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Semiconductors:
“Semiconductors” includes CMOS image sensors, CCDs, system LSIs, and other semiconductors.
Components:
“Components” includes batteries, audio/video/data recording media, storage media and optical pickups.
Pictures
The following table sets forth Sony’s Pictures segment sales to external customers by product categories.
Figures in parentheses indicate the percentage contribution of each product category to the segment total.
Fiscal year ended March 31
2014 2015 2016
(Yen in millions)
Motion Pictures 422,255 (50.9) 434,253 (49.6) 447,355 (47.8)
Television Productions 247,568 (29.9) 252,456 (28.8) 270,115 (28.9)
Media Networks 158,845 (19.2) 189,605 (21.6) 218,357 (23.3)
Pictures Total 828,688 (100.0) 876,314 (100.0) 935,827 (100.0)
Motion Pictures:
“Motion Pictures” includes the worldwide production, acquisition and distribution of live-action and
animated motion pictures and direct-to-video content. SPE’s motion picture production organizations include
Columbia Pictures, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Animation, Sony Pictures Classics and TriStar Pictures. SPE
also operates Sony Pictures Imageworks, a visual effects and animation unit, and manages a studio facility, Sony
Pictures Studios, which includes post production facilities.
Television Productions:
“Television Productions” includes the production, acquisition and distribution of television programming
including scripted series, unscripted “reality” or “light entertainment,” daytime serials, game shows, animated
series, made for television movies and miniseries and other programming. Outside the U.S., SPE produces local
language programming and licenses SPE owned programming and formats around the world.
Media Networks:
“Media Networks” includes the operation of television and digital networks worldwide. SPE’s television
networks around the world include Sony Pictures Networks India Private Limited (formerly known as Multi
Screen Media Private Limited), which operates television networks in India, and a controlling interest in Game
Show Network (“GSN”), which operates a U.S.-based cable network and an online game business. Digital
networks include Crackle, a multi-platform video entertainment network focusing on premium video content.
Music
The following table sets forth Sony’s Music segment sales to external customers by product categories.
Figures in parentheses indicate the percentage contribution of each product category to the segment total.
Fiscal year ended March 31
2014 2015 2016
(Yen in millions)
Recorded Music 347,684 (69.8) 383,350 (70.9) 412,718 (68.7)
Music Publishing 66,869 (13.4) 70,959 (13.1) 71,258 (11.8)
Visual Media and Platform 83,777 (16.8) 86,195 (16.0) 116,993 (19.5)
Music Total 498,330 (100.0) 540,504 (100.0) 600,969 (100.0)
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