Tag Archive for 'sony'
Sony’s HDR-TG1 Handycam (or TG3 in Europe) is undeniably an attractive piece of kit, but are its results as slick as its design? Akihabara have been testing the 1080i camcorder out and, after a week, come away with mixed feelings. Yes, build quality is good and image stablization excellent, but the GUI is a disappointment [...]
Sony have unveiled their latest all-in-one home cinema system, the BRAVIA DAV-F200, and whether or not you like Japanese company’s products you have to admit they have a knack for design. Consisting of a glass-fronted, wall-mountable control center with slot-load DVD, 1080p upscaling, a USB port for plugging in memory sticks or PMPs containing MP3s and [...]
Sony has announced three new combination DVD recorder and hard-drive PVRs, boasting direct digital copying from compatible camcorders, 1080p upscaling and a choice of analogue or digital TV tuners. The RDR-HX1080 and RDR-HXD1090 both come with a 500GB hard-drive, enough for 1420 hours of recordings at the lowest quality level (or 73 hours at HQ+ [...]
Sony have announced a new range of projectors intended to bring the company’s BrightEra 3 LCD technology down to a more affordable price point. The three models - the VPL-EW5, EX50 and EX5 - are primarily aimed at business applications, although the VPL-EW5 is also being positioned as suitable for home cinema since it is [...]
Spring is here, and that means E3 is only a few months away (for those of you counting at home, it’s 3 months). This of course means that we’re going to start hearing tons of rumors about potential announcements at the show. One of which is a digital video download service for the PS3.
If you’ve been getting excited about Sony’s Home service for the PS3, I might suggest taking your excitement down a notch or two. No, it’s not that the service won’t live up to your expectations or anything, it’s just that you’ll have to wait even longer. Hit the jump for the official word from Sony [...]
TV addicts looking for PVR functionality on their PS3 will have to wait a while longer for Sony’s PlayTV device, is the official statement from the company. PlayTV, which is a twin-tuner accessory compatible with over-the-air digital TV - such as the Freeview system in the UK - was first announced at the Leipzig games show [...]
Any still on the fence about purchasing a low cost ultra mobile pc should highly consider the Eee PC 900. Priced at just $549, it is impressively packed with an 8.9-inch LCD display with 1,024 x 600 resolution, an integrated 1.3 megapixel camera, 12 or 20 gigabyte of Solid State Disk (SSD) for Windows [...]
For some reason the announcement of a newer, thinner OLED TV by Sony and the attention of an event gave someone cause to disassemble an 11-inch OLED TV that costs $2500. It’s 3mm thick, so reassembly was probably harder than disassembly.
If the 11-inch XEL-1 was too thick for you at 3mm for an OLED screen, Sony has a new on up their sleeve that manages to almost be more anorexic than paper. For reference, and average sheet of paper is roughly .1mm thick, so stack three sheets together, push down on it to remove an [...]
