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Although Sony has announced/launched its fair share of products lately, it would really seem that it is keen on delivering a specific model for just about any tiny niche of the CE market. For this reason, the Japanese company has just "unwrapped" at CEDIA 2008 its BDP-S5000ES Blu-ray player, a multimedia playback pow... |
4 September 2008
15:11 GMT |
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When 2008 started, everyone hoped to see a conclusion of the next-generation DVD format war between Toshiba's HD DVD and Sony's Blu-ray. In the end, Blu-ray has officially won this "battle," with Toshiba admitting defeat and moving on to other segments of the CE market. However, this victory might be relati... |
4 September 2008
14:41 GMT |
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Microsoft together with Sony were celebrated for their contributions to the High Profile of H.264/MPEG-4AVC standard that directly impacts the quality of the HDTV video signal, both in terms of storage but also of its delivery. The two companies are among the members of the Joint Video Team Committee, which received ... |
4 September 2008
09:42 GMT |
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A considerably large number of articles has been recently written on heating issues with some portable computer systems developed by major systems manufacturers. Most of the reported issues were due to some faulty graphics chips provided by NVIDIA, and affected products from HP and Dell, with several reports indicat... |
4 September 2008
08:44 GMT |
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Sam_Protagonist, who is a developer on LittleBigPlanet, has posted on the PlayStation forums confirming that the game will get a beta in early October, as it nears its launch date. While the beta is announced, it's not clear what you need to do to get in. The developer has said that "If it will be possible ... |
4 September 2008
05:07 GMT |
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Sony is among the few systems vendors that can provide users with an all-in-one computer. Up until recently, the company only offered a single all-in-one model, part of its LT series of desktop systems. However, the consumer electronics company has decided to roll out two new series of similar desktop computer system... |
4 September 2008
04:27 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment Japan is aiming to boost the popularity of the PlayStation Portable by creating a free service that is set to link the PSP to the PlayStation Store, a part of the PlayStation Network, so that users can download any type of content, from games to movies, without taking the extra step of con... |
4 September 2008
04:05 GMT |
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Today, Sony announced the wireless VAIO CP1 Wi-Fi photo frame, designed to make sharing digital images easier, and for receiving news and stream Internet radio in real-time. The CP1 model uses a built-in Wi-Fi technology, allowing users to stream photos from a VAIO PC directly to the device. The photo frame’s b... |
4 September 2008
03:59 GMT |
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It's been quite a busy time for Japanese company Sony lately. Even if it came up with a large number of products at the IFA 2008 show from Berlin, it still had to keep something in the bag for yet another major event, CEDIA, which is taking place as we speak over the pond, in Denver, Colorado. And that "somethin... |
4 September 2008
02:55 GMT |
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Sony is certainly moving fast when it comes to new product releases. They are now saying that the new PSP-3000, a hardware update for the gaming handheld from Sony, is set to be launched on the Japanese market as soon as October 16, as part of a bundle and as a standalone product. The new version of the console ... |
3 September 2008
08:13 GMT |
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Intel's famous and long-awaited Montevina platform (now officially known as Centrino 2) was just launched around one and a half months ago, on July the 15th, the first products based on it arriving almost at same time with the official announcement. And one of these early implementations of Montevina is the Sony... |
3 September 2008
06:05 GMT |
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Resistance 2 will arrive in North America on November 4, a date announced by Sony yesterday along with the pricing model for the title – the regular edition will cost 59.99 dollars. Publisher Sony Computer Entertainment is also pushing hard for buyers to get the Collector's Edition that will sell for 79.99... |
3 September 2008
06:00 GMT |
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The battle for console supremacy is fought on many fronts and one of those is that of the services that console manufacturers make available along with their devices. On one hand, Microsoft has a wide array of offers, like Netflix, which can stream movies directly to the Xbox 360, but the company chooses to ask for p... |
3 September 2008
05:22 GMT |
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According to a Sony representative, the Blu-ray disc may be considered the final optical disc format that will be developed. The idea is not that there will be no more physical media for content, but the other way around: the new advances in the Blu-ray technology will allow it to keep its crown for quite a long... |
3 September 2008
04:22 GMT |
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To be frank I am impressed by a lot of the stuff that Sony wants to do with its gaming console. The Vidzone service seems interesting, Home will likely change the way players relate to one another, and the upcoming movie rental service looks set to rival the partnership between Microsoft and Netflix. The only real is... |
2 September 2008
07:20 GMT |
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Although it has mainly focused on LCDs, Sony has also used this year's IFA show as the launch pad for a new projector, the BRAVIA VPL-HW10 HD SXRD. According to the company, the device features a new and stylish design, triple-panel Sony SXRD and 8-stage image processing, all of these (theoretically) available a... |
29 August 2008
04:11 GMT |
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The Japanese company Sony has come up with a truckload of novelties at this year's IFA show in Berlin, most of them related to the A/V market segment. Beside its advanced, ultra-thin LCDs, the company has also unveiled a device that will allow users to take full advantage of the respective HDTVs' features, ... |
29 August 2008
01:45 GMT |
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Although not directly related to the IFA show taking place in Berlin as we speak, the Japanese company Sony has decided to launch today a huge array of products, LCDs in particular. We've seen earlier the company's (and world's) thinnest LCD, the ZX1, but we're in for many more surprises, since th... |
28 August 2008
08:01 GMT |
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Sony has made history in the music world, being the first to introduce the concept of portable music players, through its trademark Walkman. Over the years, this concept has evolved, materializing in high-end media players that offer attractive designs and outstanding sound quality to their users. Like always, S... |
28 August 2008
07:20 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss David Reeves says that the PlayStation 3 will not be getting any price cut during this year, even if there's a lot of pressure from the public especially during the holiday period. The price needs to stay up for Sony to reach its goal of bringing the games division to prof... |
28 August 2008
05:30 GMT |
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Sony is really on a roll lately, whether we're talking about the Japanese, European or US markets. You've been able to see earlier today the company's latest and thinnest HDTV, but now it's time to talk about something entirely different, namely Sony's PNDs, since the CE manufacturer has just... |
28 August 2008
05:11 GMT |
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Videogame consoles seem to be intent on breaking records left and right as fast as they can. The Nintendo Wii has recently broken the 1 million units sold barrier in Canada and any minute now Nintendo is going to put out a press release saying that its flagship console has gone over the 30 million mark on a global le... |
28 August 2008
03:27 GMT |
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The title of world's thinnest LCD HDTV seems to have changed hands once again. After Hitachi held on to it for almost half a year, along came Sony and launched the incredibly thin KDL-40ZX1, whose panel is just 9 mm thick (while the device itself reaches just... 28.8 mm) but still capable of displaying high-qual... |
28 August 2008
03:14 GMT |
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The Xbox 360 long held an advantage over the PlayStation 3 because of the fact that Sony could not provide any meaningful alternative to Achievements and to the Xbox Live service, with its social service. Home is supposed to be a social network for PS3 users that will offer a wide variety of ways to present yourself ... |
27 August 2008
14:35 GMT |
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Sony's victory in the format war against Toshiba's HD DVD format should have marked a whole new era of prosperity for the Japanese consumer electronics giant, since, at least theoretically, its sales of standalone Blu-ray units should have skyrocketed. Nevertheless, it would seem that things aren't exa... |
25 August 2008
03:22 GMT |
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In an effort to expand the profile of the PlayStation 3 and to further promote the console as a multimedia hub designed not only for games but also for movies and video, Sony has decided to unveil a new service called Vidzone, which will allow users of the gaming consoles to use their Internet connection to download ... |
22 August 2008
13:46 GMT |
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Sony is now taking pre-orders for its latest iPod docking station, the S-Airplay Wireless iPod Dock. The dock is capable of sending out wireless signals to a total of ten speakers scattered throughout your house, with listeners from one room being able to choose playing music from the iPod, while those from another r... |
22 August 2008
05:34 GMT |
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Wireless, multi-room audio systems represent the future of home entertainment, and for this reason it should come as no surprise that Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony wants as big a piece of this pie as possible. This is why the company has just announced the S-AIRPLAY, a device that combines its advanced wir... |
22 August 2008
02:09 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment America announces that the PlayStation 3 gaming console is getting a new bundle, aimed at the North American market. The bundle is released because of the upcoming launch of a limited edition of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.The bundle is set to retail for close to 500 dollars, specifica... |
21 August 2008
19:11 GMT |
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For a long time, the battle of videogame consoles was waged with computing power and graphics capabilities in mind, but the fight might just shift to controllers in the near future. The Nintendo Wii has built its success mostly on the innovative control scheme and apparently both Sony and Microsoft are scrambling to ... |
21 August 2008
16:06 GMT |
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The Trophy craze is now spreading from PlayStation 3 AAA boxed titles, like Warhawk and BioShock, to the smaller PlayStation Network titles, which seek to rekindle the interest of players by adding shiny new Trophies which they can hang in Home when it eventually gets released. The latest game announced to get an upd... |
21 August 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Indeed the PlayStation 3 doesn't have as many exclusives as Xbox 360 does, but we all know that it's quality that matters, when it comes to video games, not quantity. And Sony does have quality in its games, one of the latest exclusives for its console being Heavy Rain, an adventure title developed by Quant... |
21 August 2008
04:21 GMT |
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At long last Sony is doing something to revamp its PlayStation Portable handheld gaming device. A new model was announced; it is called the PSP-3000 and aims to update the hardware of the console by offering an improved LCD screen and a built in high definition microphone. The new model will apparently be available i... |
21 August 2008
02:58 GMT |
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As we've been able to see quite clearly over the past few months, Sony is quite keen on "conquering" the European market, at least as far as high-definition TV sets are concerned. The Japanese company has launched quite an impressive number of models this year and doesn't look like it's going to stop a... |
13 August 2008
01:54 GMT |
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One of the most exciting game projects to be announced by Sony was DC Universe Online, an MMO game for the PC that can also be played on PlayStation 3 consoles. Although there are no details (not even rumors) on a release date, the development of the title is clearly going on well since the people working on it have ... |
11 August 2008
04:27 GMT |
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Home is the social network-like hub that Sony is promoting as one of the most exciting features to be launched for the PlayStation 3 this fall. The idea is to offer players a way to quickly present their identity as gamers and as persons, with Home storing all their Trophies and with Home itself completely customizab... |
8 August 2008
09:00 GMT |
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Although the summer holiday season is almost over (unfortunately), it would seem that various manufacturers of digital cameras are decided to keep our interest levels up. So, following Nikon's announcement regarding the P6000, Sony has also unveiled two new Cyber-shot models, the T77 and the T700, designed espec... |
8 August 2008
03:22 GMT |
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The Trophy wave seems to be hitting every major PlayStation 3 game this summer. As the console introduced the Achievement-like system in firmware update 2.41, publishers promised that games would begin to get Trophies as soon as possible. Now it's time for multiplayer shooter Warhawk to detail its offerings, whi... |
7 August 2008
16:21 GMT |
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Media Molecule and Sony are revealing the details of the pre-order campaign that will target their LittleBigPlanet game. From the way the Sony PlayStation blog entry is formulated, it would seem that the publishers intend to make it so that each major retailer has a different promotion tied to LittleBigPlanet. There ... |
7 August 2008
03:13 GMT |
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Let's face it, gamers, current gen consoles are already obsolete. Not hardware wise, as there seems to be enough processing power in them to make them a match for mainstream PCs for at least a few years. Not software wise, as there are interesting games and AAA titles that are coming up on both the Xbox 360 and ... |
4 August 2008
19:21 GMT |
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Both Electronic Arts and Sony, as creators and publishers of the Madden NFL series of videogames, are being sued in the Supreme Court by Jim Brown, one of the great players of American Football, one of the people that entered its Pro Football Hall of Fame. As a player, Brown wore the no. 32 T-shirt in an NFL career t... |
4 August 2008
03:07 GMT |
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The main element in the new patch is the addition of Gran Turismo TV, an in-game media channel focused on providing fans with car related television programs. There will be both free content offered through the channel and some programs that are pay-per-view. The latter category includes the much loved Top Gear telev... |
1 August 2008
05:30 GMT |
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Overall, Sony is not doing very well in 2008. Its net income came crashing down, reaching just about half of what it was one year ago (330 million dollars). Even if the operating costs have not gone up, a combination of competition, strong yen and problems at the Sony Ericsson joint venture have affected profits. The... |
30 July 2008
03:13 GMT |
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Microsoft has applauded a new move designed to give it a tad more pull on the security market against the already established heavyweight players in the industry. Even though it has been offering Windows Live OneCare for approximately a couple of years now, the software giant is yet to gain the same status as its riv... |
29 July 2008
09:56 GMT |
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You might remember that a little while ago, Sony launched an online magazine called Qore (notice the interesting word play) which was not free, but promised to offer exclusive content for readers that were not scared of the price tag.It seems that the first real interesting thing to be offered via Qore is a key for t... |
28 July 2008
16:06 GMT |
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Massive Action Game has been announced at E3 by Sony as being the biggest ever multiplayer experience, exclusive to the PlayStation 3. The developers will be the people behind SOCOM, Zipper Entertainment and the game will most likely be marketed as a modern world military simulator. The big selling point for Massive ... |
25 July 2008
19:11 GMT |
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It has been known for some time that the PlayStation 3 version of BioShock would be the flag carrier when it comes to Trophy implementation on the platform. The feature was introduced in the botched patch 2.40 and support was announced even earlier. It basically means that the Sony gaming console is getting an equiva... |
25 July 2008
07:35 GMT |
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As soon as the NPD releases the numbers regarding console sales for a month, it's time for the spin to begin. So far, only Sony has released some statements and analyses regarding the records for June, mainly because the numbers are mostly positive for the company. It might take some more time for Microsoft to c... |
23 July 2008
19:16 GMT |
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Yesterday David Reeves, who is the head of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, talked a bit about LittleBigPlanet, one of the most eagerly expected games for the PlayStation 3 which is coming in October. One of the most interesting things he had to say was that the user generated content related to the game might be ... |
23 July 2008
04:12 GMT |
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