Sony becomes latest to quit rear-projection TVs
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Sony Corp said on Thursday it would stop  making rear-projection televisions, becoming the latest company  to distance itself from a technology once seen as a promising  rival of LCD and plasma displays in the flat-TV market.
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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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RIP RPT Sony has decided to drop its rear-projection TV business worldwide in order to focus instead on two flat-panel technologies - liquid crystal display (LCD) and organic light-emitting diode (OLED).â¦
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Philips   has quietly  dropped its advanced, blinking fluorescent backlights for flat  televisions, and will instead focus on LED backlights which are  smaller, the Dutch electronics group said on Monday.
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Sony denied a newspaper report on Monday that it would quit the plasma television business and focus its efforts in the flat-screen TV market on liquid crystal display and
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In another sign that the hype is off the advanced television market, Intel said Thursday that it is scrapping plans to build microdisplay chips for rear-projection televisions.
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The chip in Sony's initial PS3 versions that enables backward compatibility with older PlayStation games, called the "Emotion Engine," will be eliminated from the structure of new 80GB units, which go on sale in August.
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Toshiba plans to stop manufacturing and selling plasma display panel (PDP) TVs in Japan by next summer, and then discontinue the products in other markets after that.
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Sony&#39;s music unit is abandoning its CDs that use built-in technology that limits copying them, after pushing the program for two years.
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Japan's Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said on  Tuesday it would stop promoting its HD DVD format for the  next-generation DVD after losing the support of key studios and  retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed by Sony Corp  (6758.T).
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The decision puts another roadblock into Canon's effort to come out with a new style of flat screen TVs.
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TOKYO, Sep 08, 2004 (AFX-UK via COMTEX) -- Sony Corp will launch its popular projection televisions with large liquid crystal display (LCD) screens in China early next year, a company spokeswoman said.
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LG.Philips LCD is changing its name to LG Display, after Philips Electronics reduced its stake in the company.
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TOKYO: Sony said on Monday it would continue to make and sell plasma televisions, denying a newspaper report it would exit the business and focus its efforts on liquid crystal display and rear-projection models.
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TOKYO  - Sony Corp. plans to withdraw from the plasma television business as early as the first half of 2005, a news report said.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) plans to phase out the cut-priced $499 model of its PlayStation 3 video game machine, leaving only a higher capacity $599 model for sale in the United States, the company said on Monday.
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Global electronics giant Sony will launch its popular projection televisions with large LCD screens in China early next year, a company official said.