Sony Discontinues Rear-Projection TV
On December 27, Sony announced that it will discontinue manufacturing rear-projection TVs (RPTVs) and instead focus on flat panel display (FPD) TVs. A couple of months ago, in October, Sony lowered its forecast for its RPTVs from 700K down to 400K. Compared to that, Sony is expecting to sell 10 million LCD TVs this fiscal year ending March 2008. That is 3.7 million more LCD TVs that the company sold in the previous year. I recently wrote about why my next TV will be a Sony 55″ SXRD RPTV.
