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Re: PO'ed at Sony

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From: Henry Mensch
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1988 23:27
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kucharsk@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski) wrote: 
->When, about 8 months ago I had my Sony CDP-302 repaired for a laser
->problem, it cost $235 to repair (it had only cost me $350 new...).
->This was because they couldn't just replace the laser, they had to
->replace the whole laser assembly.  This may be the problem in your case.

hearing this is scaring me a bit, because i plan on buying a
complicated-disk player sometime soon.

if the bloody things cost so much to fix, why is it unreasonable to
simply toss the old one out and buy a new one?

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From: henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch)
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Subject: Re: PO'ed at Sony
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