Something has happened to Sony quality control. For those following news you would know that they had problems with their (laptop) batteries and camera sensors (CCD).
Camera sensor problems: http://www.imaging-resource.com/badccds.html
Battery recalls? Search: “sony battery recall” on google or some other seach engines
Well, with their Playstation 3 coming up, lets hope they can recover their losses . Check out: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Japan-PlayStation-3.html. It might be game over for Sony if there is (unlikely) a product defect with the playstation or if they lose the blu-ray format war.
Update (24th November 2006): More problems for Sony. There seem to be problems with their digital cameras too! Apparently, it might be that overheating of the sensor would cause the LCD to fail.
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