CES 2006: Tom Hanks Only Highlight at Sony Keynote

Jan 5 2006, 1:10pm EST | by Luigi Lugmayr

So Sony plans on Entertaining the Future. What about entertaining us now?

Sony CEO Howard Stringer introduced the for pillows of the new Sony strategy. e-Entertainment, Digital Cinema, High-er Definition and PlayStation.

There where no new product announcements today. All new products featured in the keynote had been announced yesterday. The Sony Reader, Sony Ericsson W810, Blu-ray Disc player, BRAVIA TVs, etc.
Only highlight was a personal appearance of Tom Hanks. They where talking about the Da Vinci Code movie, where Tom Hanks has the leading role and cranking jokes.

At least the talked about the PS3, but no new details and no launch date. Just a disappointing "later this year" - in other words: Next Christmas.Engadget has again produced a very nice transcript with photos of this event.
See also the Sony press-release about Howard Springer's CES keynote.

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