@Quinnicus wrote:
Why must Sony give a choice on OS's? Its your choice to purchase a Sony Android TV. Just like your choice on LG's WebOS or Samsungs Tizen
Actually... It's NOT!
I requested that Sony replace my 2015 Android with a slightly larger (by way of compensation) 'Android Free' model from the 2014 range... Had I the CHOICE I would have never have purchased the Android set. Indeed, had I known that the Android OS was so deeply embedded in the set that it could not be 'ignored' and effectively crippled the unit such that it could not reliably be used as a basic domestic TV receiver - not in a million years would I have made that 'choice'...
So, I'm afraid your argument Quinnicus is an entirely 'straw man' one! - Most people are buying a TV set to watch TV programmes; not a giant tablet to fiddle with an OS. Most viewers couldn't give a rat's aspidistra about 'OSs'... They're there to drop a grand or so on something that will be the centre of their living room for the next half-decade or more...
As I've said before... Sony were once the 'Gold Standard' in television. For DECADES they build the de-facto standard machines in broadcast... They invented the U-Matic and BetaCam (not the same thing as Betamax) standards that dominated broadcast production for over three decades. - And even now, their old portable Trinitron monitors are highly prized by many broadcast cameramen... Their kit was legend..
People buy Sony based on their old reputation won over many decades... People trust Sony...
THAT is why they choose Sony...
And how is that trust repaid?
You CANNOT even plug an aerial into the back of one of these things, plug it in, and expect to watch basic off-air TV programmes on one of these things without problems...
- In a race to the bottom Sony have enlisted an hapless and unknowing public as their 'Beta Testers' for something they CANNOT have tested to any credible standard! - Support? A forum 'staffed' with barrack-room 'experts' who are very clearly completely untrained, unqualified and unknowing about much of what they speak!
- Some of these sets seem to have power supply issues; is there an actual engineer monitoring these boards to step in and take charge? - No!
It's bad enough that people are having their time and money wasted by Sony... That they're selling sets that are no better (and in many respects much worse) that Chinese Junk you could buy off a barra... That there is no PROPER support for people having issues with them.
But what will it take 'till THEY take full responsibility for this debacle? One of these damned things to set light to a family home?
Again... As I've said many times before... If Sony had an ounce of integrity as a company they'd recall these things immediately. Or better-still never have sent these unmitigated disasters to market in the first place. - The designers, developers and marketers behind this mess deserve their jotters.
As for the plastic Awards? Muttley Medals! No more no less! - I'm a PAYING customer; not a pie-fed lapdog! And it's the PAYING customersthat count!
Sony need to be restoring face... Until then?
Well in my case Sony... Sony Broadcast... Well they won't be getting any business from me in this year's tranche of new 4K kit. And we'll have the Jury well-out for the future. How we go from there will have much to do with how they recover from this mess.
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