Comments on: The Truth About Your Next Electronics Purchase — NSFW

By: Ho-Lip Tex

Ho-Lip Tex — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:42:36 +0000

‘nother Sony fanboy here, and yes, this is fucking hilarious! I love the Onion; they just keep getting funnier.

By: Cap'nKangaroo

Cap'nKangaroo — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:58:02 +0000

#5 I don’t blame the engineers, I blame the marketing dept. They talk up the product and what wonderful things it can do before the engineers even have a working proof of concept, much less a preproduction model.

By: HMeyers

HMeyers — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:18:58 +0000

Nice find!

By: hhopper

hhopper — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:20:58 +0000

That is the funniest Onion newscast I’ve ever seen. Triple Har!

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:09:09 +0000

Sounds like all the SORRY, er, SONY equipment I ever bought:
audio cassette/radio: began eating tapes the first day out of warranty

AM/FM/PSB radio: detuned about a week after the end of the warranty

Laptop (VAIO): Purchased with extended warranty (I know, I know…), spent about 1 year out of that warranty being returned to purchaser and shipped for repair, returned with it still unable to boot.

J/P=?

By: Miguel

Miguel — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:31:35 +0000

WILL IT FUCKING BLEND????

Really, I love Sony But this was 5 stars hilarious!

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:18:39 +0000

So … Sony makes all the DTV setup boxes under different brand names with slightly different wording in the unreadable instructions?

By: Adam G.

Adam G. — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:01:51 +0000

That’s why I love The Onion.

By: rudedog

rudedog — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:00:20 +0000

I could not agree more.. This describes Sony to a “T”.

They did forgot to mention the word Proprietary in their coverage of Sony, which if you look it up on wiki means Sony in Japanese.

By: BigBoyBC

BigBoyBC — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:55:15 +0000

Typical, I went to Best Buy to get one, and they were sold out… Now I’ll have to get it on eBay!

By: moss

moss — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:09:57 +0000

Absolutely fucking hilarious! Thanks Uncle Dave.

Now, to get back to emailing CNN to thank them for providing 2 hours live coverage today of the Caylee Anthony Memorial Service followed by a 1 hour Nancy Grace Special Analysis.

Sadly, that last bit is not a spoof.

By: nathan_aps

nathan_aps — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:02:54 +0000

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

that is gold! now to get back to work.

nathan

By: smartalix

smartalix — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:53:49 +0000

I have often railed in my columns against feature creep and functionality overload. Not too many listen, as it seems engineers love to lard on as many functions into a device as possible.

By: TThor

TThor — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:41:48 +0000

And I wonder why people buy Macs……?
I really hope Sony catch the point here, despite foul language and all. Their stuff is made by engineers for engineers. Look at the remote control for any Sony devise for Gods sake, and compare it Apple’s.
No need to be a rocket scientist to realize why #2 above hits the nail on the head…..

By: MPL

MPL — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:41:24 +0000

#3 Mr. Fusion

Would you lookup Leibertarian in the dictionary?