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Originally Posted by mstaton
BTW, Sony is getting out of the TV business altogether.
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After all these years? I don't know why Sony would do such a thing. Their TVs were quite good in the late '60s-'70s (I had a great-aunt who owned one, a 12" color Trinitron portable, for 20 years; the set never gave her a bit of trouble, and she bought another Sony after that which she used until her death -- again, the second set gave her absolutely no trouble), and their XBR and Bravia series of HDTVs looked as if they were doing well too. Maybe Sony isn't selling enough of these sets anymore, though I can't imagine why. The XBR and Bravia series, albeit high-end and expensive, were good for home theater and other uses of very large-screen HDTVs.
Although Sony is leaving the television business, they are still, and will continue to be for the foreseeable future, actively involved in home audio and video games. I just purchased a set of Sony stereo headphones from Best Buy and am awaiting their arrival (should be here next week some time); a friend of mine has a Sony PlayStation 3 that he uses daily, and likes it a lot. He also had a PS2 in which the disk drive failed after a short time.
Oh, well. As I said, it may well be Sony was disappointed in the sales (or lack thereof) of their premier line of HDTVs although, as I mentioned above, I don't know why. Many people nowadays are buying very large-screen HDTVs and 5.1+-channel surround sound systems for their home theater setups, but I guess a lot of those HDTVs aren't Sonys. The only thing I can come up with is that some folks had a lot of trouble with Sony's plasma TVs, such as image burn-in, excessive heat from the screen, and possibly other issues as well; the image burn-in problem is one reason I did not buy a plasma HDTV when I was looking for a flat set to replace my aging late-model RCA CRT TV.