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What's /g/'s favourite Sony products?
I personally dislike their Laptops and Phones but absolutely adore their media players and audio products.
Z5 compact is pretty good tbqh.
>>54201596
Old trinitron (couple with ps2)
Modern sony tv are probably best ips based tvs
Sony headphones pretty good travel travel headphones
Vaios are shit
Phones are based, I dropped my z3 into the pool and though thats it, its fucked then realised its waterproof
Sony pictures
>>54201596
Reballed Launch PS3 (60GB, but with upgraded HDD). Beefiest specs of them all, full BC with PS2 games, and a lot of BC with PS1 games.
Their audio products (speakers and headphones) and phones.
The TVs are...okay.
>>54202184
Their Bravia TVs were a lot more impressive a decade ago. These days, you're just paying for the name.
That said, I've got a Sony Bravia KDL-46R453A. It was a decent buy for $400.
And SOME of their audio products are great. Others are no better than beats.
>>54201596
Bought this DAB+ radio yesterday and it produces an impossible amount of sound for something the size of an iPhone 4S. Their Audio division is still godly. Their bluetooth speakers aren't that much bigger but fucking hell, the sound they produce is insane, more than most Logitech 2.1 desktop systems.
They're really expensive though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uSDd1UEhgk
Their cameras
>A7r II
>A7s II
>A6000/A6300
>>54202270
If you're willing to wait a few years, the price plummets. I got the Sony HTCT 100 for 80 bucks new in box last year. Hell of a sound bar system, even today (although it's missing some of the more modern features).
>>54202308
I fucking love my A6000.
>>54202270
Also here's a demo on the previous gen Sony bluetooth speaker. The current one has 24h battery life at 50% volume. Stupidly good sound quality for something not much bigger than most smartphones.
https://youtu.be/WWxst7dXTEs?t=4m31s
Vaio laptops.
Seriously I have a 6 years old laptop, working fine as fuck, never changed any part, never took to the shop. Even the battery is still giving an hour
>>54202328
Ikr.
I take mine with me wherever I go.
>>54202354
I bought two $300 Toshiba Satellites in 2010. Both can make the same claim. Only thing I'm beginning to get concerned about is the HDD.
Thoughts on old Sony record players?
Are they any good?
>>54202449
No clue. That said, pretty much anything Sony released up to the late 90's was bleeding edge, in my experience.
Having a 9" color TV that didn't bleed any colors was an engineering feat back then, and they pulled it off.
>>54202518
Dunno why I used the smaller pic.
Post your trinitrons
>>54202659
My dad used this one in the kitchen when I was growing up forever. He still might have it around somewhere.
>>54202308
Man, SLT is awesome tech too
>A65
>A77 & A77II
>A99
>>54201596
SXRD projectors are one of their own proprietary image technologies for which they still manufacture LSI in-house, and for a reason; top grade stuff if well tuned, practically no pixel grid visible even at low resolutions, fantastic accuracy and colour reproduction. This was truly the Trinitron's CRT substitute they should have invested on. Their rear-projection TV were sadly too short-lived.
And also if only their DPT-S1 was cheaper! I think the Mobius e-Ink display tech should be used in the future on other mass market line of products from them.
>>54202659
>>54203123
But SXRD on cinema projectors, please. The latest prosumer projectors have average quality optics.
Anyway, their PRO division is still at the top of its game, and this latest TRIMASTER EL monitor seems orgasmic on paper:
http://www.sony.co.uk/pro/press/pr-sony-introduces-the-pvm-x550?SM=TW1&src=170416BSPBCR_NAB__ZLBI&cmp=scl-cc-11242
I got a VAIO Pro 11, still runs well, also bought two of the external battery clips so I have literal all day laptop
I like their recorders
Their highend IEMs
Studio headphones for general use
Their old ereaders
The Paperwhite (if it wasn't 600USD+)
I always hear about their drawing/tablet/laptop being good alternative to surfacebook here.
>>54202270
They have a Hi-Fi walkman with good sound too apparently but completely retarded price.
>>54205300
The motherfuckin' VAIO Canvas Z
>>54205251
Those are the EX800ST, right? Do they sell these outside Japan officially? Importing them nowadays would be a rip off.
>>54201596
sony vegas/movie studio
>>54201596
Xperia Z is amazing, the old x10 mini was awesome as well.
Their headphones are alright, xb 900 and 1000 sound good.
I feel as if sony has gone down hill a lot though. Their build quality for headphones doesnt compare to a few decades ago and their tvs are average.
Playstation line is at an alltime low as well, though Im more concerned with the vita than the ps4
>>54205384
>EX800ST
the ones in the picture are MDR-7550 but I'm not sure if that correlates to the renaming of the model in Asian markets
Both seem to hover around the $200USD pricepoint
>>54205484
Nice, didn't know these were marketed in western countries with another name. Gotta find a cheap offer then!
>>54205788
I'm not even sure. I was blindly assuming since they look the same and go for the same price
>>54201596
They make the best blank media: CDs, DVDs and BDs.
The D-Pad on the Vita is the best D-Pad that has ever existed on any controller or handheld.
>>54205911
its a shame the vita is so underplayed
>>54205862
The Sony branded ones manufactured by Taiyo-Yuden were probably some of the best, but not now.
RIP Taiyo-Yuden blanks.
![Sony-MDR-7506[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/WPMYKY8.jpg "Sony-MDR-7506[1].jpg")
>>54202178
I love the ps3. It would be perfect if it wasn't for the high failure rate.
Also pic related is pretty good.
Slick as fuck
>>54206196
i always liked that the icon is rotatable
how the fuck does a thread like this exist
isn't this some next level shilling?
that said, currently using bravia nx
of all sets out there sony still has the fastest response and lowest latency, works great for hooking up with pc and playing dorksoul3 on 60 inch goodness
props for timeless design too
>>54202178
arent the phat ps3s literally on life support?
>>54206266
How do you mean?
>>54206357
the ps icon on the disc drive can be rotated to fit the position of the console, horizontal or vertical
>>54206300
Slick, how much does something like that cost?
>>54206357
well, the icon can be rotated.
>>54206497
i got this one for about 2000 with soundbar stand included in early 2013 i think, can't remember the exact year
easily the nicest tv i've ever owned
Would love one of these things. They're so good looking, but rare and expensive as fuck.
>>54206628
Lol, looks way better than my walkman does.
Brings back memories though
>>54206300
gat dam those look nice
>>54206371
Huh, didn't know about this, neat
I got a ps4 and a Sony flat-screen. Both are pretty good. Don't know about their phones but I know there audio products are amazing.
Sony is great at hardware, bad at software, and terrible when the lawyers from the media side of the company start making product decisions. Thanks for Cinavia, assholes.
>>54202318
Holy fuck this guy. I bought one of these new. Still use it, sounds great.
>>54201596
their phones are fine
except their policy about only one OS update
>>54208074
They get good rom support though
>>54208074
The Z1 was update all the way from 4.3 to 5.1.1
Meanwhile custom roms means it's probably gonna reach 8.0 or more
>>54202150
>Old trinitron
So much this. NTSC used to stand for "Never The Same Color" until Sony showed all of the idiots on the market how to make a color tube TV.
Shame they have fallen so far from grace. They don't even make TVs anymore. If only they would stop sending near prototypes to the market.
When will the Xperia Z5 go down in price? I've been waiting for the US Z5 to fall in price for 2 months now.
>>54205911
It really, really is though.
And most gamers don't even know it, nor will.
>>54210404
>Sony
>reasonable market decisions
Pick one
>>54201596
VAIO Z. It was always the pinnacle of whatever was available at that time.
You wanted a slim 13" laptop that weighed as little as possible while not being dysfunctional with various ports? VAIO Z.
Needed high resolution and colour accuracy? Here's a 1920x1080 screen that was 96% Adobe RGB gamut rivalling more expensive and larger workstation laptops while other 13" laptops had shit resolution/screens.
You want an SSD in your ultraportable laptop in 2012 and feel it's too slow? RAID-0 the SSDs that gave you 3/4 the performance of PCIe SSDs nowadays.
You want more processing power in that ultraportable? Have a 3612QM.
Battery life a concern? Here's a sheet battery option for extended run time.
They even managed to incorporate an early version of Light Peak with an external graphics card dock. Maybe if Sony wasn't retarded and killed off the project so early, it might've amounted to something.
I like some of Sony's audio products, particularly this disc player which is rare as fuck. Took me a few years to get one and looks and sounds super sexy.
Once in a while they manage to launch a great product, it goes unnoticed and they stop trying. Case in point.
Original Vaio laptops made by sony were good (Purple Vaios). Then they switched to ODMs and they fucked up badly. I used my 2001 sony vaio until november last year when it really crapped the bed and started BSOD'ing like crazy.
My Z3 compact and my BC PS3. Two of the most useful gadgets I've ever owned. Also, pic-related. Weird but surprisingly versatile little gadget.
I also like my Vita, even though it's woefully supported and has a bad storage scheme.
>>54202318
This kills the Sony
>>54205311
>VAIO Canvas Z
Looking this up now, it actually pretty damn neat.
>>54206063
nope sony inks are better, there was a huge accelerated aging experiment that came out of europe recently, sony were the most durable by far
most media were rendered unusable at 1/10th of the time it took for sony disks to produce errors, the only exceptions were panasonic and verbatmin
>>54201596
betamax
trinitron tv line
All hail the best boombox ever.
It's a Sony.
>>54206160
Failure rate is easy to get around. Just reball it.
>>54206319
You may notice that I stated that mine was reballed. I did it when I got a blinking red light on the PS3. Haven't had a problem since.
>>54206300
Mine isn't worth as much as yours, but it's the best TV I've ever seen at 300 bucks. It matches the look of my launch PS3 well, but there's no denying that yours looks way better, both aesthetically and on the actual screen, I'm sure.
>>54205911
The Vita was built to succeed. Too bad that Sony didn't actually care if it did. Those memory card prices are downright offensive, and the custom charging port didn't lend it any favors, either.
Still, I can't deny that the OLED screen makes the PS Classic games look better than I ever would have imagined.
>>54201596
Their mirrorless cameras.
NEX 5N is bae.
>>54212855
It's the best portable machine all around right now
Xperia Z3 and a Bravia I bought 5 years ago which is now in the kitchen.
Mirrorless Masterrace
>>54201596
walkmans were ok
I have a Vaio Flip
it has razor sharp edges that cut into your wrists as you type and the shittiest trackpad in the universe
pretty good otherwise though
