I appreciate the quality of the screen, but I think the Mitsubishi flat screens were a step up from Sony's Trinitrons. If I recall, the Trinitron were a section of a cylinder (vertically flat) but the Mitsubishi 2040U (and later short-neck version, 2060U or something like that) used a strategically distorted picture to ultimately hit a flat screen (both vertically and horizontally flat) and appear focused.

Sony would, in my opinion, ruin their name by mistreating people (both customers and would-be customers) by publishing what we now call "fake news" in the form of movie reviews by "David Manning" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Manning_(fictitious_writ... for more) and distributing malware to Windows users on some audio CDs (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk... for more).

The latter means that Windows users who may have legally acquired a copy of the affected 58 known audio CDs (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Compact_Discs_sold_wit... for the list) and inserted them into their Windows OS computer may have contracted software now identified as either spyware, a trojan horse, or a rootkit called "XCP" that could not easily be removed even if the user refused the EULA presented to them. Some of the software on these CDs appeared to be copyright infringements from FLOSS as well. And to cap it all off, the uninstaller for the malware only hid the software's entry in the Windows add/remove software list without uninstalling the software. Even Sony BMG's initial rootkit removal software exacerbated the problem further mistreating users. Ostensibly this was all done in the name of preventing people from making a copy of the audio tracks to their computers.

I don't recommend running Windows or any other nonfree software. But that's no excuse for Sony's abuses. There's no good way to justify committing copyright infringement against developers who are respecting a user's software freedom. Nor is there good reason to justify Sony's choices to repeatedly subject users to malware, stand in the way of a non-infringing use, or make malware hard to remove.

I'm not keen to distinguish between the various arms of Sony, so I choose not to do business with any of them. I also notice that despite all this malicious behavior the people who run the various arms of Sony are apparently not keen to distance themselves from the name "Sony".