On Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:18:39 -0700, William Sommerwerck wrote
(in message ):

If so, this is a break with Sony's policy. I had been told by the head of
their parts division that they never threw out parts.
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Oh, I never said they were going to THROW the parts AWAY. Just that they're
not going to go out of their way to maintain a large stock of parts anymore.

The theory is that they're going to start replacing more boards (if not
entire products) rather than do a lot of board-level repair anymore. Again,
this is all hearsay, and I haven't gotten confirmation about it. But it's in
keeping with Sony closing more and more of their factory-owned service
centers. For example, there's no more Sony consumer factory service in LA --
a city of 10 million people. Pretty startling.

--MFW