Friday, January 27, 2006

It's Official: Sony to Stop Making Plasmas

The AP reports this morning that Sony has officially announced that it will halt plasma display production. As part of an earnings report that was rosier than anyone expected, Sony said that it will focus on its Bravia line of LCD displays and quit the plasma business altogether, at which it was never particularly good anyway (my opinion, not part of the official statement). Sony claimed the number one market share for its Bravia LCDs during the recent Christmas shopping season and rightfully will focus its ongoing efforts on LCD and its SXRD version of LCoS.

Here's the full story:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060127/news_1b27sony.html

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