RSSSony Battery Recall Woes Grow
By Ed Oswald | Published October 16, 2006, 1:21 PM
At least three companies are now indicating they may seek additional damages from Sony as part of the laptop battery recall that has rocked the Japanese electronics company, press reports indicate. Add to Sharp joining the recall plus another expanding its own, and Sony's problems continue to worsen.
Citing brand image and concerns over lost sales, Toshiba, Hitachi and Fujitsu all say they will review how the recall has affected them and may ask for further compensation above and beyond what they are receiving to pay for the replacement batteries.
While the only publicly released numbers on the cost of the recall from Sony claim that it would cost some $250 million, a number of recalls have been announced since then. Analysts expect the cost is now double what Sony has announced.
If all companies ask for compensation, the number could quickly approach $1 billion, putting a significant financial strain on Sony at a time when the company is attempting to launch its next-generation gaming console.
Sharp's recall is fairly small, only affecting about 28,000 units, as it is a relatively small manufacturer of laptops. However a larger manufacturer, Fujitsu, has expanded its recall by 51,000 to a total of 338,000 laptops.
Altogether, almost 8 million Sony-manufactured batteries have now been recalled.
this is too funny seems sony has to recall the batteries in there Laptops now
http://www.tgdaily.com/2.../17/sony_battery_recall/
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|My recently purchased HP Pavillion D5000v has a HP brand battery that states "cell origin Korea (N or S?)further processed in China. This battery get pretty hot and I have removed it from the Notebook. Any information on this battery? My homeowners insurance does not cover melt(ed) down laptops.
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|Where is their rootkit now?
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|Bye bye Sony, I'd say it was a fun ride but I'm still not over that spyware thing yet.
;-)
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|LOL. I am in total agreement. I'm sick off all the Sony only crap. I have convinced friend after friend to quit buying Sony.
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|dude, get over it already. somehow i doubt you had personal experience with their rootkit or now someone who did.
and if you did i hope it was a good lesson for you not to buy CD's. there is no good music made anymore and the classics you already have.
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|i am not over it and i have fixed well over 30 cases of people with the sony rootkit.
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|in this case please recieve my appologies.
yes, it is very bad but try to think little more positive -> job security :)
another positive outcome - some people will think twice now before buying a cd. i'm sure it will deter at least some.
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|You know, I am almost beginning to feel sorry for sony--but no, not yet. They have always charged twice as much IMO for their Laptop batteries as they should, and well, their TV's still cost more than everyone else it seems. Back when they were the best (1995 and before IMO), they were well-worth the extra money, but nowadays it seems sony is inferior in quality to most of the competition.
Of course, even those who aren't sony "die hard" fans may disagree with me on this. Perhaps I was just unfortunate in buying the dozen or so sony things in the late 90's that were inferior quality. Perhaps they just didn't like me personally, or maybe my house had an "anti-sony" system that would destroy all sony equipment withen two years of purchase. Still, to me sony has been hurting themselves since the mid 1990's when their CD Boomboxes started being less than reliable.
P.S: Yep, I still use that Sony CD boombox we got in Christmas of 1994 and it has no problems other than a dirty volume knob. Used it today in fact. I miss that, Sony...
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|same feelings here. but i never was a fan of any brand. i think brand loyalty is plain dumb - why limit yourself to just one manufacturer? but for now they still have very nice camcorders (just stay away from the cheap crap below 1000 and all DVD models) and the minidisk player i got in 2000 still works fine after all it gone through (very abusive military service together with me).
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|As Nelson Muntz would say...Ha! Ha!
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|Or quote comic book guy when bart tried to buy the radioactive man first issue for $20 (i believe)... "I laugh at you"
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|wow. The PS3 better be sucessful for Sony's sake or there Dead. Sony might not have much money left before this things over.
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|Hopefully Sony won't have to increase the price of the PS3. :-P
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|Sony will increase the price of something to offset the costs.
Bet on it!
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|Hehe, in order for Sony to offset this, they would have to double the price of the PS3 at launch.
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|you mean halve? meh neither will work
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|If they doubled the price of it not even the biggest Sony fanboys on earth would buy one. Well ok, Mark Gillespie would probably pay $1200 for a PS3 but otherwise they wouldn't sell any and they'd lose even more money. I don't see a way out for them, they're just screwed.
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|Too funny ;-)
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|"Mark Gillespie would probably pay $1200 for a PS3"
That would be like a $600 "bolt-on".
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|Personally I think Sony has done a horrible job with Blu-Ray at least with movies. The format might be ok for games but unless Sony and others start supporting both Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus surround sound Blu-Ray is doomed. Who in their right mind would want to buy a movie on a single layer Blu-Ray disc in old fashioned standard Dolby Digital surround only to have to buy that same movie later on a dual layer Blu-Ray disc to get superior uncompressed PCM sound or Dolby TrueHD sound that you should have had in the first place?
You're only getting half the high definition experience without Dolby TrueHD or Dolby Digital Plus. Price isn't the only reason that HD-DVD is winning the format war.
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|"Who in their right mind would want to buy a movie on a single layer Blu-Ray disc in old fashioned standard Dolby Digital surround only to have to buy that same movie later on a dual layer Blu-Ray disc to get superior uncompressed PCM sound or Dolby TrueHD sound that you should have had in the first place?"
how about someone who has absolutley no clue what you just said?
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|hahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah! so there!
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|People like you probably won't even buy a high definition player if you don't even know what Dolby TrueHD sound is. Most people who buy an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player will already own a surround sound system and pay very close attention to the audio formats their player supports.
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