Sir Howard Stringer (born February 19, 1942) is a Welsh-born American businessman. He served as Chairman of the Board, chairman, president and CEO of Sony Corporation. Read full biography of Howard Stringer →
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... →
I was very short. Everybody else was two years older in my class, and I had curly hair and was teacher's pet.
Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the... →
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... →
Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.
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... →
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... →
The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as... →
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... →
Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.
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.
In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.
Japan can't get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can't fire.
Sir Howard Stringer (born February 19, 1942) is a Welsh-born American businessman. He served as Chairman of the Board, chairman, president and CEO of Sony Corporation.