Cube is in the Sony D-VHS recorder!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sony To Subcontract D - VHS Manufacturing To Japan's JVC
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07/07/1999 Dow Jones International News
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TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Sony Corp. (SNE or 6758) will sub-contract the manufacturing of digital videocassette ( D - VHS ) players to Victor Co. of Japan (J.VIC or 6792), a Sony spokeswoman said Wednesday. The D-VHS players will be sold under the Sony label.
The players can record and play back high-resolution digital television images relayed via satellite. The spokeswoman declined to say when the product would be made commercially available.
The agreement will allow both companies to "share expertise and enable the development of a new D - VHS system," the spokeswoman said.
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TOKYO, July 7 Kyodo
Sony Corp. has arranged with Victor Co. of Japan (JVC) for JVC to manufacture digital videocassette ( D - VHS ) players under the Sony label, Sony officials said Wednesday. The players can record and play back high-resolution digital television images relayed via satellite. JVC recently began marketing digital videocassette recorders under its own brand. It is rare for Sony to have another company make products under its brand. Pioneer Corp. once made laser-disk players for Sony, but only for a limited period. Sony officials said the company decided it would be more profitable for it to have JVC make the digital videocassette players than to produce them itself at its own factories. Sony will have JVC add technical specifications that will differentiate the Sony-brand products from those of JVC, they said. The players will probably be put on the market this summer or shortly thereafter, the officials said. JVC belongs to the corporate group headed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., which has been a major rival of Sony in the electronics industry. Sony and JVC have also been rivals in the videocassette recorder business and other audiovisual electronics. JVC led the alliance of electronics makers that pushed the VHS video format, while Sony promoted its own Beta format. In March this year, Sony said it will market videocassette recorders based on the D - VHS technology. JVC has been trying to make D - VHS the industry standard. |
