Sony's 3-D Vision: 3-D in the living room

"With its once-revered electronics business flagging, Sony Corp. is placing a huge bet this year that 3-D technology will vault the company back into a leadership position in the living room.

In his latest effort to resuscitate the struggling Japanese behemoth, 67-year-old CEO Howard Stringer has bulled past the hesitancy of some top aides to drive every unit of the company -- from TV production to the movie studio to its videogame arm -- to advance three-dimensional viewing in the global marketplace."