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Please tell me this isn’t going to affect Sony Vegas!
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One thought. It looks like their commodity hardware business is in trouble. Vegas does not fit into either of those categories. If Sony remains in the media business, there is probably still a place for Vegas. I wonder what the status of their prosumer camera business will be in this plan, and if this will adversely impact sales of their still and video cameras. Beyond that, there is Nikon’s dependence on Sony for camera sensors. We live in a very uncertain world these days.
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This will have no effect on Sony Creative Software.
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Sony is a huge conglomerate. Sony as a whole has been having trouble for many years.
The only thing that matters to the Vegas product is how the Sony Creative Software division is performing. If Sony were floating high and SCS was doing poorly then the Vegas product would still be in trouble.
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Exactly Norman…
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It looks like they are selling off their PC business and not software. Last week IBM sold off it’s PC server business. PC’s are a commodity market and it doesn’t have the profits it once did so large conglomerate companies are dumping them.
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It makes perfect sense that Sony would be selling off their PC division. They never sold that many PCs; at their peak, under 1M, more recently, about 600K per year. That’s a very low margin business, too, and Sony’s hardly the first company to sell off their PC business (PC sales have been shrinking about 10% per year for awhile), or transition to mobile devices. Sony’s already in the mobile devices business, and they seem to be concentrating on that. Also unaffected are their camera and camcorder, gaming, and other professional and CE divisions, far as they’ve said.
They are spinning off the TV business as a wholly-owned subsidiary. This makes some sense. I actually bought a 70″ LCD/LED TV from Sony last Spring… it’s a very nice television. But the competition in the market has been fierce, and Sony has a disadvantage. Early on, Sony backed LCoS as their display technology of choice, and so didn’t get into the LCD panel business. Like some other companies, Sony get panels mostly from LG… but LG is a competitor…. Sony’s kind of in the Nikon position, not the best place to be.
And look at TV: it’s Sony, Samsung, LG, Panasonic, Sharp, and a boatload of Chinese. Samsung, LG, Panasonic, and Sharp all have their own LCD panel business. The Chinese brands are all discount brands, so they’re ok with the “OEM quality” displays from suppliers, but Sony’s got to be able to get the same quality as the top models from the display-making-TV-companies, or they can’t compete. Not sure what the spin-off does, but they might be more agile, at least, than as part of the big Sony machine.
-Dave
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I hope they continue to stay in the mid-range camera business.
This baby looks sweet, might be the one I have been waiting for …
Steve
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Sony will be alright, lol
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I saw a blurb on that camera. One thing that makes me nervous about it: thst single 1/2.3″ sensor. Relative to HD, your pixels shrink by 75% in area for the same sensor size. And ok, I’ve been a little spoiled by the lowlight chops of DSLRs. But even the AX1’s little brother, the AX100 — just announced at CES — sports a 1″ sensor. That’s as far as I know the largest sensor in any fixed-lens camcorder. I remember the early days of HDV, that first single chip JVC with the weird color matrix and absolutely horrible low light performance. And the Sonys that shortly followed, not much better or compromised on actual resolution.
Not trying to pin any balloons here, just urging caution.
-Dave
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lol, their competition is out for their heads, i give you that, lol
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