Sony at CES 2012:
http://gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/_news...-to-try-harder
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Stringer, despite the challenges and the criticism, remains certain the company will have a strong future: "What's unique about Sony is that we have a stake in every path in the digital revolution," he said Tuesday. "We create some of the most futuristic products in the world."
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Remember Sony's OLED display prototypes of years past?
Sony had nothing on OLED this year while Samsung and LG--having cracked the blue-LED durability problem--both announced 55in models to ship this year.
http://gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/_news...o-us-this-year
http://gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/_news...5-inch-oled-tv
Instead, Sony was showing off yet another *futuristic* tech: a pure, non-organic LED TV. (Translation: having failed to match their Korean competitors on the Blue OLED, SONY was falling back to inorganic LED to have something) to show.
The display is by all reports, spectacular, but it's a prototype tech demo, not a product that will ship any time soon.
Futuristic is fine, but quality shipping products is better.
The first paragraph in the report says it all:
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Sony, a company whose name was once synonymous with electronics greatness, came to the Consumer Electronics Show this year as just one of the crowd — a company with some new TVs, cameras and phones. The company's top executives explain why they're not further ahead by blaming past mistakes, and outline plans to rectify them. Assuming, of course, that it's not too late.
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