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Posted on 11/24/2006 6:50:48 AM PST by BenLurkin
TOKYO (AP) -- Sony said Friday it found a defect in some of its popular Cyber-shot compact digital cameras and offered to repair affected cameras free of charge. 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, Sony Corp. said in a statement.
Affected are eight Cyber-shot models sold between September 2003 and January 2005 in Japan and in a similar period globally, according to Sony spokesman Chisato Kitsukawa.
Sony will repair for free only cameras that show signs of the problems, Kitsukawa said. He refused to say how many cameras might be affected.
It's the second time in just over a year that Tokyo-based Sony announced defects in its digital cameras. It cited similar problems with 20 other digital camera models last October and offered free repairs.
The blows to Sony's mainstay Cyber-shot digital camera line follow a huge -- and embarrassing -- global recall of Sony-made laptop batteries that affected almost every major laptop maker in the world.
Sony is struggling to catch up in other areas where it has fallen behind rivals, including flat-panel TVs, portable music players and DVD recorders.
Still, Japan's electronics and entertainment giant may have a blockbuster in the new PlayStation 3, its much-awaited new video game console. The PS3 went on sale in Japan and the United States earlier this month. Its European debut has been pushed back till March because of production problems.
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Has Sony gone UNION? Use to be Sony had no Monday morning or Friday afternoon production malfunctions.
AP Photo: "This undated photo released by Sony Corp., on Friday, Nov. 24, 2006, shows Sony Corp's digital camera the Cyber-Shot DSC-T1."
don't forget the worlds worst video game roll out of the PS3
The sony chairman of video gaming responded to criticism by saying that the PS3 is a work of art not a console.
Recent reports are that the much vaunted Sony Play Station 3 has an severe oveheating problem and some of the games are flawed. Sony is in trouble.
sony has a poor history of supporting their brand name products.
They keep trying to make people rebuy "software" they already own.
IE why do they have the memory stick when nobody else uses it? it is 100% a waste of money. The only way I would buy a sony camera now is with a memory stick adapter for the SD chip of all my other products. (and even now we are transitioning to microSD)
I just get double exposures.
Not bad. It only took them 3 years to react to the problem.
quality control has reached their marketing quality.
See betamax,
See Clie,
See miniDisc
and on and on
marketing morons.
No camera in the World would make it past the first snapshot of that shrew before either melting of exploding.
Ha! That is one of the funniest pictures ever.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Also don't forget the malware on their music cds.
In my case,4 notebooks,3 PCs,4 TVs,countless audio and video products(3 photo cameras included) from Sony.Never had a single problem.
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