Sony Says Not Leaving U.S. Plasma TV Market
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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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Sony Corp.   said on  Wednesday it sees its electronics sales growth outpacing the  industry in the current fiscal year, fueled by demand for big  televisions and digital cameras, while a decline in component  pricing could benefit profits.
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Sony warns that it does not expect profits at its home electronics business to recover  in the normally busy Christmas season.
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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 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 Corp. (6758.T)  said on  Wednesday it sees its electronics sales growth outpacing the  industry in the current fiscal year, fueled by demand for big  televisions and digital cameras, while a decline in component  pricing could benefit profits.
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Sony Corp.&#39;s (6758.T) game unit said on  Thursday it plans to cut jobs in the United States, but the  scale and timing of the cut have not been decided.
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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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A REPORT IN the Japan Times which suggested that Sony is reducing its investment in plasma TVs and could exit it completely has been denied.
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Hanging stockings by the chimney with care? Retailers hope that St. Nicholas soon will be there &#151; to hang a 42-inch plasma-screen TV. As prices drop for high-end televisions, sales are leaping. Retailers expect to sell twice as many plasma-screen televisions and three times as many LCD televisions this year, according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
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The Panasonic 42-inch plasma high-definition television sold for an average of $1,762 at Circuit City in September. By October, it was $1,687. And the day after Thanksgiving, the price hit a temporary low of $1,199.
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MANHASSET, NY - Sony Corp. is considering leaving the plasma display market to focus on flat-panel liquid crystal (LCD) displays, according to several online reports.
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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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Sony has denied reports it is to cease making plasma televisions to concentrate instead solely upon LCD (liquid crystal display) models.
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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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JAPANESE giant Sony has denied a report it plans to withdraw from the plasma television business but said its priority in flat-panel TVs remains in liquid crystal display (LCD) sets.
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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.