Japan can’t get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can’t fire. Howard Stringer Read Quote
Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular. Howard Stringer Read Quote
When the digital world is really here, movies can be disseminated from satellite direct to homes and direct to small theaters in Mongolia and northern Russia and obscure places that the market for movies is going to grow and grow and grow. Howard Stringer Read Quote
For Sony, owning a studio is a gamble and probably a pretty good one, now that in the broadband era having content is a great advantage when you sell devices that in a ubiquitous world of distribution can actually show programs, movies, content directly to the consumer. So that you actually create, in a digital world, real synergy. Howard Stringer Read Quote
I’ve played a Nintendo Wii. I don’t see it as a competitor. It’s more of an expensive niche game device. We’re selling a lot of PlayStation 3s now and it’s still the best way to buy a Blu-ray player. Howard Stringer Read Quote
You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it – or for a date, and so on. You don’t all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum. Howard Stringer Read Quote
I left the golden age of documentaries to go into the golden days of the ‘CBS Evening News.’ You could see that the audiences were eroding. Howard Stringer Read Quote
The futures of Crackle and Hulu and so forth become more and more important as we connect to more and more devices. We need our content to make our services as attractive as Apple’s or Amazon’s or Microsoft’s. We’re in a brave new world of fierce competition. Howard Stringer Read Quote
When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I’ve been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, ‘I don’t want to buy that.’ There’s a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences. Howard Stringer Read Quote
