Televisions 
Sony Will Miss LCD TV Sales Target(0)
Sony may miss its target for LCD television sales on lower-than-expected revenue in North America and Europe, the company’s president said. The company’s 16 million units target for the 12 months ending March is “tough to reach,” President Ryoji Chubachi said in an interview with Bloomberg Television today.
“We characterize the environment for our year-end sales [...]
Grundig Elektronik To Make Sony Bravia Televisions
No matter how you view it, Grundig Elektronik is one of Europe’s largest TV companies, making some 7 million units a year. In fact, they are the second largest TV manufacturer in Europe. On Friday, Grundig reported a deal with to produce Sony LCD TV’s, boosting their shares considerably. Grundig, which was formally known as [...]
What Would You Ask The Designer Of The Bravia EX1?
We have the opportunity coming up to do an email Q&A with the designer of the BRAVIA EX1. So the question is, what do you want to know about the EX1? Feel free to ask anything, from aesthetics to technical questions, and we’ll do our best to get them answered. The EX1, announced at IFA, [...]
Sony TV’s Top PCWorld’s Reliability Charts
PC World’s annual Reliability and Service survey lets our readers rate leading vendors in several tech-product categories. This year more than 16,000 respondents shared their likes and dislikes about their high-def TVs and the companies that sell them. Participants rated each company and its products relative to competitors by nine measures, such as customer satisfaction, [...]
Bravia Gets Dromed
The firm made a surprising move and introduced a Sony branded flying saucer available for pre-order for 1 bil yen. Sorry got side-tracked here…
In attempts to bring more understanding to MotionFlow technology Sony went as far as constructing a drome which was inspired by the zoetrope, a device invented in the 19th century to create short [...]
Navy Taps Sony To Create Immersive Simulations With Incredible SXRD
Sony announced today at the annual Interservice/Industry Training, Training, Simulation and Education (I/ITSEC) conference that its SXRD 4K digital projectors have been selected for the Navy’s advanced Multipurpose Supporting Arms Trainer (MSAT) program at the Naval Air Strike and Air Warfare Center located in Fallon, Nevada USA.
The Navy’s effort to build the immersive simulation trainer [...]
Gizmodo Reviews Entire Bravia Link Home Theater System
Sony currently offers a slew of accessories for their Bravia televisions, including a DVD player, HDMI switcher, wireless HD module, and more. Gizmodo was fortunate enough to take on the task of reviewing all of these devices connected to a Bravia television. While mostly positive, the experience is mostly positive. The results are what most [...]
Sony MotionFlow Demonstration Video
The BRAVIA Z4500, announced at IFA, most certainly piqued the interest of our readers as it had Bravia Engine 2, 200hz frame rate, and a 80,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. We thought you might be interested in a video that provides a visual demonstration of the technology behind Motionflow. The idea behind the video is to [...]
Confused About Bravia Engine?
I frequent from time to time AVS Forum and enjoy reading discussions on the latest Sony TVs and other AV gear and I noticed a number of members are still not sure about different Bravia Engine versions Sony markets with their TVs. As some of us know BRAVIA Engine™ is a fully digital video processing [...]
How To Fix The Bravia Internet Video Link
In my opinion, the Bravia Internet Video Link will go down in Sony’s history as a forward-looking item that lacked the practicality and differentiation of services it needed to truly be successful in the market. In the world of Tivo, DVR’s (onDEMAND and DirecTV), AppleTV, and so forth, the device simply has an awkward sense [...]
Bravia Link Adds a New Content Provider - Slacker Radio
Looks like Sony acquired another provider for their Bravia Internet Link that connects to your Sony TV and lets you enjoy online content and this time Sony brings you … Radio with CD-quality music.
From the press release: “Slacker Personal Radio delivers millions of licensed songs and more than 100 individually programmed genre music stations, while [...]
Fairbanks, Alaska Police Trying To Find Bravia Thief
Sometimes the urge to have a new Bravia is so overwhelming that you just have to go out and steal one. Fairbanks Police in Alaska, USA are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and indictment of a man who was seen on surveillance cameras at Wal-Mart stealing a 32-inch Sony Bravia [...]
The Birth Of A Bravia
A BRAVIA television that you own or see at the local electronics store begins life as a simple piece of glass at the LCD factory in Korea, where production runs for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Once the glass cut to a size that fits your living room, it travels to Europe, [...]
Sony Delays Acquisition of FED Factory
A Sony Corp affiliate said on Wednesday it has put on hold plans to acquire a plasma factory in Kagoshima, western Japan, from Pioneer Corp due to difficulties in obtaining funding from investment banks. Field Emission Technologies Inc, 39.8 percent-owned by Sony, is having difficulty securing funding for the acquisition, estimated to be around 20-30 [...]
Best Buy Offering Diamond Sony Home Entertainment Deal
Best Buy offers a special home entertainment bundle this week featuring the 40 inch Sony Bravia KDL-40V4100 HDTV, a Sony Bravia HTCT100 3.1ch sound bar, and a Playstation 3. All three items together would cost about $2,099.97 at Best Buy. The TV has a $150 rebate and when you buy the PS3 and the soundbar [...]
Cnet Reviews Sony’s 55 inch LED TV
Just out of Cnet’s lab comes the first review of Sony’s flagship LED based TV - KDL-55XBR8. There was a lot of talk on AVS forum in regards to its release as well as its younger brother 46XBR8. These TVs use Triluminos technology first introduced in Qualia TV KDX-46Q005 (I have been a happy owner [...]
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- CNET Seems Disappointed With Bravia Internet Video Link (DMX-NV1)
- 3D Holographic TV’s Very Possible And Will Happen By 2020
- CEATEC: Sony Showing Off 27-Inch OLED Display…Again
- BRAVIA Accessories Surface at Sonystyle.com
- VPL-VW80 and VPL-HW10 Remotes Are The Coolest Basic Remotes Ever
- Sony Japan Releases Bravia App SDK
- Sony’s DVP-PR30 SCART/Coax Personal DVD Player
- What Its Like To Have Bravia Engine 2
- Sony AV Universal Remotes
- Amazon Video on Demand Now on DMX-NV1
- Sony Japan’s SAS-HD1SET h.264 HD Satellite Receiver
- Waterproof Bravia?
- Two We Missed From IFA: Bravia Z4500 and EX1 Series
- Now Playing: BRAVIA VPL-HW10 HD SXRD Projector
- The World’s Thinnest LCD TV Is Now 9.9mm - Sony’s KDL-40ZX1
- Sony Updates DRC-MF Chip to Version 3
- Win Sky+ HD and a Sony Bravia From T3
- Sony To Increase Outsourcing of LCD Manufacturing
- Inside the Technology of the Finger Speaker
- Sony’s First WHDI-enabled Device, the DMX-WL1T
- Sony XEL-1 OLED TV To Arrive In Europe By 2009
- Sony Europe Launches Bravia X4500 and W4500 Series
- Sony Asia Pacific To Release Bravia T-Series
- Sony Reduces Production At Top LCD Plant
- Sony Australia Giving Away PS3’s..If You Buy A Bravia
- NTT, Sony, Others To Embrace IPTV In Japan
- Bravia S4000 Line Receives Refresh
