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    Sony PS 3: Sony told to halt US sales of PlayStation
    Posted by claudio on Thursday, May 08 @ 01:19:10 EDT (32 reads)
    Sony Playstation 3 ELECTRONICS giant Sony today said it had been ordered by a US court to halt sales of its blockbuster PlayStation consoles in the key American market and pay some £48 million in damages to technology minnow Immersion.

    But Sony Computer Entertainment, the Japanese giant’s gaming unit, said it would appeal the decision by a California federal court in the patent infringement case.

    For the time being, Sony will keep selling PlayStations, as the order - which covers the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 consoles, two game controllers and 47 software titles - will not go into effect before the appeal, an SCE spokeswoman confirmed. Sony will be paying compulsory licence fees to Immersion, she added.
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    Sony Video: Sony's new television technology is jaw-dropping impressive
    Posted by claudio on Thursday, May 08 @ 01:16:45 EDT (38 reads)
    Sony Oled Modern tech life teems with long-standing dilemmas, questions that never seem to go away. Mac or Windows? Turn off the computer every night or let it sleep? Plasma or LCD?

    Fortunately, that last question will soon have an answer. There is a new TV on the block, and its picture is so amazing, it makes plasma and LCD look like cave drawings.

    It's called organic light emitting diode, or OLED. This technology has been happily lighting up the screens of certain cell phone and music-player models for a couple of years now, but Sony is the first company to offer it in a TV screen. It's called the XEL-1, and it's available only from SonyStyle stores. Its picture is so incredible, Sony should include a jaw cushion.
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    Sony PS 3: Sony details PS3 DVR pricing, launch date
    Posted by claudio on Thursday, May 08 @ 01:14:20 EDT (33 reads)
    Sony Playstation 3 Sony has confirmed that the PlayStation 3's PlayTV digital video recorder (DVR) add-on will be available in four months' time.

    Last month, a sales page for the product appeared on Amazon UK. It stated PlayTV would be available from the end of July for STG70.

    Sony swiftly dismissed Amazon's details as "erroneous and speculative". It told Register Hardware that pricing and availability for PlayTV would be announced "very soon".
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    Sony Video: Sony shows 2mm ultra thin OLED displays
    Posted by claudio on Sunday, April 20 @ 11:44:51 EDT (219 reads)
    Sony Oled Recently showed off at the Display 2008 expo trade show in Japan, Sony has introduced new "ultra-thin" OLED display televisions that are even thinner than its current XEL-1 model.

    New XEL-1 incoming

    The XEL-1, which is currently the industry-leading OLED display is 11-inches,and measures 1.4mm (0.06in) thick. The new display model showed off will measure 0.3mm, a huge improvement from the current model.

    Sony says that thanks to a "new TFT substrate and less glass, the same resolution of 960x540 pixels is possible despite the reduction in dimensions."

    Even more impressive, but nowhere near commercial production, is a thinner 3.5-inch prototype display that measures a measly 0.2mm (0.008in) and features a 320x220 pixel resolution. The display will most likely be used in media devices or even mobile phones.
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    Sony Television: Sony KDL-XBR6, KDL-XBR7, and KDL-XBR8 specs, and release dates!
    Posted by claudio on Monday, April 14 @ 14:34:09 EDT (2045 reads)
    Sony Television Bravia LCD What could possibly be better than your 52 inch Sony XBR5 TV? The XBR6, XBR7, and XBR8, of course! If there was any doubt about Sony’s seriousness with the XBR line, we can safely put that to rest right now. We’ve just got a hold of the product roadmap for this year, in addition to full spec sheets on the XBR6, XBR7 and the XBR8. The XBR6 and XBR7 lineup isn’t the most interesting compared to the current models, with modest upgrades like DLNA compliance, TV Guide IPG, "Enhanced" XMB interface, and now BRAVIA Sync capability. Also they sport four HDMI ports instead of three while still keeping both component inputs. There’s also a PC input as well, but it looks like the TVs shed the standard RCA inputs. Then again, will we really miss them?
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    Sony Video: Sony expects Blu-ray to hold 50% market share in 2008
    Posted by claudio on Saturday, April 12 @ 00:29:42 EDT (291 reads)
    Sony Blu-Ray Player Now that Toshiba’s HD DVD format is dead and the protracted high definition war is well and truly over, Sony Corp. is envisioning big things over short distances for its newly crowned Blu-ray industry standard.

    Specifically, while speaking at a recent press conference in Taipei, Sony president and Electronics CEO Ryoji Chubachi outlined the company’s hopes for the Blu-ray platform regarding short term market positioning.

    According to the forward-looking Sony executive, the Japanese consumer electronics giant plans to integrate Blu-ray devices into a wide range of its product lines while pushing more appealing price points to help increase the company’s current share of the video disc market.
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    Sony Video: Sony Expands Projector Family
    Posted by claudio on Saturday, April 12 @ 00:12:01 EDT (247 reads)
    Sony Projector Sony plans to roll out the new VPL-E series, the latest generation in its family of entry-level LCD front projectors. The four new models - the VPL-EX50 with 2500 lumens and the VPL-EW5 widescreen, VPL-EX5, and VPL-ES5 models with 2500 lumens - were designed specifically for use in classrooms and conference rooms.

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    Sony PS 3: Sony PS3 Gets DTS-HD - Now the Perfect Blu-ray Player?
    Posted by claudio on Saturday, April 12 @ 00:09:28 EDT (244 reads)
    Sony Playstation 3 Taxes due or not, April 15th should be a happy day for Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3) owners. On that date, a firmware upgrade is expected to be available for the PS3 that will deliver the last remaining checklist item of missing features: support for DTS-HD High Resolution Audio and DTS-HD Master Audio. These next generation surround sound codecs from DTS allow Blu-ray Discs to include an extremely high quality lossless soundtrack without taking up as much disc space as an uncompressed multi-channel PCM track. This leaves more room on the disc for better image quality and more special features. Companies such as Fox have been including DTS-HD Master Audio (aka DTS-HD MA) tracks on many of their recent Blu-ray Disc releases.

    Up until now, PS3 owners had to suffer through decoding only the "core" (lossy) legacy DTS component of the soundtrack or they'd need to select another available soundtrack on the disc.
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    Sony Video: Sony intros Bravia E4000 'art' LCD sets
    Posted by claudio on Saturday, April 12 @ 00:06:00 EDT (285 reads)
    Sony Television Bravia LCD Sony has announced an unusual new group of Bravia LCD panels, the E4000 series. The primary sets in the line are sized at 32 and 40 inches, and are fully 1080p compatible. What distinguishes them however is their exteriors, which are designed to blend in with other pieces of art on a wall through the use of special framing. Four frames have been developed, in styles named "Aluminum," "Midnight Sky," "Pearly White" and "Dark Walnut."

    A 26-inch set has also been designed, but is meant to be sat freestanding on a desk or table, alongside photo frames. All of the sets incorporate a special Picture Frame Mode, which displays one of six preloaded images -- such as a Van Gogh -- or a person's own collection, including images transferred via USB. Sony has not announced pricing or availability.

    Pictures of television in full story
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    Sony PS 3: Will April set the standard for the remainder of 2008?
    Posted by claudio on Saturday, March 29 @ 12:24:01 EDT (351 reads)
    Sony Playstation 3 The console war, which seems to have been ongoing for years now, is showing no signs of stopping. Microsoft's Xbox 360 launched late in 2005 (yes, that long ago!) but we're still not quite sure who'll win the war in the long run.

    In a sense, all three manufacturers could describe themselves as being in a winning position right now. For Microsoft, the Xbox 360 has done exactly what is needed. It hasn't obliterated the competition, but it has built upon the original Xbox and Microsoft are now major players in the console market

    They're certainly enjoying their position and rightfully so. Had the 360 not been plagued by hardware insufficiencies, who knows, maybe Microsoft could have run away with it completely.
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