Sony’s Annual Net Losses Double Prediction

When Sony was selling only TVs with their Trinitron picture tube, it was the industry standard, the one everyone else had to follow.

To most people, there is little if any difference in the major brands of flat panel TV. As they’re losing money on every panel they sell, dropping the category makes perfect sense.

I just don't understand how Sony has managed to stay in the electronics business this long. All I hear is them losing money all the time, its been like that for years.

@JOliver I totally agree with your first part, Sony was the ish back then, I owned a couple of those Wega TV's. 

JOliver:

To most people, there is little if any difference in the major brands of flat panel

Actually, I Have two Samsung and I would not buy any other brand. When it comes to movies, I don't stream or download from torrents, I have a healthy library of Blu Rays and I take the picture quality of a TV and my movies very serious, no cheap brands for me.

JOliver:

When Sony was selling only TVs with their Trinitron picture tube, it was the industry standard, the one everyone else had to follow.

Back in the day, the Trinitron was awesome and Sony was golden! Sony's Trinitron of today, if they still manufactured it, might contain a rootkit that rats you out to your wife or girlfriend every time you watch a 'MANswers' episode. Also, after your purchase, Sony would notify you that your picture quality would become seriously degraded unless you agree to arbitration.

JOliver:

When Sony was selling only TVs with their Trinitron picture tube, it was the industry standard, the one everyone else had to follow.

I have to agree, the FW900 was one of the best CRT's ever produced by mankind. Cool, vibrant, fast and dope.

Sony's new CEO has a tough challange against him if the losses are that big, surely he'll turn it around. I hope...

I could have told you this a year ago. I did not know they were going to loose quite this much, but I did know they were going to loose a major amount. Sounds like they can just join in with most world governments etc. If everyone is loosing money where they he11 is it going? I mean I get a bad economy etc but there has to be a recipient somewhere realistically.

TVs are on the down turn. People dont buy them as much as they used too, and when they do they just get a cheap one. Sony can come back from this, they just need time. If they dont, oh well.

If anyone can save Sony, it's the Kaz.

As a kid, my parents only bought Sony products because they were the most dependable electronics brand on the market at the time. It really doesn't help Sony that the global economy has been crappy for the past several years. Still, many other tech companies have been able to weather the downturn with fewer losses than Sony. I believe they should bring in an outside firm to help look at ways to turn the company around.

Sony losses the double? ohh that is nothing i thought they had no customers left lol

cowboyspace:

i thought they had no customers left

Sony ranks #73 of the Fortune 500 companies worldwide, so maybe there is still one or two customers left.

When I was a kid, there was a saying,..."No Baloney, It's A Sony!" It spoke of their quality and if you bought their brand, you were buying the most expensive that was available.

Their products ~were~ the very best in electronics, worldwide. They grew to be number one, everywhere.

Sony TV's, Walkman's, Stereos, you name it, they made the best and came up with the best ideas. BetaMax was a good technology, but they refused to license it to other companies. (big mistake)

Then they got to be too big for their britches. They thought that they were all that. In a tribute to stupidity, they made the decision to include Root-kit Viruses on their music CD's and they were caught doing it.  That was embarrassing and it cost them dearly in reputation. They never did stop thinking that they were all that,.....and hackers handed their asses to them on a platter last year. (several times)

This is why they're losses are so high. Maybe this new boss man can fix it. We'll see,........

Sony has always had good products - even to this day. The problem with Sony, IMO, is that *someone* in their organization (perhaps the lawyers) have adopted the attitude that the customer is the enemy. 

Super Dave:

the customer is the enemy

Yeah, I can see that,.........it sucks too.

And then those childish people that call themselves 'Anonymous' went after Sony. Whatever. However, if anyone deserves to have their chops busted, it is Sony!

Yea like you said they were. We are in the present now, i know sony was good before but that have changed now.

Yea they've been tru a lot of things ( you listed some above ) time to face its consequences . I hope kazuo help them out this time..

          Its really sad to hear that. Eventhough Sony has been one of the most significant companies in consumer electronics, the company has been posting huge losses for the past 4 years running. The company is restructuring and will fire 10,000 employees. 10K workers to get pink slips in Sony layoffs. I hope they will overcome this problem concerning all the employees and their families.