Monday, April 25, 2011

Former Sony Head Norio Ohga Passes Away

The former president and CEO Norio Ohga, Sony celebrated as the father of the CD, has died aged 81 on Saturday.

Ohga left Sony as a consultant was appointed in 1953, as a society in which the Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo time and became president in 1980 and president in 1989. Pioneer, who was trained in classical music, Sony took the arm of business lines, hardware and software, and more.

He led the development of CD audio compact and helped start the symbolic first Sony portable CD player. Compact Disc, has paved the way for the media, including DVD players and other Blu-Ray.

Ohga was also instrumental in the development and launch of the Sony Walkman tape recorder. He took on Sony in the media and entertainment areas, in turn, allows the company to issue more important for Sony in Japan and one of the largest producers of film with the acquisition of CBS Records and Columbia Pictures in 1988 and 1989, is an evolutionary exaggeration of Sony audio and video, film and games, and the subsequent changes leading to a global entertainment Ohga-san's vision for the future of this attribute, said Howard Stringer, Sony's president of The Wall Street Journal, pp

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