Are we now seeing the end of the end of SONY in the TV consumer market?

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http://www.digitaltrends.COM/home-theater/sony-abandons-oled-tv-for-the-consumer-market/

QUOTE


Sony abandons OLED TV for the consumer market

January 7, 2012 By Mike Flacy

According to a report in the Daily Yomiuri Online, Sony is halting development
of organic electroluminescence display panels for consumers. While Sony will
continue selling OLED panels to corporate clients, the television manufacturer
will only create LED and LCD panels for the mass market.

UNQUOTE

Just two weeks ago SONY sold off its 50% share of a joint LCD manufacturing
agreement with Samsung since 2004 to Samsung for 1.08 trillion won, or
USD 935 million.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/technology/sony-sells-stake-in-lcd-panel-joint-venture.html

QUOTE

Last month, Sony warned that it would lose money for its fourth consecutive fiscal year,
which ends next March. Sony’s television unit alone accounts for billions of yen in losses.

UNQUOTE

OLED TV was according to the pundits, SONY's last hope for a future resurgence in
the consumer TV market, so the sign is that SONY has now given up and will exit
the field, as did its rival Pioneer a few years earlier, and as did Philips last
year.

It is important to note that this is NOT the end for OLED TV as both LG and Samsung
are unveiling new consumer OLED TVs at CES and plan to put them on sale in the
US market sometime late summer 2012.

Hmm, well back in the day of Tubes, although Sony stuck with its Trinitron,
i gather it was not really an edge later in its usage, and most other
manufacturers of tvs tended to buy in tubes after all.
The problem as always with all of this specialisation is what happens if a
plant gets trashed. its not just that company who suffers.
Brian

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"J G Miller" wrote in message
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Are we now seeing the end of the end of SONY in the TV consumer market?

From

http://www.digitaltrends.COM/home-theater/sony-abandons-oled-tv-for-the-consumer-market/

QUOTE


Sony abandons OLED TV for the consumer market

January 7, 2012 By Mike Flacy

According to a report in the Daily Yomiuri Online, Sony is halting
development
of organic electroluminescence display panels for consumers. While Sony
will
continue selling OLED panels to corporate clients, the television
manufacturer
will only create LED and LCD panels for the mass market.

UNQUOTE

Just two weeks ago SONY sold off its 50% share of a joint LCD
manufacturing
agreement with Samsung since 2004 to Samsung for 1.08 trillion won, or
USD 935 million.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/technology/sony-sells-stake-in-lcd-panel-joint-venture.html

QUOTE

Last month, Sony warned that it would lose money for its fourth
consecutive fiscal year,
which ends next March. Sony's television unit alone accounts for billions
of yen in losses.

UNQUOTE

OLED TV was according to the pundits, SONY's last hope for a future
resurgence in
the consumer TV market, so the sign is that SONY has now given up and will
exit
the field, as did its rival Pioneer a few years earlier, and as did
Philips last
year.

It is important to note that this is NOT the end for OLED TV as both LG
and Samsung
are unveiling new consumer OLED TVs at CES and plan to put them on sale in
the
US market sometime late summer 2012.

"J G Miller" wrote in message
...

Are we now seeing the end of the end of SONY in the TV consumer market?

From

http://www.digitaltrends.COM/home-theater/sony-abandons-oled-tv-for-the-consumer-market/

QUOTE


Sony abandons OLED TV for the consumer market

January 7, 2012 By Mike Flacy

According to a report in the Daily Yomiuri Online, Sony is halting
development
of organic electroluminescence display panels for consumers. While Sony
will
continue selling OLED panels to corporate clients, the television
manufacturer
will only create LED and LCD panels for the mass market.

UNQUOTE

Just two weeks ago SONY sold off its 50% share of a joint LCD
manufacturing
agreement with Samsung since 2004 to Samsung for 1.08 trillion won, or
USD 935 million.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/technology/sony-sells-stake-in-lcd-panel-joint-venture.html

QUOTE

Last month, Sony warned that it would lose money for its fourth
consecutive fiscal year,
which ends next March. Sony’s television unit alone accounts for billions
of yen in losses.

UNQUOTE

OLED TV was according to the pundits, SONY's last hope for a future
resurgence in
the consumer TV market, so the sign is that SONY has now given up and will
exit
the field, as did its rival Pioneer a few years earlier, and as did
Philips last
year.

It is important to note that this is NOT the end for OLED TV as both LG
and Samsung
are unveiling new consumer OLED TVs at CES and plan to put them on sale in
the
US market sometime late summer 2012.

The crystal LCD tele from Sony looks promising though. Miniature inorganic
LEDs, 3 for each pixel. Might take a while before it's good enough but the
review I read from CES implied it was already awesome.

--

WCZ

"J G Miller" wrote in message
...

Are we now seeing the end of the end of SONY in the TV consumer market?

From

http://www.digitaltrends.COM/home-theater/sony-abandons-oled-tv-for-the-consumer-market/

QUOTE


Sony abandons OLED TV for the consumer market

January 7, 2012 By Mike Flacy

According to a report in the Daily Yomiuri Online, Sony is halting
development
of organic electroluminescence display panels for consumers. While Sony
will
continue selling OLED panels to corporate clients, the television
manufacturer
will only create LED and LCD panels for the mass market.

UNQUOTE

Just two weeks ago SONY sold off its 50% share of a joint LCD
manufacturing
agreement with Samsung since 2004 to Samsung for 1.08 trillion won, or
USD 935 million.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/technology/sony-sells-stake-in-lcd-panel-joint-venture.html

QUOTE

Last month, Sony warned that it would lose money for its fourth
consecutive fiscal year,
which ends next March. Sony’s television unit alone accounts for billions
of yen in losses.

UNQUOTE

OLED TV was according to the pundits, SONY's last hope for a future
resurgence in
the consumer TV market, so the sign is that SONY has now given up and will
exit
the field, as did its rival Pioneer a few years earlier, and as did
Philips last
year.

It is important to note that this is NOT the end for OLED TV as both LG
and Samsung
are unveiling new consumer OLED TVs at CES and plan to put them on sale in
the
US market sometime late summer 2012.

Karma, the Japanese destroyed the British and European TV industries, now
they're the ones being trashed by the Koreans, who in turn will be trashed
by the Chinese...

On Wednesday, January 11th, 2012, at 08:52:39h +0000, WCZ wrote:

The crystal LCD tele from Sony looks promising though.

Thanks for mentioning this as I had not heard of "crystal LCD" before.

But a web search reveals that Dell have had a crystal LCD monitor on sale
since early 2008.

http://gizmodo.COM/339805/ultra+pretty-dell-crystal-lcd-monitor-now-available

Miniature inorganic LEDs, 3 for each pixel.

More details and video at

http://mashable.COM/2012/01/10/sony-crystal-lcd/

But which technology offers the best quality at an affordable price for
the home consumer for ultra-HD, crystal LCD or laser?

On Wednesday, January 11th, 2012, at 16:16:57h +0000, J G Miller wrote:

But which technology offers the best quality at an affordable price for
the home consumer for ultra-HD, crystal LCD or laser?

typographical error alert ^

for ultra-HD: crystal LCD or laser?

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J G Miller wrote:
On Wednesday, January 11th, 2012, at 08:52:39h +0000, WCZ wrote:

The crystal LCD tele from Sony looks promising though.

Thanks for mentioning this as I had not heard of "crystal LCD" before.

But a web search reveals that Dell have had a crystal LCD monitor on sale
since early 2008.

http://gizmodo.COM/339805/ultra+pretty-dell-crystal-lcd-monitor-now-available

Miniature inorganic LEDs, 3 for each pixel.

More details and video at

http://mashable.COM/2012/01/10/sony-crystal-lcd/

But which technology offers the best quality at an affordable price for
the home consumer for ultra-HD, crystal LCD or laser?

To a certain extent it all depends on which one catches on. Look at
Betamax and VHS, I always felt that Betamax was better quality and also
more compact but VHS won out in the end.

--
David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com

J G Miller wrote:
Are we now seeing the end of the end of SONY in the TV consumer market?

From

http://www.digitaltrends.COM/home-theater/sony-abandons-oled-tv-for-the-consumer-market/

QUOTE


Sony abandons OLED TV for the consumer market

January 7, 2012 By Mike Flacy

According to a report in the Daily Yomiuri Online, Sony is halting development
of organic electroluminescence display panels for consumers. While Sony will
continue selling OLED panels to corporate clients, the television manufacturer
will only create LED and LCD panels for the mass market.

UNQUOTE

Just two weeks ago SONY sold off its 50% share of a joint LCD manufacturing
agreement with Samsung since 2004 to Samsung for 1.08 trillion won, or
USD 935 million.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/technology/sony-sells-stake-in-lcd-panel-joint-venture.html

QUOTE

Last month, Sony warned that it would lose money for its fourth consecutive fiscal year,
which ends next March. Sony’s television unit alone accounts for billions of yen in losses.

UNQUOTE

OLED TV was according to the pundits, SONY's last hope for a future resurgence in
the consumer TV market, so the sign is that SONY has now given up and will exit
the field, as did its rival Pioneer a few years earlier, and as did Philips last
year.

It is important to note that this is NOT the end for OLED TV as both LG and Samsung
are unveiling new consumer OLED TVs at CES and plan to put them on sale in the
US market sometime late summer 2012.

They now seem to be working on, Inorganic LED displays.
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/1...led_tv_at_ces/

--
Adrian

"WCZ" wrote:

The crystal LCD tele from Sony looks promising though. Miniature inorganic
LEDs, 3 for each pixel. Might take a while before it's good enough but the
review I read from CES implied it was already awesome.

Crystal... LCD?! Well, that is the title of the Mashable article. But...

http://mashable.com/2012/01/10/sony-crystal-lcd/

In the video, the unit itself is marked as "Crystal LED Display", and the
guy says: "...what we have here is a self-emissive display... clusters of
LEDs make up the image; there's no backlight; there's no LCD layer; the
LEDs directly make up the image..."

"David Kennedy" wrote
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o.uk...
J G Miller wrote:
On Wednesday, January 11th, 2012, at 08:52:39h +0000, WCZ
wrote:

The crystal LCD tele from Sony looks promising though.

Thanks for mentioning this as I had not heard of "crystal LCD"
before.

But a web search reveals that Dell have had a crystal LCD
monitor on sale
since early 2008.

http://gizmodo.COM/339805/ultra+pretty-dell-crystal-lcd-monitor-now-available

Miniature inorganic LEDs, 3 for each pixel.

More details and video at

http://mashable.COM/2012/01/10/sony-crystal-lcd/

But which technology offers the best quality at an affordable
price for
the home consumer for ultra-HD, crystal LCD or laser?

To a certain extent it all depends on which one catches on.
Look at Betamax and VHS, I always felt that Betamax was better
quality and also more compact but VHS won out in the end.

--
David Kennedy

http://www.anindianinexile.com



Betamax was certainly better than VHS - indeed a version of it is
still widely used in the broadcast industry. What is more V2000
was even better than either, but the problem of both Beta and V2K
was price and availability. It wasn't helped by the TV rental
shops plugging them and then failing to provide any support
especially if they developed a fault. Net result they both died
and VHS won the day. Sad, but that's life.


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Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com