Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsDigital blog has posted a four part Walt Mossberg interview with Sir Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, from the D6 Conference back in May. It’s a very interesting interview, and truly highlights the charming and down-to-earth speaking capabilities of this fellow. Sony has been under enormous pressure to innovate and compete better in all its many businesses, and the consumer electronics giant still has not proved that it can knit them all together into a cogent whole.
In this video, Stringer talks about how Sony has been recovering from recent troubled times, the challenges of the television business, what’s next for screen technology (think thin) and the prospects for Sony’s huge PlayStation gaming franchise.
In this video, Stringer talks about the next direction for the PlayStation gaming business, Blu-ray discs, the impact of digital distribution, digital changes in the movie industry, personal computers and the “joy of craplets.”
In this video, Stringer talks more about craplets, discusses digital music players, including the iPod and Walkman-enabled Sony Ericsson cellphones, and takes questions from the audience about YouTube and the challenge of maintaining innovation and entrepreneurialism at a huge multinational company.
In this video, Stringer takes questions from the audience about audio quality, cable versus telephone, software and iTunes.
