The display industry is hard hit today with prices dropping and demand down. The companies that were planning to expand have killed those plans and some firms are looking to exit the market. Sony, Toshiba, and Hitachi have all finalized a plan that will see them merging their respective display units. The deal has now been finalized and will result in a new company.
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Yes, It Really Is Time For Sony to Ditch TVs
Over the last several months, there has been an increasingly bitter debate surrounding Sony’s decision to keep its television business. There are some folks that say the time has come for Sony, which has watched its market share continue to trail far behind the leaders of the pack, Samsung and Vizio, finally spin off the operation. Sony, on the other hand, has argued that such a strategy makes little sense, and what it needs to do now is hunker down and turn things around.
Oh, how wrong Sony is.
Sony announces new PlayStation Move bundles for next week
Sony announced two new hardware bundles for the PlayStation 3 that will be hitting retail stores next week just in time for the holiday season. With all the holiday feasting and gatherings coming up, the bundles will be arriving at a good time, packing in PlayStation Move accessories and titles that will get you dancing or playing sports in your living room to burn off all those excess calories.
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Standardization of 3D glasses begins with XPAND 3D initiative
This week we’re to understand from a press release sent out by the lot of them that Sony, Samsung, Panasonic, and slightly lesser known X6D Limited (of XPAND 3D fame) has started up its licensing program by the name of “Full HD 3D Glasses initiative” which is attempting to standardize the use of 3D active shutter glasses for consumers. It’s sort of like Foreigner but with less music and a whole lot more wild and crazy flippy flappy glasses to make your eyes feel like they’re in a whole new world, if you know what I mean. Does this seem like a good thing to you?
$4.1bn EMI sale tipped: Sony and Universal share spoils
Music label EMI has apparently been split up and sold off in chunks to Universal Music and Sony Music, insiders claim, in a $4.1bn deal that will likely be announced by the end of the weekend. Universal will grab EMI’s recorded-music group, spending $1.9bn in the process, the WSJ‘s sources reveal, while Sony will take the EMI music publishing group for a further $2.2bn. Assuming the deal does not fall through, Citigroup, current owners of EMI Group, is likely to exceed market estimates for the sale.
Sony unveils new UMD Passport for PS Vita
The launch of the PS Vita is getting close for Japan even though it won't hit the US until next year. Gamers that plan to purchase the Vita that have a big library of UMD games from their previous PSP will be able to sign up for the UMD Passport program. Before you get too excited, this isn't a way to port UMD games over to the PS Vita.
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Sony “four screen” revolution to preempt Apple Siri TV
Sony is working on its own revolution in the TV market, with engineers rushing to develop the company’s “four screen” strategy before Apple can release its own television set. “There’s a tremendous amount of R&D going into a different kind of TV set” CEO Howard Stringer told the WSJ, referring to the “four screen” potential once Sony controls not only its own TV, computer and tablet businesses, but Sony Ericsson after buying out its partner.
Sony accepting apps for PlayStation Suite dev program closed beta
We talked a bit about the PlayStation Suite program back in September when we first caught wind of the new dev program. The point of the PS Suite program is to allow the developers to make games and other apps that will run on the coming Vita portable console as well as Android devices. The PlayStation Suite SDK will allow the games to be played on Android devices that aren’t Sony branded as well.
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Sony unveils new WiFi packing WA700 and W700 digital frames
With the holiday season coming, the best gifts to give folks that you don’t see that often might be a digital photo frame. These are some of the most popular gifts each holiday season so naturally each year about his time new versions start to hit the market. Sony has unveiled a pair of new digital photo frames in Europe called the S-Frame WA700 and the W700.
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Android, iOS overtake Sony PSP, Nintendo DS in US portable game revenue
According to new data from mobile analytics firm Flurry, Apple's iOS and Google's Android devices have now taken command of the US portable gaming market. Together, they control 58 percent of the industry's revenue in 2011. That's a huge jump from just two years ago when the Nintendo DS held 70 percent of portable gaming revenue.
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Sony Music Unlimited gets major update for PS3
Sony released a major update today for its Music Unlimted service that streams music to PlayStation 3 consoles. The update brings an interface overhaul for the service on PS3, but more importantly, adds new music discovery capabilities as well as a "My Channels" feature that lets you customize your music listening experience.
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Sony unveils tiny 0.7-inch display with 720p resolution
In the DSLR world, we often get optical viewfinders that actually look through the lens to see what you are shooting. In the micro four thirds and similar range of cameras, you don’t get an optical viewfinder; instead, you get a little LCD in the viewfinder window if you get a viewfinder at all. Many just use Live View on the rear LCD.
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