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Sony unveils Google TV-powered Internet TV
SV Staff  |  Oct 12, 2010
Sony has finally drawn the curtain from its Google TV-powered product line. In a press conference today in New York, the company announced the Sony Internet TV, a series of HDTVs equipped with Google TV connectivity features. The Internet TV...
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Sony Unveils New Flagship 4K Blu-ray Player
SV Staff  |  Jul 02, 2019
Sony pulled the wraps off a new flagship 4K/Ultra HD Blu-ray player yesterday that supports hi-res audio and spins DVD Audio discs and SACDs.
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Sony Unveils Soundbars and Budget AV Receivers
Bob Ankosko  |  Apr 24, 2015
Sony this week announced pricing and availability of two new budget AV receivers and four soundbars, including the high-end HT-ST9 that will list for $1,500 when it hits stores in July.

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Sony unveils surround soundbar for the PS3
SV Staff  |  Jun 15, 2010
E3 isn't usually a place for home theater news, especially from the Big Three game companies (Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony). However, Sony made a surprise announcement for game-hungry, Playstation 3-owning home theater buffs out there. The...
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Sony Unveils XBR-Z9D TVs, Demos Advanced HDR Processing and Backlighting
Tom Norton  |  Jul 22, 2016
Late this summer, or shortly thereafter, Sony will attempt to upend the way we look at UHD and high dynamic range (HDR) with its new Z9D series of premier Ultra HD. Don’t look for them at Joe’s Video down the street, however, but rather in premier outlets such as Magnolia (located in or adjacent to selected Best Buy stores) and custom installers. They’re also likely to find their way into more than a few professional facilities.
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Sony Ushers in New Era of Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Feb 28, 2008
Sony gave the press and dealers a peek into the interactive features of next-gen Blu-ray Disc players this week at its Open House in Las Vegas. Don Eklund, executive vp of advanced technologies for Sony Pictures, was on hand to wax on the...
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Sony VPL-GTZ380 Projector Demo Delivers Goosebumps
Mark Henninger  |  Sep 30, 2022
The highlight of my visit to Sony’s booth at CEDIA 2022 consisted of a high-powered demo session in a blacked-out theater, featuring the 10,000-lumen VPL-GTZ380 4K projector featuring Sony’s own SXRD three-chip projection technology as well as the X1 Ultimate for Projector processor.
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Sony Wins Top Honors at 2025 Value Electronics TV Shootout
Mark Henninger  |  Jul 28, 2025
In a closely watched annual tradition for video enthusiasts, retailers, and manufacturers alike, the 2025 Value Electronics TV Shootout concluded Saturday with Sony’s 65-inch Bravia 8 II OLED (model K65XR80M2) claiming the title of “King of TV.”
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Sony Woes
SV Staff  |  Dec 09, 2008
  Yikes. Tough times even for the giants of industry. Sony just announced plans to lay off 8,000 full-time employees worldwide. Ouch. An additional 8,000 contract and temp employees will also be getting the ax. With a global workforce of...
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Sony Working to Fit Movies on PS3 Combo Discs
SV Staff  |  Feb 11, 2009
It's a great idea to include a digital copy of a movie with Blu-ray discs, but Sony is taking it a step past that. According to John Koller, director of hardware marketing for the PS3, the discs would be perfect for games based on movies and...
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Sony's "Hancock" at Home
SV Staff  |  Jul 01, 2008
Why won't Sony's CEO Howard Stringer make up his mind? First, he claimed movie downloads would never take off. Now, he's changed his tune entirely. Sony's hoping Will Smith's latest release, Hancock will change the way we watch movies. Hancock...
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Sony's "Missing Link" Receiver Gets the Blu's
Darryl Wilkinson  |  Jun 05, 2006
Sony proudly announced the imminent birth of their newest STR-series receiver, a home theater gizmo Sony says is "the final link in the HD chain". The new STR-DG1000 is described as having 1080p pass-through, eight channels of uncompressed audio, smooth video switching, and a simplified surround sound set up with automatic adjustment. (Well, it's not totally automatic. You still have to hook up the microphone and push a button.)
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Sony's 1973 ad is really, really funny in hindsight
SV Staff  |  Aug 12, 2010
CDs are arguably on the way out. Cassette tapes are extinct. Vinyl albums are generally used only by audiophiles and other extreme music enthusiasts. Over the last decade, we've seen digital distribution become one of the most popular ways to...
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Sony's 2008 Line Show
Thomas J. Norton  |  Feb 27, 2008
This year, as last, Sony held its annual line show at the Paris hotel in Las Vegas. While it is intended primarily for dealers—which explains the introduction of everything from televisions to digital voice recorders, computers, cameras, cell phones, and alarm clocks (in short, everything you'll see featured in Sony movies later this year)—the press was brought in to have the first look.
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Sony's Akio Morita on Norio Ohga
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 29, 2011
You've probably read elsewhere that Norio Ohga died last week at 81. As chairman of Sony from 1982-95, he got the company into the motion picture and music businesses. An accomplished musician and music lover, Ohga was the guy who insisted the Compact Disc format should hold at least 74 minutes to accommodate Beethoven's Ninth Symphony without flipping. See obituary.

Perhaps the person best suited to reminiscing about Ohga would be the one who wooed him away from his career as a performing musician, Sony's legendary founder Akio Morita, who died in 1999. Following are some passages from his 1986 book Made in Japan. He starts by describing Ohga as "the young music student who asked so many audacious questions of our salesmen in 1947 that they finally brought him around to the company to talk to the engineers."

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