Sony plans new LCD TV models in Japan
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) said on Wednesday it  will launch nine new LCD TV models in Japan in the next few  months including a 52-inch high-definition set, aiming at  demand in the critical year-end holiday shopping season.
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Sony is focusing its TV business strategy on liquid-crystal displays and rear-projection television sets, but will continue to assemble and sell plasma display sets for now, the company said Monday.
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Sony is dropping its money-losing rear-projection TV business worldwide to focus on two flat panel technologies Â liquid crystal display and organic light-emitting diode, the company said Thursday.
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Company plans to supply a "unique series of models" of LCD TVs to big box retailers for availability in the next 60 days.
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TOKYO - Japan&#39;s Sony Corp. will begin selling a computer and home-server system in Japan with 1,000 gigabytes of hard-drive storage â-nough to record six TV channels for a week straight â - company said.
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Japan's Sharp Corp  on Thursday  unveiled a prototype of what it called the world's thinnest LCD  TV with a main display section only 20 mm thick.
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By Yuri Kageyama Associated Press  TOKYO -- In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all -- a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full- color video.  Sony Corp.
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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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(InfoWorld) - Even if you bought a TV in the last several months you may already feel like it's out of date. Your shiny new flat-screen arrives, you hook it up to the antenna and the first thing you see is a commercial for a bigger, better model. It might even have a cheaper price. It's the way things seem to work these days in the world of TVs. Things aren't likely to change any time soon. The latest buzz is around "100Hz" or "120Hz" technology, which relates to how often the image on the screen is refreshed or redrawn. The technology is already appearing in TVs, and if you haven't seen promotional stickers for it yet you probably will soon. Most TV sets today refresh the picture either 50 times per second (50Hz) or 60 times per second (60Hz) depending where in the world you live (different regions use different color formatting.) That rate is fine for most images, but when it comes to fast moving shows like sports events the images can appear blurry on an LCD (liquid crystal display) TV. Doubling the rate at which images are displayed, to 100 or 120 frames per second, makes for a better, more high-definition picture. The need to improve LCD TVs has been especially acute because their chief competitor, PDP (plasma display panel) TVs, don't have the same blurring problem. Compounding the issue is that screen sizes are getting bigger, so any imperfections are more noticeable, said Mina Naito, a spokeswoman for Sony. PDP makers have trumpeted their advantage for some time, but things may be about to change. Compared to previous LCD panels, the new 100Hz and 120Hz models are "a big improvement," said Hisakazu Torii, a TV industry analyst with DisplaySearch in Tokyo. Prototype panels with the faster refresh rate began appearing last year. At the FPD International 2006 show in Yokohama in October, Samsung ElectronicsÂ demonstrated images and text scrolling across just such a panel, and they appeared to move more smoothly than on existing LCD TVs. Then at theÂ Consumer Electronics ShowÂ in Las Vegas in January, Sony announced a 120Hz model with the Samsung screen for the U.S. market. The 70-inch LCD TV is launched this month and carries the hefty price of $33,000. Samsung plans a 70-inch set, also based on the Samsung panel, which will go on sale in the first half of this year. Competitors including Victor Co. of Japan (JVC) and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) are also promoting 120Hz sets in Japan. The latest company to join the party isÂ Sharp, which last week said it would put five sets in its Aquos range on sale in Japan from March. The price runs from Â¥500,000 for a 42-inch model to Â¥1 million for a 65-inch model.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T) said on  Tuesday it would launch its Blu-ray high-definition optical  disc recorder in Japan in December with an expected price tag  of around 300,000 yen ($2,550) for a model with a 500-gigabyte  hard disk drive.
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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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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. (6758.T) on Wednesday said it had no plans to abandon the market for plasma-screen television sets in the United States in the near term, though it did not say specifically what its intentions were internationally.
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Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.  (6752.T) said on Wednesday it will launch four new models of  high-definition plasma TVs, including the world's largest with  a 103-inch panel, challenging LCD TVs' lead in offering higher  resolution images.
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Joint Sony-Samsung factory in South Korea uses the latest production technology to make less-expensive LCD TV panels.
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TOKYO -- In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all _ a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.
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Swedish telecom equipment maker  Ericsson (ERICb.ST) and Japan's electronics giant Sony (6758.T)  will expand their cooperation beyond cell phones to mobile and  broadband TV, an Ericsson official said on Thursday.