SONY (75 years of electronics history in 3 hours)

Born in the unlikeliest of places - the terrible, wasteland-like aftermath of post WWII Japan - Sony rose to capture the imaginations (and wallets) of consumers and engineers around the world. The company produced hit after hit after hit: portable transistor radios, CDs, the Walkman, the PlayStation, DVDs, life insurance(!!)... and yet ultimately fell behind its greatest American admirer, Steve Jobs and Apple. This is the incredible story of Sony’s human and technological optimism in the face of overwhelming odds - a story that, given recent world events, remains as relevant today as ever.
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[@ozafter1]

I don't understand why doesn't this have millions of views?

[@embajadoresboy4535]

Because they are watching the Kardashians or Stupid reality shows

[@abs2fast2furios]

Fantastic episode! Sony has been an aspiration and inspiration for me and I love to tell my friends about their history and how important of a company they are. Next time, I'll just send them this episode. Much love.

[@yasanth]

This is the only video i have ever watched 3 hours straight on KZbin. Such a great podcast !!

[@speedieshax]

You guys need to hire a social media person to work the algorithms for your podcast. You should have millions of views. This is truly gold, just found you guys and I have listened to like 3 episodes.

[@nZifnab]

A short clip of this showed up in my shorts feed (part of the playstation clip), which led me to the full episode here, Really interesting stuff here! What a great episode, thanks for putting this together :)

[@TheEtrepreneur]

I just came to youtube to say thank you, guys! normally I listen to the episodes in one shot, all of them. The dynamics between you two are epic, just to let you know that as an entrepreneur I'm interested in EVERY little nuance of all stories. It's interesting how the entrepreneur tune their brain to all factors that makes a successful story. Keep it up!

[@MichaelBabich]

Great episode! 🤗 Interestingly, without Sony Walkman, iPod and later iPhone as an upgraded iPod probably wouldn't exist the way we know it today.

[@Hydranox]

Holy hell out if all the auto plays with hundreds and millions of views this has been the most entertaining thing all week, incredibly interesting, I was TOO surprised to find out how little views this has!

[@anirban666]

Sony didn’t do a Sony Plus in the U.S. but they have streaming services elsewhere. Sony Liv is a streaming service in India competing with Netflix and Prime.

[@cozza819]

Thank you for this. Always had an affliction for the Sony brand like no other growing up and I was born in 97'

[@docbun]

Hey! Nice episode. I'm still trying to figure out how you're making me stick to such a long podcast, while spinning names after names of people and companies, and yet it's all interesting. Kudos!

[@jatingupta4708]

Can you please put time stamps on the video. It would be great and would probably save time.

[@tanvi_bhandarkar]

Fantastic episode! I’m curious, what is the title of the book mentioned in the earlier part?

[@AcquiredFM]

There were two! One is "Made in Japan", and the other is John Nathan's book, "Sony".

[@shellghost]

Your Nintendo betrayal premise from TikTok brought me here.!! 😅 that and Dave’s awesome smile 😁

[@Alastairtheduke1]

As far as consumers are concerned, Sony was smart with the launch of Playstation 1 and it sold like hotcakes because it was much more powerful than both super nes and sega genesis, this allowed, for the first time ever really to have arcade games at home, including 3d games like virtua racing and 3d fighting games. This was mindblowing at the time and something that Nintendo could not do at the time.

[@ahuels67]

Dude could be a stunt double on Brooklyn 99 for Andy Sandberg

[@phemartin]

Great episode! What if sony explored making chips instead of cars? Their culture seems well equipt for it.

[@chetanagarwal1]

Can you post the link to the Steve Jobs video here. Thanks!

[@Horus070]

I know it’s been awhile since you guys put out this video … very interesting story about Sony … which I didn’t know. But anyways… once you mentioned how bad Wonder Woman 1984 was bad .. I was curious if you seen or heard about the Madam Web … by Sony 😂

[@user-rg9sr9dv1v]

The beginning of Technology entering the T.V programming from channels from within the living room

[@cachoaz1]

What part do they talk about the cell processor

[@ShivamSingh-jw8ey]

48:39 🤣🤣🤣

[@mizanagnasalam4381]

2:11:42 Sony image sensor 2:20:56 Sony's diversified

[@voltgaming2213]

Sony does know how to make a computer and phones they just make it too enthusiastic products,they are like Porsche of phones very special and very capable but not for the general audience they need a normal phone that is also a very good Sony phone that will allow them to continue making this super special phone

[@embajadoresboy4535]

Interesting my Apple TV still connected to my XBR4 Bravia Tv. An Icon connected to a future Icon in technology they work amazing. Still don’t like the tv which come all loaded with apps.

[@KarlDahlquist]

This video should have a ton of views! Does anyone remember the Sony Style Magazine?

[@OldSonyMan]

I'm an hour in, I see a few mistakes and misreadings. First, Trinitron was not invented by Sony Sony 'Bought' Trinitron after years of research into colour television produced 'Cromatron' and very nearly bankrupted the company ! Next, the reason Sony didn't try to sell the Betamax format on the promise of renting 'Pre-recorded video tapes' because no such Product' existed ! Later when video rental was a 'Thing' i clearly remember seeing a brand new pre-recorded copy of star wars on sale at a manufacturers recommended price of £100 (in around 1981) so not so many people would want to watch a movie at home instead of a 'well equiped' cinema ! Also Betamax wasn't their first attempt at VCRs, i have a Sony portable reel to reel vcr (from 1968). Minidisk was only a flop in the USA though I didn't bother using mine too much as I preferred buying CDs instead. Sony never made a VHS cam-corder (and neither did they make VHS home decks, they were made by Hitachi), they went straight from BetaMovie machines to chunky 8mm video ones. Anyway I am not trying to 'Slag' you off, just point out some errors and now I shall watch your next two hours 😮❤

[@michaelhoudecki3657]

Great show, except "we are very fortunate for the time and place we grew up" - you must be unaware of a lot of problems...

[@AnferneeP]

None of these problems include World War 😎

[@michaelhoudecki3657]

@@AnferneeP lol you don't know either then

[@ahuels67]

1:30:38 same thing going on right now with China coming over and buying US companies and US land. But unlike Japanese companies, I think these Chinese companies doing this could really be a bad thing for us.

[@ahuels67]

FTX lol