Twice got a chance to talk to Sony VP Mike Fidler and put some questions to the man. They discuss Qualia, the changing market, CRT, DTV tuners, and such.

The real nugget is at the end of the article, where Blu-ray is discussed. Twice asks about the plans for Blu-ray, and Mike Fidler responds with:

We still have a late 2005 launch goal — but to be quite frank it looks like early 2006. There is still work to be done on the content protection side, and a few application elements to finish. Everything else — the codecs etc. — is pretty much done. There are also negotiations to be done on the recording side for rights usage as well as for robustness rules. So, that will still take a little time. Some of it will continue as the products are introduced.

Link: Twice