Probably has to do with some accounting magic.

You are correct other than 

Lenovo is the best for laptops

and whoever is the cheapest for TVs.

There is very little difference is a Seiki 1080p LED tv and a Samsung 1080p LED tv. Generally the name brands have slightly better sound but they cost 1/2 as much if you shop around

Dell, HP and now Sony....the future doesn't look bright for the Windows platform at all

Too bad. Sony makes the best consumer led tv's for gaming and image quality.
The w900a destroys the samsung f8000 for gaming and image quality.
Sony's flip line of laptops are very fairly priced and feel amazing.

I'm guessing psnow will still be a service, similar to netflix.

You only split off divisions if you are planning to sell or joint-venture them. As PC and TV divisions were reporting huge losses over the last years, this is good news for PS4 as Sony will be be able to concentrate it's efforts.

Good decision on sony. They are dealing with their loss leading divisions by taking it out of sony's financials finally leaving sony with

Music/TV/Movies: Strong profit maker, Sony is #1 in music, entertainment division usually nets sony $1 billion a year in profit.

Financials: Sony's strongest profit maker at around $1.5-2 billion a year.

Digital Imaging: Professional and Consumer products developed. Its sensors are used by other smartphone companies including apple. Its revolutionary alpha and nex line are hurting canon and nikon. Money to be made with new investment in pro medical grade equipment. I can say maybe a healthy $100-200 million a year

Games: Need I say more :p New Gen profits should be from $500 million to $1 billion a year.

Phone: It's a 60/40 sony is #3 in smartphone revenue though after apple and samsung and their xperia line are making some big gains. The z1 compact is the best compact android phone period and when it comes out will sell really strong imo. They are putting a lot of risk into it but i think smartphones will help sony's bottom line quite a bit. Its gonna be anywhere from a couple of $100 million in loss to $1 billion+ in profit depending on success/failure.

Overall Sony with all of its profitable divisions come out to making $4-5 billion in profits a year. That's a healthy company so Sony isn't going anywhere. Now all they need to do is capitalize on this opportunity.

*profit estimation are from Sony's past financials and potential future market.

Hell, it's probably Sony's big pitch.

If I were a predictions guy I would guess that Sony makes Bravia it's own company while promising exclusive integrated Sonynow to investors.

They pick up investors and use the profits from the stock sales to improve the bottom line and reinvest in the company, while throwing some into Bravia.

It would be the loeb plan in reverse... and dare i say... it's a better plan.

That way if the TV division blows up anyway, Sony's hands are clean, outside a possible PR kerfluffle.

Finally, Sony wants to become profitable again rather than continue its downward spiral to obscurity. It sucks that people are going to lose their jobs but it would be worse if Sony goes under altogether.

If the TV division is still losing money it will still be losing Sony money as a subsidiary vs. a division of the Sony company.

This is a step towards selling it or spinning it off via IPO, either completely are partial divestment.

They haven't finalized that part yet, but separating it into it's own corporation is the obvious step towards disposing of it.

Uh... how?  Doesn't matter how much $$$ Sony is making off of Playstation,

if TV and Computers are losing money non-stop, no reason to keep them around forever.