Word: trinitrons
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...company that once had a magic touch--creating the Walkman, Trinitron TV and PlayStation, among other breakthrough products--has run adrift in an age of increasing competition and digital convergence. Its core electronics business, which accounts for more than 60% of revenues (but lost $339 million last year), has been beset by successful competitors, ranging from Sharp televisions to Kodak digital cameras, in virtually all its product lines. Most humiliating: Sony lost its leadership in portable music players by failing to capitalize on the popularity of MP3 files--a gap that Apple's iPod has exploited masterfully. The company...
...sitting in front of the Sony Trinitron every Sunday in a neon Earnhardt or Gordon T shirt and a NAPA auto-parts hat. But I now check to see who wins each week, and on the highway, I find myself looking for my openings, waiting for just the right moment to jam it in there. Maybe that's how it begins, and before long you're going around repeating the line Bill France says he stole from Hemingway: "There are only three sports. Bullfighting, mountain climbing and car racing. All the rest are just games...
...good service at the company's basement prices. The standard issue P200, at $2,599, includes a 200-MHz Pentium processor, 32 MB of ram and a roomy hard drive (2.1 GB). Its multimedia package boasts a fast graphics card, a CD-ROM drive, a subwoofer and a bright, Trinitron 15-in. monitor. When you're not playing games, you can take advantage of the bundled business software...
...Clear View: Sony's high-resolution Trinitron monitor delivers the same crisp pictures that Sony owners have come to expect from their...
...folks at Sony--the company that brought you the Trinitron television and the Walkman, and will soon launch the PlayStation game player--are newcomers to the $5 billion U.S. video-game business. But it didn't take them long to get into the mtv-blaring, schoolyard-taunting, testosterone-burning spirit of the thing. Hanging in front of the big Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles last week was a Sony banner that boasted EATS NINTENDO FOR LUNCH--THEN THROWS...