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Re: Casio-F-91W die-shot

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Post by myself248 »

3pac wrote: post #30
TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> F105W which is basically the same watch with a vastly improved backlight Can’t stress this enough. The F-91W is useless at night because the backlight brightness is terrible. The F105W has an indiglo-style “EL” light that is very effective. The two watches are nearly identical from an aesthetic perspective. The functions are identical as are the buttons.

Indiglo has good looks and function. What I dislike is that it requires a high-voltage driver. As tiny and low-current as that may be, it is electrically and even slightly acoustically noisy, and not something that belongs in a low-voltage wristwatch.

Why not? An incandescent backlight _physically gets hot_, I'd argue that has even less place in this application. It's just what they had at the time.

But in either case, it's perfectly safe. There's no way to touch either the hot parts or the high-voltage parts. And even if there was, the battery doesn't have enough oomph to do anything more than tingle once the prickly part was trying to drive something as massive as a fingertip.

I noticed the noise too, when I owned one, but I figure silencing it would've cost size, weight, and power. And the noise was never more than a curiosity, so I'll take it!

Re: Casio-F-91W die-shot

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Post by daviddaviddavid »

nickdothutton wrote: post #53

Casio is an under leveraged brand. One of the few that could, I think, be taken into more product areas than it is currently. There's brand equity there they are not fully leveraging.

Though not a move into a completely different product area, it's been interesting to see them step up their digital piano game. For a long time it seemed like Casio had a reputation for not making serious keyboards that you could gig on. But they have been churning out really nice keyboards recently - most notably, the Privia line. The ones I've played have a really nice feeling action, pro-level sounds and they're visually quite slick.

Re: Casio-F-91W die-shot

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Post by ajsnigrutin »

nickdothutton wrote: post #53

Casio is an under leveraged brand. One of the few that could, I think, be taken into more product areas than it is currently. There's brand equity there they are not fully leveraging.

But why?

Do we really want and need a Casio rice cooker?

And since they're specialists in cheap and reliable watches (and calculators and few more things), what would happen to their brand if the rice cookers were shitty?

Re: Casio-F-91W die-shot

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Post by TheRealPomax »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #63
nickdothutton wrote: post #53

Casio is an under leveraged brand. One of the few that could, I think, be taken into more product areas than it is currently. There's brand equity there they are not fully leveraging.

But why? Do we really want and need a Casio rice cooker? And since they're specialists in cheap and reliable watches (and calculators and few more things), what would happen to their brand if the rice cookers were shitty?

This is a somewhat weird: do you judge Sony headphones by how good Sony cameras are, too? Or Samsung phones on how good their TVs are? Because how good a Casio calculator or rice cooker is, is entirely independent of how good their watches are?

This seems to be backwards: you judge a brand based on how all its products perform, and if the balance tips towards "most are shit" then it's a shit brand. A brand making lots of things and only one shit (type of) thing, then it's "they're great! Except for their X, don't buy those".

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Post by leetrout »

daviddaviddavid wrote: post #62
nickdothutton wrote: post #53

Casio is an under leveraged brand. One of the few that could, I think, be taken into more product areas than it is currently. There's brand equity there they are not fully leveraging.

Though not a move into a completely different product area, it's been interesting to see them step up their digital piano game. For a long time it seemed like Casio had a reputation for not making serious keyboards that you could gig on. But they have been churning out really nice keyboards recently - most notably, the Privia line. The ones I've played have a really nice feeling action, pro-level sounds and they're v…

I was shopping around for a digital piano and the Privia does look really nice. I haven't experienced one in person yet and I am a bit scared to buy any keyboard or digital piano without trying the action.

Re: Casio-F-91W die-shot

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Post by once_inc »

_HMCB_ wrote: post #47

Looks like a city from overhead. Amazing.

"The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they traveled through the computer. Ships, motorcycles. With the circuits like freeways. I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see. And then, one day... i got in."

Re: Casio-F-91W die-shot

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Post by ajsnigrutin »

TheRealPomax wrote: post #64
ajsnigrutin wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But why? Do we really want and need a Casio rice cooker? And since they're specialists in cheap and reliable watches (and calculators and few more things), what would happen to their brand if the rice cookers were shitty?

This is a somewhat weird: do you judge Sony headphones by how good Sony cameras are, too? Or Samsung phones on how good their TVs are? Because how good a Casio calculator or rice cooker is, is entirely independent of how good their watches are? This seems to be backwards: you judge a brand based on how all its products perform, and if the balance tips towards "most are shit" then it's a shit brand. A brand making lot…

Well.. yeah. If you bough a samsung phone, and it was full of shitty adware and preinstalled apps, would you expect their tablets, smart tvs and fridges to be any different? And are they?
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