Litepanels has filed a lawsuit against Sony related to consumer and professional video equipment and products that infringe two of Litepanels’ patents covering LED technology.

Despite selling at least 35,000 Bravia HD LCD TV’s in July with its free Playstation 3 giveaway, Sony Australia still sees growth potential for plat panel TV in August.

TransferJet is a Sony-developed wireless system that can send data at speeds of up to 375Mbps (bits per second) over distances of around 3 centimeters. It's designed to replace the cables that are typically needed to connect gadgets and its speed rivals that of USB2.0 and Firewire, the two dominant cable-based systems in use today.

Sony surprised some at the annual E3 conference on Tuesday by reducing the price of its high end PlayStation 3 (PS3) console, following Microsoft earlier move to reduce the price of its Xbox 360.

...And then came July. First, AUO reported lower-than-expected revenues for June. Then LG Display warned that LCD "demand will be soft in July and August and panel prices will continue to fall." Third in line came Sony, which announced that demand for large-screen LCD TVs is so much less than expected that it's been forced to cut production at one of its US plants. Contradicting Weeks' assertion of "reasonable" inventory levels among Corning customers, Sony warned that it has to work down some of its "accumulated inventory."..

The Japanese government is backing Sony, Toshiba, Sharp and some other companies in joint research of new display technology called organic light-emitting diodes, or OLED.

OLED faces a renewed attack from rival technology Field Emission Displays (FED), after Sony spin-off Field Emission Technologies (FET) confirmed it will purchase Pioneer's plasma factory next year.

Sony Corp. is considering outsourcing more of its liquid crystal display television production, President Ryoji Chubachi said.

Sony Corp said it would make a strong push into networked electronics and video delivery services and aim for the top spot in LCD TVs as the firm looks to make the most of its hardware and software assets for growth.

Nokia said Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, Panasonic and Siemens have accepted the offer, and it also expects Samsung Electronics to accept the offer.