Anyone who knows my television viewing habits knows that the only program I have my DVR automatically record for me is Charlie Rose, the long-running PBS talk show (ok, there was a season of Prison Break in there somewhere, too, but let’s not talk about that).

Last night’s episode, featuring a enlarged, candid conversation with Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer, should be due viewing for anyone interested in consumer electronics.

During the course of the show, Stringer talks, fairly knowledgeably, about the PlayStation 3,

how Sony lost the portable music player market, how Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD played out differently than the Betamax vs. VHS battle, the future importance (and current impracticality) of OLED displays, the painfully low margin on PC hardware (even expensive Vaios), and he makes a surprisingly spirited pitch for the PlayStation Network as a delivery system for all kinds of composition (check out his ideas about using the PS3 and PlayStation Network as a platform capable of sharing subject matter with the iPhone).

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Original post by Dan Ackerman