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Has the Quality of Consumer Electronics Declined?
NewtonsLaw asks: "With Christmas coming up I dare say that lots of people are going to spend big bucks on consumer electronics in the next few weeks. This column asks an interesting question -- are consumer electronics manufacturers sacrificing quality and reliability for an endless list of features? If you're like me, you've probably got a TV, VCR or other appliance you bought over 5 years ago which is still going strong -- but much of the stuff you've bought in the past 2-3 years is already giving trouble. What's more, it seems to be the big-name manufacturers such as Sony who are most affected by this decline in standards. I'd love to hear the experiences of other Slashdot readers in an effort to get as many data-points as possible. Are you better off buying a $49 DVD player on the expectation that it will only last a year or so -- or do lay out two or three times that amount something made by a big-name manufacturer in the (possibly vain) hope it will provide superior performance and last longer?"
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First YOU FAIL IT ALL up in the goddamn place you be, you suckers.
you gey what you pay for.
Would you expect the quality of a 30$ CDROM driver to be the same as a 100$ unit 3 years ago ?
What about a 8$ floppy drive ?
"In America at least, I think the struggling economy is mostly to blame. Manufacturers are just trying to cut costs to bring their profit margins up, and one of the easiest ways of cutting costs is cutting quality."
In Corporate America, quality products decline you! Heek heek
Shouldn't people also start thing(sic) about not buying bloated products?
People can be flooded with information, but if the media is unwilling to publish it then it might as well not exist. Wake the fuck up, moron! Not everyone here is 15 - lots of us are middle-aged and angry as well. Things have been heading straight downhill every time the deluded republicans with their fantasies of corporate anarchy get the keys to the palace, and once again we're back in it. This time they've managed to subvert the entire structure of the mass media as well, and I greatly fear for the future. I'm sure legions of brainwashed dittoheads will goose-step their way into poverty, chanting the praises of Rush even as their 401K's are emptied into the pockets of some suit in Grand Cayman.
Anyway, if you honestly think that any of that kind of information is going to make it to the media any more, then I humbly suggest that you have not been paying the least bit of attention to what is actually happening in the USA.