Anyone who knows my television viewing habits knows that the only program I have my DVR automatically record for me is Charlie Rose, the long-running PBS talk show (OK, there was a season of Prison Break in there somewhere, too, but let’s not talk about that).

Last night’s episode, featuring a lengthy, candid conversation with Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and CEO of Sony, should be called for viewing

for anyone interested in consumer electronics.

During the course of the show, Stringer talks, fairly knowledgeably, about the PlayStation 3, how Sony lost the portable music player market, how Blu-ray vs. HD DVD played out differently than the Betamax vs. VHS battle, the future importance (and current impracticality) of OLED displays, and the painfully low margin on PC hardware (even expensive Vaios). He additionally makes a surprisingly spirited […]

Orginal post by Dan Ackerman