Sony Ranked Top in 2006 LCD TV Shipments
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Sony hit the top of the LCD TV market last year for the first time, says study.
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TOKYO - Sony Corp is attempting to claw back market share of the domestic flat-panel TV market with the launch of eight new televisions.
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JAPANESE electronics giant Sony has reported a quarterly profit gain thanks to the hit movie Spider-Man 2, while rival Matsushita, owner of the Panasonic and Technics brands, benefited from bumper sales of flat-screen TVs.
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Sony said its profit rose in the final three months of 2007, helped by robust sales of televisions and computer games.
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Soaring sales of flat-panel televisions this holiday are expected to spark one of tech's toughest environmental challenges: disposing of millions of old, toxic TVs. Almost 4 million flat-panel TVs are expected to be sold worldwide this year, says researcher DisplaySearch.
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TAIPEI/TOKYO  - AU Optronics Corp. 2409.TW   AUO.N, the world's third-biggest flat panel maker, will start   shipping two models of 32-inch flat screen TV panels to Sony   Corp. 6758.T this month, the Economic Daily said on Tuesday.
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Liquid Crystal Displays continue to dominate the television market. That hasnât stopped Panasonic and Sony from trying to develop other display technologies.
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Sony's game unit said Monday that it had sold 1.2 million PlayStation 3 video game consoles in North America during the key year-end holiday shopping season.
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Sony Corp sold 1.2 million PlayStation 3 video game consoles in North America over the holiday season, the company said on Sunday.
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MUMBAI: Electronics and entertainment major Sony has reported a 61 per cent increase in net profit for the second quarter ended 30 September.. Sony&#39;s net income rose to 53.2 billion yen ($500 million) from
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(InfoWorld) - Sony is confident it will hit shipment targets for its recently launched PlayStation 3 game console, its president said Thursday. Prior to theÂ launch of the PS3 in November, Sony said it would ship 2 million consoles this year in Japan and the U.S. and 6 million by the end of its financial year in March 2007. Those targets remain achievable and won't be changed, said Ryoji Chubachi, Sony president and chief executive officer of the electronics business, in a briefing with reporters at its Tokyo headquarters. "With the PS3 the bottleneck has been availability of blue lasers but now production of those has been launched in volume," he said. "We did take time preparing ourselves but as of today we have reached our target production rate. Based on projections for this year we will reach [the PS3 shipment targets]." The PlayStation 3 was launched in Japan on Nov. 11 and in North America, Hong Kong and Taiwan on Nov. 17. Around 81,639 PlayStation 3 consoles were sold over the launch weekend in Japan, according to market data from Media Create. Demand for the console vastly outstripped supply but sales have dropped each week since the launch due to scarcity, according to the figures. Media Create estimates 42,099 units were sold in the first full week of sales and then 32,622 units in the week from Nov. 20 to Nov. 27. For the following week, the latest for which data is available, sales were lower still at 31,436 units, the company estimated. The PlayStation 3 had been due to launch in Europe in November but the laser shortage meant Sony postponed the European launch until March 2007. That date remains unchanged, said Chubachi. The executive also said that Sony will keep looking at ways of reducing the manufacturing cost of the console so that it can turn a profit on the PS3 as quickly as possible. Traditionally, game console makers have sold their machines at cost or a loss and then relied on game software sales to make a profit. In the case of the PS3, production costs are high and losses run at between $240 and $305 per console sold, according to a parts breakdown by iSuppli Corp. One of the reasons the PS3 is relatively expensive is the Cell processor that sits at its heart.Â Developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM, the chip is one of the most powerful yet developed and last year Sony created a team to look at how to use the chip in applications other than gaming. Chubachi said the team remains focused on this task but he declined to detail when the Cell might find its way into a television or other consumer electronics product.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world's largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) panels, begins producing seven-inch LCDs in September to take the lead in the WVGA display market for mobile devices.
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Sony Corp sold 1.2 million  PlayStation 3 video game consoles in North America over the  holiday season, the company said on Sunday.
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Sony Pictures Entertainment's movie  ticket sales reached $1.577 billion at domestic box offices in  2006, beating an industry record of $1.573 billion set by the  studio in 2002, a company spokesman said on Monday.
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Sharp Corp. 6753.T said on Thursday it   would globally offer six new liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs   toward the year-end shopping season, stoking white-hot   competition further in the $45 billion LCD TV market.
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Sony has not decided to terminate the business, and it will continue manufacturing and selling plasma display panel TVs, a Sony spokesman said.
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Sony said its profit rose in the final three months of 2007, aided by robust sales of televisions and computer games.