name) off of anyone’s CD unless it was a Sony CD. Once again, making their product a real pain to use. Do not get me wrong, Sony can put out a great product when they put their mind to it but more often than not, they fall short and they seem to be falling short more and more often and reliability is now a concern with all their products now. Not something that was a concern several years ago.

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