28th January 2014, 8:12 PM
The biggest problem is that Sony has stopped even bothering with the lower end TV market. If you check, all of their current TV models are in the thousand dollar price ranges, with nothing at an even slightly more affordable end (say, $400). As a result, you've got all these outside companies swooping in to pick up those sales, and they are selling.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)