larryepage wrote:
Be prepared for a shock. When my local repair shop was still in business, they were an authorized Sony repair station. They could only buy subassemblies, not parts from Sony. Made most repairs cost 3-4x what would have been expected. His explanation was that as a consumer products company, Sony wanted to push people to buy new instead of repair.
Please let us know whether you find that to still be the case.
There is a thread on here about Sony replacing a damaged LCD screen on an A1 which took a tumble at the Olympics.