Let the “Sony’s going down” rumblings begin anew. It announced to heise online that they are not going to be marketing monitors any more. In a move that came as a surprise even to Sony’s European office, they have announced that the only monitors they will continue to produce are their “professional” monitors, such as displays for broadcasting, medical-technology and video-surveillance systems. It seems that there’s just not enough money to be made in the flat-screen business, and Sony came in 10th place in that market last year. C’est la vie.

The end of the road for Sony monitors [heise online via I4U]