?

Was it ever a good brand? Years back I wanted to put together a
component system, so I asked the guys in the repair shop what's a good
brand (name the component) to buy. Always got the same answer.
Anything that's not Sony. They said they repaired more Sony stuff than
everything else they sold put together.... Was that because they sold
more Sony stuff or because more Sony stuff broke? I dunno....

73, Jim KH2D

Was it ever a good brand? Years back I wanted to put together a
component system, so I asked the guys in the repair shop what's a good
brand (name the component) to buy. Always got the same answer.
Anything that's not Sony. They said they repaired more Sony stuff than
everything else they sold put together.... Was that because they sold
more Sony stuff or because more Sony stuff broke? I dunno....

73, Jim KH2D

Hi-San !,

"Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo" so called Sony in 1955, sold at that time a new
transistor, competitor to the first TR-1 fromTexas Instrument that entered
the US and European markets and did a real revolution.
For marketing reasons, M.Ibuka and his partner Akio Morita changed its name
in "Sony". A young, dynamic and very agressive company was born. You know
the rest of the story.
For your information, in 2004 revenues (ttm) of Sony Corp., SNE,
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=SNE, reached approx. $70 billions for a
gross profit of $20 billions, his annual earning growth exceeded 735%, with
16% of his shares held by institutions and insiders, not a small company...
Not only Sony became a major company represented worldwide including to the
small dealer located down to your street, but he has extended his know-how
in all personal and domestic activities : computing, imaging, audio, video,
television, wireless network, robotic, and more. As they say themselves,
welcome to the world of Sony, http://www.sony.com !

Since that time, within two generations Japan became in spite of everything
one of the major Powers in the world. Today in all technical areas, from the
underground railway to the spacecraft, the efficiency and reliability of
japanese and alike components exceed by far the quality of any European or
US product. Look around you : the most reliable cars are japanese or korean
(5 first, even before Germans), the best transceivers are japanese too, and
in all your home, if you look closely, most of your equipements are made in
Japan or their vital components (chips, etc) are made in the country of the
rising sun.
The small country who so-called lost face is winning the economical war.
Today however the sunny horizon of our friends-San displays some dark
clouds, http://www.dallasfed.org/research/sw.../swe0304c.html, they have
a lot of excellent competitors in JA, VK, UK, F, K, etc but they haven't
loose their place yet, they are winners.

73
Thierry, ON4SKY
http://www.astrosrf.com/lombry/qsl-ham-history.htm




"willy wonka" wrote in message
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Hi-San !,

"Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo" so called Sony in 1955, sold at that time a new
transistor, competitor to the first TR-1 fromTexas Instrument that entered
the US and European markets and did a real revolution.
For marketing reasons, M.Ibuka and his partner Akio Morita changed its name
in "Sony". A young, dynamic and very agressive company was born. You know
the rest of the story.
For your information, in 2004 revenues (ttm) of Sony Corp., SNE,
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=SNE, reached approx. $70 billions for a
gross profit of $20 billions, his annual earning growth exceeded 735%, with
16% of his shares held by institutions and insiders, not a small company...
Not only Sony became a major company represented worldwide including to the
small dealer located down to your street, but he has extended his know-how
in all personal and domestic activities : computing, imaging, audio, video,
television, wireless network, robotic, and more. As they say themselves,
welcome to the world of Sony, http://www.sony.com !

Since that time, within two generations Japan became in spite of everything
one of the major Powers in the world. Today in all technical areas, from the
underground railway to the spacecraft, the efficiency and reliability of
japanese and alike components exceed by far the quality of any European or
US product. Look around you : the most reliable cars are japanese or korean
(5 first, even before Germans), the best transceivers are japanese too, and
in all your home, if you look closely, most of your equipements are made in
Japan or their vital components (chips, etc) are made in the country of the
rising sun.
The small country who so-called lost face is winning the economical war.
Today however the sunny horizon of our friends-San displays some dark
clouds, http://www.dallasfed.org/research/sw.../swe0304c.html, they have
a lot of excellent competitors in JA, VK, UK, F, K, etc but they haven't
loose their place yet, they are winners.

73
Thierry, ON4SKY
http://www.astrosrf.com/lombry/qsl-ham-history.htm




"willy wonka" wrote in message
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In article ,
Toanswermeinprivateusehttp://www.astrosurf.com/lombry/post.htm says...

Look around you : the most reliable cars are japanese or korean
(5 first, even before Germans)

This is certainly the first time I've heard Korean cars
described as reliable! They are getting better, however.
Certainly, when they first came to the States, Hyundai
was the laughingstock of the automotive industry.

In general, the Japanese brands, Toyota, Honda, Nissan,
and Subaru seem to be very reliable. Suzuki and Isuzu
do not seem to be anywhere near as reliable. I wouldn't
write home about Mazdas and Mitsubishis either. In this
country, I've seen lots of Mitsubishis spitting blue smoke
out the tail pipe. Hard to believe that, as a class,
Mitsubishi owners are harder on their cars than owners
of other cars.

--
+----------------------------------------------+
| Bob Schreibmaier K3PH | E-mail: |
| Kresgeville, PA 18333 | http://www.dxis.org |
+----------------------------------------------+

In article ,
Toanswermeinprivateusehttp://www.astrosurf.com/lombry/post.htm says...

Look around you : the most reliable cars are japanese or korean
(5 first, even before Germans)

This is certainly the first time I've heard Korean cars
described as reliable! They are getting better, however.
Certainly, when they first came to the States, Hyundai
was the laughingstock of the automotive industry.

In general, the Japanese brands, Toyota, Honda, Nissan,
and Subaru seem to be very reliable. Suzuki and Isuzu
do not seem to be anywhere near as reliable. I wouldn't
write home about Mazdas and Mitsubishis either. In this
country, I've seen lots of Mitsubishis spitting blue smoke
out the tail pipe. Hard to believe that, as a class,
Mitsubishi owners are harder on their cars than owners
of other cars.

--
+----------------------------------------------+
| Bob Schreibmaier K3PH | E-mail: |
| Kresgeville, PA 18333 | http://www.dxis.org |
+----------------------------------------------+

"Bob Schreibmaier" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Toanswermeinprivateusehttp://www.astrosurf.com/lombry/post.htm says...

Look around you : the most reliable cars are japanese or korean
(5 first, even before Germans)

This is certainly the first time I've heard Korean cars
described as reliable! They are getting better, however.
Certainly, when they first came to the States, Hyundai
was the laughingstock of the automotive industry.


I base my opinion on the last car magazines "Car of the world" and alike
that sorted cars according various criteria, sales, problems/reliability,
customer satisfaction, etc. I didn't said that ALL JA or HL cars were
perfect, or I should...

Thierry

In general, the Japanese brands, Toyota, Honda, Nissan,
and Subaru seem to be very reliable. Suzuki and Isuzu
do not seem to be anywhere near as reliable. I wouldn't
write home about Mazdas and Mitsubishis either. In this
country, I've seen lots of Mitsubishis spitting blue smoke
out the tail pipe. Hard to believe that, as a class,
Mitsubishi owners are harder on their cars than owners
of other cars.

--
+----------------------------------------------+
| Bob Schreibmaier K3PH | E-mail: |
| Kresgeville, PA 18333 | http://www.dxis.org |
+----------------------------------------------+

"Bob Schreibmaier" wrote in message
...
In article ,
Toanswermeinprivateusehttp://www.astrosurf.com/lombry/post.htm says...

Look around you : the most reliable cars are japanese or korean
(5 first, even before Germans)

This is certainly the first time I've heard Korean cars
described as reliable! They are getting better, however.
Certainly, when they first came to the States, Hyundai
was the laughingstock of the automotive industry.


I base my opinion on the last car magazines "Car of the world" and alike
that sorted cars according various criteria, sales, problems/reliability,
customer satisfaction, etc. I didn't said that ALL JA or HL cars were
perfect, or I should...

Thierry

In general, the Japanese brands, Toyota, Honda, Nissan,
and Subaru seem to be very reliable. Suzuki and Isuzu
do not seem to be anywhere near as reliable. I wouldn't
write home about Mazdas and Mitsubishis either. In this
country, I've seen lots of Mitsubishis spitting blue smoke
out the tail pipe. Hard to believe that, as a class,
Mitsubishi owners are harder on their cars than owners
of other cars.

--
+----------------------------------------------+
| Bob Schreibmaier K3PH | E-mail: |
| Kresgeville, PA 18333 | http://www.dxis.org |
+----------------------------------------------+

I didn't know that Sony makes stills.....