Wow nice find kowen, i hope this spells a bit of good news for sony.

So Sony part owned LCD technology and they somehow got no royalties? And aside from R & D savings, how will this help Sony in the long run?

Well it was draining the company chance of becoming profitable. I'm trying to say in general this seems to be good news, but yes it can be bad news as well.

However ya, in the future it remains to be seen what will happen to the whole section. Honestly I didn't know about the Television section being this bad until last year. For the longest time, I thought that was the strongest, guess I was stuck in the 90s. 

Smart move, it seemed like they were gonna pull out at the rate it was going.

Doing this allows them to still be in the TV market and they don't seem like failures.

SONY is great electronics hardware developer but in last 20-30 years they have just tried to eat alot.

For example APPLE make great products,then gives it to somebody else to produce and sells it for good profit.It focuses on profit and then improves their products from that profit and as their products are so good,the awreness itself spreads and growth happens.

Apple only invests in product development not manufacturing so they don't have to pay those factory and other costs.

But SONY started doing everything themselves.Making electronics tech and Content is another thing but when you don't improve on it and only try to spread it then the structure collapses

But when companies focus on growth,it loses respect for its products and thinks as market is so big,business will go as usual.But market is limited as consumers are limited and the day that point is reached,its over.

I'm struggling to figure out what you're calling the loss here.

Is it the sellback price falling short of the original investment?

Also, it looks like it says LCDs. Why are you saying they'd pull out of the tv business altogether?

Sony's TV's are great, they just don't have models for smaller pockets. The cheapest I could find is 500 bucks. In Euro, not to forget.

they can't play hard ball as fair-trade laws apply

and this venture was just producing close to 1-2million panels where both SONY and SAMSUNG sell over 100million panels every year across phones,TVs,cameras,PSP,tablets,monitors,etc

also they will not buy all their panels as they still have a venture with sharp

"We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less."

Sony needs to cut its losses on some of its ventures. This is a step in the right direction.

There is more than just lcd. There is lcd led oled plasma and more kinds on the way, not to mention projectors, rear projection, tube, etc

Don't understand why you'd say this is the end and they'd have to buy all their screens from samsung. Does Sony ONLY manufacture LCD screens already?