Notice to Owners of Sony’s Digital Still Camera

2010-06-04

Termination of free out of warranty repair of the CCD image sensor

Thank you for your continued interest in Sony products.

Sony announced the extended warranty of the CCD image sensor on applicable Sony products on November 24, 2006 under “Notice to Owners for Sony Digital Still Cameras”.

We will terminate the free out of warranty repair for the following models on the dates described below. After which, Sony will accept repair of the CCD of applicable products based on Sony service centre terms and conditions for repair.

[Affected models whose extended warranty of the CCD image sensor will be terminated on November 30, 2010]
<Digital Still Camera>
● DSC-F717  ● DSC-F88  ● DSC-M1  ● DSC-T1  ● DSC-T11
● DSC-U40    ● DSC-U50  

[Affected models whose extended warranty of the CCD image sensor will be terminated on May 31, 2011]
<Digital Still Camera>
● DSC-T3  ● DSC-T33

If you would like to have applicable Sony products checked, or for further information on relevant products and the repair service, please contact your local service centre. A list of the Sony service centres can be found in the Service Centres page.

Thank you for your understanding of this situation.

(Privacy policy)
Personal information, such as your name, mailing address and/or telephone number, provided to the Sony service centre shall be kept and used by Sony only for responding to your inquiries related to this announcement, the free repair service mentioned in this announcement and other related services. In certain cases, your personal information may be given to third-party companies to whom Sony has consigned certain elements of such service. In this event, Sony will ensure that such third-party companies abide by the same strict guidelines with regard to the use, storage and disposal of your personal information.

*Please contact your local Sony service centre if you wish to inquire, modify, erase or suspend use of your personal information provided in connection with this announcement.  (Please be advised that in the case of erasing or suspending use of your personal information, Sony might not be able to provide appropriate services in accordance with the purpose of usage mentioned above.)