Sony Pictures sets up operation in China
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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.
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Sony Corp  said on Wednesday it will sell its microchip production facilities in western Japan to Toshiba Corp  for 90 billion yen ($835 million), in their latest move to focus on their core businesses.
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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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Announcing it may soon compete directly with Apple's iPods and iTunes, Sony says it's looking into producing its own movie download service and products.
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China's top electronics makers on Wednesday unveiled dozens of video players made with a homegrown DVD format in a campaign to promote a Chinese alternative to foreign technology.
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Sony Corp. will begin selling its first high-definition video camcorder in Japan on Oct. 15, and worldwide by the end of the year, the company said in an announcement Tuesday.
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The China-specific online video gaming host is set to become a multigame operation.
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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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Global electronics giant Sony will launch its popular projection televisions with large LCD screens in China early next year, a company official said.
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BEIJING -- China's top electronics makers on Wednesday unveiled dozens of video players made with a homegrown DVD format in a campaign to promote a Chinese alternative to foreign technology.
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A consortium led by Japan&#39;s Sony Corporation has bought the Hollywood MGM Studio to mine MGM&#39;s lucrative library for the booming DVD market.
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The camera company plans to shift its remaining digital camera production to China and cut an unspecified number of jobs.
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CHIBA, JAPAN -- Sony will begin selling in Japan in November a combination personal computer and video server that can record up to seven channels of television simultaneously, it said at the Ceatec 2004 exhibition here.
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Sony Corp. is to launch two models of  high-definition camcorders that record images onto DVD discs  and hard disk drives (HDDs), the first camcorder maker to offer  such products, the company said on Wednesday.
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Sony will be taking over United Artists, a brand name with a long history and a certain cachet in the movie business.
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EA, the world's biggest computer games firm, is setting up a studio in China to push online games.
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Sony Corp  said it would launch a  new digital single lens reflex camera for advanced users in  November, broadening its product lineup in a move to take on  industry leaders Canon Inc  and Nikon Corp .