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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: PO'ed at Sony
Message-ID: <3004@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 1 Aug 88 23:47:11 GMT
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Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
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In article <2531@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> kaplanr@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Roger Kaplan) writes:
}  I borrowed a friend's portable Sony CD player, a very old model that
}is not made any more ...
}... Before the trip starts, the thing stops working: when the
}disk is inserted, it spins for about 1/4 turn, stops, and the player
}shuts off ...
}... I take it in to one of the two Authorized Sony Repair depots in LA, this
}one in Burbank.  They tell me that they will send me an estimate *by mail*
}(you can't get a human on the phone; the most you can get is a recording
}telling when you can schlep your device in).  I got the estimate yesterday.
}Get this: $320!!!  ...

I had a similar problem with my Sony D-77 (top of the line portable at the
time).  I brought it to the same shop and told them to call me if the
repair was going to cost more than $100.  Final repair cost: $60.

Apparently a lot of the Sony CD players had a design flaw that caused a
wire harness to drag when the laser assembly moved.  This eventually
caused a jam.  Anyway, it's worked fairly well since (an occasional glitch
now and then), but I haven't taken it travelling, either.  The last time I
took it on an extended trip in a car (7 hours) it started making
unpleasant mechanical noises.  I don't think they're portable in the sense
you can play them on the go.  Only in the sense you can take them
somewhere and play them there.  I've decided to avoid portable CD players
in general and Sony in particular.

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