Richard Doherty Quotations

The people who set that up (in Rancho Bernardo) were promoted within Sony . . . because they were able to make what was perceived then as Japanese quality with American workers. So long before Toyota and Nissan and others moved in the U.S. with car manufacturing, Sony was producing very high quality products in the U.S.

There is no middle ground with a meeting with Steve Jobs. You are either contributing to something he has thought of, or you are agreeing to something he has thought of.

Whether Microsoft launches on November 20 or December 5, we expect they will sell through every unit they can deliver before New Year's.

The real finger should be pointed to AACS to ask why it takes nine months for them to come up with this standard.

There are up to 8 layers in an average power chip, and IBM ( Profile , Products , Articles ) appears to have used just the right technology that gave them the fastest speed and least heat needed in each layer of the chip.

Media center PCs the size of suitcases haven't done that well.

He was the first to say, 'What does Intel Inside do for consumers? Not much'. They're doing more to grab consumers, and especially young adults.

He was about as good a renaissance-man catch as Sony could have hoped for.

Stern alone can make Sirius bigger than XM within a year.

Some of the policy matters around managed copy are still being worked out.

That was higher than we thought they might have gone.

Microsoft doesn't seem to be that accomplished at spotting threats. The routine of the last few years has been, if a company spots a virus, they let Microsoft know and the company takes its 'own sweet time,' as it's been put to me, in dealing with that.

We essentially are giving up holiday 2006, and for notebook makers that is going to impact their bottom line quite a bit. The first quarter is the slowest quarter of the year for any PC (sales).

The PC has tripped on the carpet going into the living room.

We should see interesting performance jumps at very low power. The biggest bang for the buck should be in portable video.

While next generation HD players are in final assembly, and movies are being mastered, the AACS architects are ensuring consumers can enjoy the HD picture, sound and robust portability potential of AACS without any further delays. Much more than just HD movies, AACS delivers new consumer interactivity, portability and feature enhancement after purchase on a scale like no other consumer digital entertainment system can. AACS represents a cross-industry team of chip, consumer electronics, PC designers and content creators, all dedicated to enriching the consumer's home and portable entertainment experience.

You can't be competitive on consumer scales if you don't take advantage of Chinese manufacturing.

We all went through this more than a year ago. There isn't a radical difference between what was said today and what was said last year under a different chairman and CEO.

We all went through this more than a year ago, ... There isn't a radical difference between what was said today and what was said last year under a different chairman and CEO.

Toshiba didn't have any choice because they don't want to launch even one player commercially that doesn't have a secure foundation to it.

We think it's going to be a very strong earnings call, with no heavy expenditures, and we expect earnings and growth to continue with the transition to Intel. We haven't seen any slowdown in sales since the close of the quarter.

This new commitment to the chip will result in more training, for starters.

We are still working out the policies for that.

Bill Gates is a very accomplished software architect. A lot of people are cheering them on and a lot of people are very leery.

Every month this battle wages, more people are getting used to getting video in other ways. That's the real enemy of this indecision.

Folks (at the FCC) are rubbing their hands as to how wild it could go and at the same time popping aspirins as to how disappointing it could be,

is firing a shot across Intel's bow, or maybe below the waterline.

It would be foolish to say these will be the last (companies) we will hear from in the next few weeks.

Sony has never been good in its thinking about how quality can be diluted. That was their problem with Beta over VHS. VHS wasn't as high-quality as Beta, and they just presumed consumers would go with the best quality. It's the same thing with flat-panel displays.

Real can still be fleet of foot, but Microsoft has to be more cautious because of all of the iterations of software they have to support,

The most significant thing is that Intel intends to qualify not just access, but also the quality of video so as not to show jittery videos in a small window.

Some people here joke that next year, this will be called the cable-less show. Their business models are under attack.

Do you want to wait six more months for an A plus? Not the gamers I saw in line on Tuesday.

Apple is moving faster than ever and we expect them to move at an even faster pace next year.

Apple clearly benefits. I could see them doubling their share next year.

A player that's licensed under the interim agreement will not be able to do managed copy.

You need to have fresh blood looking at chip technology and how it can be applied.

A manufacturer doesn't have to build a managed copy maker into their device. It is certainly possible to still build players that look just like DVD players, where you put a disc in the slot, it plays that disc, and you're good to go.

This is the green light that a lot of companies have been waiting for. Unless your name was Novell or Red Hat, you couldn't be sure you had clear legal title to Linux.

This is the green light that a lot of companies have been waiting for, ... Unless your name was Novell or Red Hat, you couldn't be sure you had clear legal title to Linux.

They pour glass and copper and zirconium and tungsten in one end, and come out with these very beautiful picture tubes on the other. There's just not enough volume to justify this amazing plant.

They have managed to create business where there was none. There was no personal computer until Apple. There was no digital video business until Apple. Today, the digital living room is a zero-billion-dollar-business. And it will probably stay that way until Apple gets into it.

It's a tremendous opportunity, ... There's no lower cost, high bandwidth way to reach consumers.

It's a very big deal because Palm, for many, many years, has relied on its homegrown operating system.

It's a 'technology' we've been invited to see. That could be all kinds of things. But a device that is near to shipping would be surprising. If Microsoft was working with any of the major chip makers on a new device, it would be a long shot that that piece of information would not slip out until the product was almost ready.

It's very audacious of them. It is bound to increase Apple's market share. The whole blurring of the Mac and the PC is complete. It now raises the bar for manufacturers of not only notebooks, but the living room and desktop PCs.

It's going to take a while to get a metric for this.

Damage to Microsoft and 360 is growing every week with no clear explanation.

It's mostly for the Hudson Valley to work on these new developments.

Everyone is waiting to hear what Howard Stringer says ? is Sony going to compete with Apple better in 2006?

The August 1995 timeline really caps bout 18 months of innovation, when Intel really wanted to put features into the silicon at a faster pace than Microsoft would have the software to deliver it,

That has the potential to be a high profit center for them, and it will be a very welcome service.

It's a model that every studio is looking at.

It's crazy. The sticker on your new player promises the equivalent of a high-performance car, but the fine print says you may be buying an Edsel instead.

It was one of the most flexible and popular and sought-after designs for much longer than the usual patent life of the product.

It's your choice since there's only going to be a fixed number of slots in a week where (broadcasters) can put a three- hour movie or a three-hour sporting event.

They can't control retail prices, for example. Today, Sony's TVs are one-third less than they were a year ago. And still, their products are 40% more expensive than the other brands. That's a disaster. And there's no indication that things will get better.

A chip is just a chip until you know how to use it right.

The labels have been talking to Amazon for several months.

If you look at the want ads for Sony Electronics, you don't get the same kind of pay scale you get at Apple, or the same kinds of rewards. They couldn't build up the kind of software infrastructure in America that Cupertino (Apple's hometown) could.

If you look at BMW and Mercedes and Ferrari and Lexus, altogether they aren't even 5 percent of the world's car output,

In the consumer electronics world, there's always talk now about Apple, the way people used to talk about Sony. At the water cooler or in boardrooms, they're asking, 'What is Apple doing next?' or 'How do we stay out of their way?

In the 28 years that I've been attending CES, this is the first one that's had such diversity of consumer electronics, PC and content industries.

If you see the future of computing as 'give me the answer now,' it favors something like Cell, a computer platform designed for photorealistic modeling.

If there were 100 million music players shipping a year, which we think will happen by the end of the decade, people might go with Dell. Dell never broke out of the 'everybody else' category.

If there was a simple acronym for greed, I'd use that. There's a lot of money at stake.

His magic is seeing value where others don't.

If it can bring some new level of performance to products, it should be beneficial.

A lot of lawyers are going to throw their hands up and ask, 'How do we make money from this? The answer is: 'Maybe they don't.

All of a sudden everyone is moving forward,

The forecast seems optimistic because so many factors are out of Sony's control,