Farewell old friend: Philips exits the consumer electronics game
“Since we have online entertainment, people do not buy Blu-ray and DVD players anymore,” he added. As the Wall Street Journal notes van Houten has focused on streamlining the way Philips does business in his two years at the head of the company.
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Why your phone's killing the consumer electronic kings
TVs, radios, Blu-Ray players… these are all commodity devices like fridges or cookers or microwaves: you have stacks of firms selling essentially the same thing in the same places at the same price. That means there's precious little room for profit …
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Toshiba's Media Boxes focus on streaming first, Blu-rays second
Still, Toshiba doesn't have a great track record with Blu-ray players (even its own Web site is full of negative user reviews), so despite the clever name, I'm not optimistic these new models will offer much competition to Blu-ray stalwarts like …
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