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Sony Finds Defect In Digital Cameras

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the caveat-emptor dept.

gbobeck writes "Sony announced Friday that it found a defect in 8 Cyber-shot compact digital camera models. 'The liquid crystal display screens of eight camera models might not display images correctly, images could be distorted or cameras might not take photos at all.' The affected models were sold between September 2003 and January 2005 globally. According to Sony spokesman Chisato Kitsukawa, 'Sony will repair for free only cameras that show signs of the problems.'"

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  1. Is it just me? by ZeroSerenity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or is Sony really going downhill between the laptop batteries, the PS3 and now this?

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    1. Re:Is it just me? by evolseven · · Score: 2, Interesting

      the memory stick was probably unnecessary, I will give you that one as there were other less proprietary formats out there that could have fit the bill (sd or CF).. But mini-disc.. I actually own a net-md player, and I love the thing.. Yah I am nowhere as cool as the guys with the hard drive based players.. but were there any alternatives at the time?? it was smaller than a cd.. and basically scratch proof... so what was wrong about introducing the mini-disc??

  2. Canon has it's problems too! by cdn · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Don't be too hard on Sony. I recently had to get Canon to replace my PowerShot A70 with a A530 (better res, flimsy camera body) because the image sensor was defective. It was a known defect but they couldn't come up with the replacement part for 2 months.

  3. This is getting a bit old by level4 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I used to be a big Sony fan. My friends would make jokes about how much of a Sony fan I was - Sony TV, Sony monitor, Sony CD players and headphones. The whole deal. Not fanboy mind you, just a genuine fan of a great company.

    About 5 years ago my opinion of them slowly began to sour, like a lot of peoples' it seems. And now, looking around me, I don't have any Sony stuff at all - I gave it all away during my natural cycle of replacements. My new generation of stereo equipment, for example, is heavily informed by the existence of iTunes & iPod, and where I once would have had nothing but Trinitron there's now Samsung and Apple.

    So I've got pretty strong feelings about Sony. I used to love them, before they started going wrong. They used to be the best in so many categories, now I couldn't name any area in which I think they are. It's a kind of bitter feeling for me at least, watching a company you used to love go bad. I've often wondered about what really caused it .. buying that record company is high on the list of possibilities. Taking a king hit from Apple and/or Samsung that they never really recovered from, maybe. Or perhaps just inevitable corporate cultural decline. It's an interesting, but depressing, story.

    But no matter how bitter I feel about them, I'll never dig this kind of overenthusiastic schadenfreude that I see here, gleefully revelling in every little misstep, like a bunch of stupid little brats in some playground. Sony used to be great. What's happened to them should be a sobering study in corporate cancer, not an opportunity for some cheap yuks at any possible bad news.

    I think there's a lot of entrepreneurial wannabes here, maybe like me. Sony used to be the kind of company I aspired to. Maybe not realistically expecting to mirror their successes but, you know, "if I could have any company, it would be Sony" kind of deal. But now, seeing what's happening to them, I wonder if any company can keep its integrity or whether companies that get too big just inevitably rot from the inside, as seems to be happening here. I'd love to have intelligent discussions about what the hell went wrong at Sony, how and if other companies can avoid this kind of cancer, try to find the inflection points where decisions were made that were critically wrong in hindsight.

    But fuck this childish mocking! Are there really people here who take actual pleasure in seeing once-great companies falter? If so, that's just pathetic.

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  4. Re:Why work with Sony anymore? by gggggggg · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "battery recall pissed me off"...You talk in past tense! Lucky you.

    Here I am, months later, still waiting for 3 of the 4 batteries I requested.
    I wonder how they've managed that. The 4 were ordered at exactly the same time. Only one made it here.

  5. My Slammed Psone works flawlessly by Nazmun · · Score: 1, Interesting

    My playstation was literally flung across the room onto a wall causing the game inside to popout. It was then slammed into the cd that popped out causing it to shatter (first time i've ever seen a CD shatter). The playstation still continued to run all games flawlessly (other then the shattered CD!). It also fell down a flight of carpeted stairs once.

    I'm baffled whenever i here of overheating playstations (i've played in carpet for at least a few hundred hours although i try to keep it on some platform) or disc lens going out. I guess a few batches may have had manufacturing defects or people play it in 120 degree temperature on a carpet. Otherwise it's the toughbook of consoles.

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