Sony Reorganizes Their Digital Music Efforts

[James Fee]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/12/30/sony/index.php' target='_blank'>http://www.macworld.com/news/2004/12/30/sony/index.php</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Sony Corp. has set up a cross-company working group dubbed Connect Company to focus on the digital media market, the U.S. office of the Japanese electronics giant confirmed Thursday. The effort will be headed by co-presidents, the team of Koichiro Tsujino, a Sony electronics engineer, and Phil Wiser, chief technology officer for Sony Corp. of America, the Wall Street Journal reported and a Sony spokeswoman confirmed. It will function as a "virtual" company overlaying various groups in the corporation, she said."</i><br /><br />I'm sure no one in the industry is losing sleep over this, but at least we can see that Sony has admitted they screwed up big time with their first effort at digital media. As long as Sony Music is still calling the shots, I doubt we'll see any movement toward a viable entity. At least maybe we'll see them support WMA or at least a form of AAC this time, but I doubt it.