Sony News

Sony Pictures released the movie "Bad Teacher" digitally before the DVD copy, as studios experiment with new ways to make a profit on movies once they leave theaters.

YouTube has reached agreements with Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. to offer their movies for online rental, as the company tries to change the site into a movie viewing destination.

Sony today released an app that streams hundreds of free movies and TV shows to the iPad, iPhone and iPod.

Sony, the British Broadcasting Company, and the venerable All England Lawn Tennis Club will be offering 3D broadcasts of the Wimbledon tennis championships finals this year for worldwide viewing, the latest in content coming to a still-emerging medium.

Nintendo's DS portable gaming console will be able to stream Netflix movies beginning this summer, making it the latest in a slate of devices to bring Netflix's streaming video content to mobile consumers.

Sports Illustrated, famous for its annual swimsuit issue, is remaking the iconic edition to suit the times: a video version in 3D.

Cable-TV operators, fearing they might be left behind in the "smart-TV" race, are beginning to share content with makers of Internet-connected devices.

Sony plans to focus on Internet-connected televisions in 2011, to diversify its offerings and boost its struggling TV unit, after sales fell short of its target this year.

Sony has dropped prices on its new Google TV set by 25 percent over the weekend, in a move that some believe is motivated by slow sales for the new Internet-based device.

Sony is considering whether to develop a 3D version of its new Internet TV, which runs on Google's Android platform, in a move to diversity its product line as consumers demand more Web-connected devices.

Sony will begin selling televisions powered with Google TV on Saturday, in a move that will gauge how much consumers will pay to combine Internet access with regular television programming.

Google said it plans to launch its new Web-connected television service, dubbed "Google TV," in the U.S. this fall, as the Internet giant looks to expand its reach from computers and smartphones to the living room.

Google, Sony and Intel today unveiled technology to marry the Web to television and bring its programming-search service, dubbed "Google TV," to living rooms this fall.

Google plans to unveil Web-based television software, build on its Android mobile operating system, to developers at an event in May, bringing technologies from the smartphone into the living room.

Google is teaming up with Sony and Intel to help bring its Android-based technology into the living room, by pursuing a similar strategy with televisions and set-top boxes as it did with smartphones.