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It just makes me wonder what other kind of "reviews" sony has fabricated. It'll be hard to avoid buying any kind of sony product (CD, DVD, black box) from now on but I'm going to make an effort. Something about this incident just turned me off completely from Sony products. Maybe it was the straw that broke the camel's back after hearing about the racism the japanese execs practice.Tom §.
Copied from imdb.com:
Sony Agrees To Pay $326,000 For Phony Reviews
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced Tuesday that he had reached an agreement with Sony Pictures Entertainment concerning complaints that it used phony reviews from a Connecticut paper to promote several of its films. Sony has admitted that the "David Manning" of the Ridgefield Press, a small Connecticut weekly, was actually the creation of its publicity department. Blumenthal said Tuesday that Sony has agreed to pay the state a fine of $326,000, to stop fabricating movie reviews, and to stop using TV commercials in which Sony employees and actors pose as ordinary moviegoers to praise the company's films. In a statement, Blumenthal said, "These deceptive ads deserve two thumbs down."
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This response may venture a little off topic, but bear with me.Personally, I think SONY has just one thing going for it: high quality TV sets. Beyond that, ...well, I've been burned by SONY's less than scrupulous business practices as I'm sure other's have. Along with Phillips, SONY was for many years responsible for the high price of CDs, ...at least until the patents started running out ending their royalties (i.e., that was the main impetus for them pushing the SACD format). Funny thing is, I don't really CARE whether their format is superior to DVD-Audio if I'm caught in the middle between incompatible systems which would either 1) force me to choose between favorite artists or 2) buy separate formats, or 3) purchase a mediocre all-in-one platform that carries both.
SONY's ruthlessness at the expense of customer loyalty is the reason some folks get left in the lurch after purchasing their products. Who can forget the Betamax/VHS wars? Fortunately, I chose well in that campaign, but just a few years prior to the videotape revolution SONY's audio division claimed that they could replicate the sound of tubes with their VFET transistor and I foolishly purchased one of their integrateds thinking I'd have the best of both worlds! Hey, what can I say, I was younger then and didn't know any better! ;^)
Anyway, within four years I was using that SONY amp for ballast in the trunk of my car because SONY ceased supporting their product and replacing the transistors (i.e., even at a premium price) which had a tendency to burn out every 4 to 6 months.
No Tom, my trust of SONY turned to skepticism waaaaay back, but this "fake review" scandal is lower than anything that I thought they were capable of; so low in fact that it's off the scale.
Audiophilander
I don't think I've ever read a post I've agreed with so wholeheartedly, every single point... I've wanted to vent re Sony so often, but it's not really my thing, so appreciate you doing it. Love their displays though, have several at home including a new one and one > 20 years old, probably the only electronics purchases I've ever been 100% satisfied with, not a single complaint. But hate their apparent complete disdain for their customers.
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