| ManUtdFan said: I blame samsung |
The poor fortunes of a company are often the company itself, NOT its competition.
The ability or inability to adjust to technology, trends, and your competition will determine your success, not if your competition is capable of doing the same.
Sony has, over the years, done a poor job of adjusting to technology and trends. They've tried to develop the technology everyone else adopts, and not always successfully. Depsite being one of the early adopters of LCD technology for TVs, Sony failed to capitalize on their position and instead allowed upstarts in Korea (Samsung and LG) to take them completely by surprise.
Where as Sony was happy competing with Plasma TVs in the high-end market, Samsung and LG were more interested in bringing high-end features to lower tier, less expensive LCD TVs and advancing LCD technology to provide a competative offering versus plasma. Esssentially Sony shot themselves in the foot by trying to maintain LCDs as a high-end product rather than advance and drive LCD TVs into the mass market.
Granted. All of the Japanese TV manufacturers were completely taken off guard by Samsung and LG, but still. They did so by trying to manipulate prices and keep LCD technology as a high-end technology.
