A Sign Of The Times: Sony Stops Making Regular Rear Projection TV’s

The rear projection TV we have been enjoying since the birth of Television is no longer a profitable option for Sony so starting soon they will stop producing them all together.

In the fiscal half-year through September, Sony lost $526.3 million in its TV operations, partly because of losses tied to rear-projection TVs. Diving prices of LCD TVs also contributed to the red ink. The world’s electronics makers are all working on LCD technology for TVs, as well as another technology called “plasma display panels,” or PDP. TechNewsWorld

Is this a major sign that the HD era is finally almost upon us?