leres@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU (Craig Leres) (10/17/85)
[eat me]
My CDP-70 arrived today; with it came an application form for "The
Sony partnership" which costs (only) $79.95. For the money, you get
the following:
- 2 years extended warranty on all parts
- one free "calibration clinic visit"
- free jazz sampler CD disc
- subscription to "The Sony Pulse" (official journal of the
Sony Digital Audio Club)
- member-only discounts on compact disc accessories
- member-only rental discounts (VCRs, cameras, movies)
- etc.
I'd probably join for something like $9.95, but at $79.95... Meanwhile,
I'm curious if anyone else has joined up. I'd be kinda interested in
what kind of propaganda turns up in The Sony Pulse. For those of you who
just bought new Sony CD players, the address is:
The Sony partnership
P.O. Box 2841
General Post Office New York, NY 10116
Also of interest is the "Sony compact disc count offer". I got
a certificate with my player that (after I mail it in) is supposed
to yield 100 $2 coupons to be used in the purchase of CDs. When I
get the details (e.g. the list of participating retailers and CD
titles) I guess I'll see just how valuable this offer is.
One last thing; although the CDP-70 isn't advertised as a remote
control unit, connection of the supplied 4 conductor cable between
it and my STR-AV560 receiver slaves it to the RM-S760 remote control.
(Too bad, you only get play, stop, and AMS from the remote.) The
operating manual also mentions remote control using the RM-D1K
wireless remote control kit.
Craigrfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (10/17/85)
[] The inadvisability of extended warranties was recently unanimously put down on tablets of stone in this news group. It aint worth it. The free jazz sampler was supposed to be just that - free. It used to come with the players and wasn't worth much - maybe 50 cents. 'course I'm not into jazz, but I have a feeling that if I were, the value estimate might drop to 10 cents. The Sony digital audio club has to be about the bigggest rip off even sony ever invented. I joined abougt two years ago upon payment of $10. I got one (1)envelope from the club in two years. It containe d a binch of misc. advertising junk mail, a "company-type" "paper" (one issue), some more offers. I have it somewhere. It was maybe worth 5 cents in reading interest. I did get some other envelpe once with more sales material trying to talk me into subscribiong to some old folks cd club or something like that. In short, the insanity and death-wish driven enthusiasm of the divine-wind driven sony folks are a legend in the trade. If their equipment weren't so superb, if their engineering weren't so many years of everyone else, and they had to depend on their marketing department (like normal high-tech firms), Sony would long ago have collapsed utterly and the younger generation would not even recognize the name anymore, like hudson, hupmobile and stutz. I would run as hard as possible in the opposite direction of that offer. Subscribe to digital audio magazine or some other fine trade publication. It will be a lot cheaper and you will get a lot more out of it. Thems my sentiments. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg
cwa@houxl.UUCP (Kathy Wickman) (10/17/85)
Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: The Sony partnership References: <10679@ucbvax.ARPA>, <1420@hound.UUCP>