Sony Should Say Sayonara
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Reuters reported on Monday that Japanese electronics titan Sony (NYSE: SNE) may pull out of the market for plasma flat-panel television sets by as early as spring 2005.
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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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com October 15, 2004, 10:55 AM PT. Japanese camera giant Olympus this week unveiled a portable hard drive music player that can also function as a camera.
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IF YOU are heading for Japan in December, here&#39;s something that you may want to include in your shopping list. Sony&#39;s PlayStation Portable, which will mark the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant&#39;s
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Sony is considering making digital music devices that play MP3 song files, the consumer electronics group said yesterday. The move could mean a major shift for the company as the creator of the Walkman has
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Sony says it is considering the company a rumble-enabled PS3 controller.
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Con molta probabilitÃ  il formato MP3 sarÃ  supportato dai player Sony. Ad anticipare la notizia Ã¨ stata la stessa Sony per mezzo di un proprio portavoce francese. Il colosso giapponese, pur ritenendo il
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DOA developer head ranks the PS3 alongside microwaves, cookers and TV sets, it would seem... 14:21 Oh, how we enjoy a good old dig from the big boys.
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Square Enix, the world&#39;s biggest maker of role-playing computer games, and rivals including Koei Co. are counting on the new consoles from Japan&#39;s Sony Corp.
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Sony to support MP3 tunes to silence iPod fans Indian Express
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Price cuts, exclusive games and a more integrated mobile strategy would help Things are looking tough for Sony: redundancies, missed shipment targets and poor financial results. So what's a giant mega-corporation to do? Take advice from bloggers, of course...â¦
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Sony's financial unit will be allowed to list on the Tokyo Stock Exchange beginning Oct. 11 in an offering worth up to $3.12 billion, the company said Tuesday.
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CES 2005 Better format because... Sony says so?
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Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony Corp. (SNE) plans to begin selling a camcorder designed for consumers that takes video at digital high-definition quality and is being priced at about $3,600...
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Music and movie joy Sony has confirmed that the next release of the PlayStation 3 firmware, version 1.9, will be available in the US "in the next few days". It's already been released to Japanese console owners, and will almost certainly come to Europe shortly.â¦
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Sony will come out with a new PSP in a couple of months -- one that is slimmer and lighter. Sound familiar?
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The writing's on the flat screen: Sony should change the channel.