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The television unit of Japan&#39;s Sony Corp. and a division of China Film Group on Wednesday unveiled a joint venture to make Chinese-language TV shows under a new Chinese law that allows such co-ventures.
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TOKYO : Japan&#39;s top automaker Toyota on Monday said it has launched its first production and sales firm in China&#39;s Guangdong Province.
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Japan's Sony Corp, reeling from a string of production problems, has kicked off its bid for industry dominance in high-definition DVDs with a planned December launch of its new Blu-ray machine.
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Sony 6758.T, which rivals Matsushita  6752.T as the world's top consumer electronics maker, should  see sales in China climb by about half in the fiscal year  ending March 2005, its country chief said on Tuesday.
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Sony will release a version of its LocationFree TV system on December 1 in Japan with support for high-definition.
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Japan's JVC will launch new flat-panel LCD TVs in the U.S. this year that it says are the world's thinnest.
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"Nanking," a U.S.-made film documenting eyewitness accounts of atrocities committed by Japanese troops in China during World War Two, opened in Beijing on Tuesday, as the two countries struggle to mend strained ties.
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(InfoWorld) - Sony is aggressively promoting high-definition televisions (HDTVs) to consumers and soon it will have a range of digital still cameras to match. Many of the company'sÂ new Cybershot cameras, which will hit global markets in March and April, offer an output for HDTVs. Most current digital cameras support the ability to view pictures on a television set, but this is almost always at standard definition, which is close to VGA resolution of 640 pixels by 480 pixels. More often than not, the original image is much higher quality, so a better image could be displayed on an HDTV if the camera were capable of generating such a video image. That's what Sony has enabled its new Cybershot cameras to do. "We are strongly promoting the importance of high-definition quality," said Kiyoshi Shikano, corporate senior vice president of Sony Marketing (Japan) at a Tokyo news conference Wednesday. "Here in Japan penetration of HDTV is going up every day. It's now almost at 30 percent of households so because of that we're encouraging people to watch digital still camera pictures at the level of high-definition rather than standard level." An additional cable will be required for the high-definition connection. The VMC-MHC1 cable will go on sale on March 9 in Japan for Â¥4,935 ($41) and will connect a Cybershot to a component level input on a television. It can also connect the CSS-HD1 docking unit to a television set. While in the dock the battery in the camera can also be recharged. The HDTV output is available on the DSC-T100, T20, W200, W90, W80, H7 and H9 models. The flagship model of the range is the T100, which combines a slim body with an optical 5X zoom and 8.1-megapixel class image sensor. It has a 3-inch display and will be available in Japan and the U.S. in March for about Â¥50,000 and about $400, respectively. Â
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JVC (6792.T) on Sunday unveiled an  LCD TV less than 3 inches thick, calling it the world's  thinnest flat-screen television, as the Consumer Electronics  Show began.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) said on Wednesday it  will launch a DVD recorder using Blu-ray technology by the end  of the year in Japan, fortifying its lineup of high-definition  optical disc products.
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The television unit of Japan's Sony Corp and a division of China Film Group on Wednesday unveiled a joint venture to make Chinese language TV shows under a new Chinese law that allows such co-ventures.
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Japanese electronics makers JVC   and Funai Electric Co Ltd  will jointly develop and  supply LCD televisions, the latest move as the sector  consolidates in quest of economies of scale.
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(InfoWorld) - Sony plans to launch an online video download service next year, according to reports in both the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal newspapers. The service has been developed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and will allow users to download movies via a computer and store them on MemoryStick memory cards for viewing on the PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld games device, said the Financial Times. Amazon.com and existing movie download sites like Movielink and CinemaNow are in talks with Sony to use the service, which will launch in the first quarter of 2007, the newspaper reported in its online edition. Sony is also working on a service that would allow downloads directly to the PSP, said The Wall Street Journal's online edition. Spokespersons for both Sony and Sony Computer Entertainment in Tokyo deferred requests for comment to the company's U.S. offices, which were closed. Sony has already tried to expand the PlayStation Portable's uses beyond gaming to movies. It began offering movies on the small discs used by the PSP but sales have been low and the movies never caught on among many users. The PlayStation Portable was launched in late 2004 and initially enjoyed strong sales. By the end of March 2005 shipments had reached 3 million units and jumped to over 14 million units in the year from April 2005. But things soon started going wrong for the new device and sales began dropping. In the current year, from April 2006 to March 2007, Sony initially expected sales to drop to 12 million units but in October revised its forecast to 9 million units. The successful launch of a movie download service could help flagging sales of PSP hardware and give Sony something to begin to challenge Apple Computer's iTunes Store, where iPod owners can download video clips, TV shows and some movies. Sony doesn't offer a video version of its Walkman music player leaving it unable to compete with Apple on the video front.
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Japan's Sony Corp  unveiled 15  new flat TVs and a new remote control for the domestic market  on Wednesday, as a part of a world-wide effort to win back  market share during the year-end shopping season.
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Electronics conglomerate Sony Corp. unveiled eight new flat-screen televisions on Thursday in a product push it hopes will help it secure a leading 35 percent of the domestic market in the key month of December.
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Less than a month after the troubled launch of its PlayStation 3, Sony has rolled out its new high definition DVD recorder in Japan as it struggles to restore its tarnished reputation.
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Sony Pictures has set up a joint venture television and film co-production unit in China, taking advantage of a loosening of restrictions on the tightly controlled industry.