Sony intros 3-CCD & 3Mp camcorders
Sony has announced two new camcorders, the 3-CCD DCR-HC1000 and the 3Mp DCR-PC350. Both models feaure Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* lenses and will be launched in the UK in September.
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Sony launches hard-disk Walkman
Sony has unveiled its first hard-disk drive-based digital music player to bear the Walkman name. The device was launched today as the Walkman brand marked its 25th anniversary.
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Sony to launch two new PSX models
Sony will put two new versions of its PSX machine on sale in Japan in two weeks, the company said Wednesday. The PSX combines a hard-disk drive/DVD video recorder with a PlayStation 2 games console.
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Sony cancels US Clie launches
In another sign that personal digital assistants (PDAs) have lost the buzz they once enjoyed, Sony has decided it will not launch any new Clie personal digital assistants (PDAs) in the US for the rest of the year.
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Sony launches portable video player
Sony announced Thursday its first hard disk drive-based portable media player to support both audio and video. It will go on sale in Japan in late June and could be Sony's best chance yet at taking a slice of the market for digital music players.
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Sony to add video to download service
Sony plans to add video content to its Connect music download service later this year, the head of the company's entertainment operations said Wednesday.
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Sony intros rotating zoom Cyber-shot
Sony has announced a new digital compact camera, the Cyber-shot F88, with a rotating 3x Carl Zeiss lens and a 5.1Mp CCD. The camera will be available in July, according to Sony. UK pricing has yet to be announced - in the US it will be available for $450 (around £250).
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PlayStation hits 100 million shipped
Cumulative shipments of the PlayStation and PS One games console have passed the 100 million mark, Sony has announced.
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Sony, Nintendo unveil handhelds
Games are going small in a big way, with both Sony and Nintendo announcing powerful new handheld gaming devices on the eve of the Electronic Entertainment Expo here this week. Sony fired the first shot in its battle with Nintendo's popular Game Boy Advance in the portable gaming arena by unveiling specs for the PSP.
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Nintendo, Sony to unveil handhelds
The eyes of a million teenagers will likely be looking towards Los Angeles this week as two of the most anticipated product launches in the game industry this year take place at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). The show, which begins on Tuesday, will see Nintendo unveil the successor to its popular and market-leading GameBoy.
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Sony unveils 20GB iPod rival
Two and a half years after Apple launched its iPod and began to steal thunder from Sony, which had ruled the portable music market since the Walkman appeared in the 1980s, the company unveiled the first hard-disk drive based music player to bear its name on Monday.
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Blue laser DVD products emerge
High-capacity DVDs based on blue laser technology are still a ways off for consumers, but video professionals may soon get their hands on the new storage technology. Sony expects to release its blue laser rewritable DVD drives in the US in June.
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Sony develops paper Blu-ray Disc
Sony and Toppan Printing, a large Japanese printing company, have developed a Blu-ray Disc based on a paper substrate which promises to be more environmentally friendly and secure when destroyed than traditional discs, they announced.
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Sony sues Kodak over digicam patents
Sony has filed a suit against Eastman Kodak in the US, alleging infringement of ten patents related to digital still camera technology, the company said on Thursday.
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Sony takes PSX to near original spec
Sony will begin offering a software update for its PSX digital video recorder and game console on Wednesday that will add almost all of the features originally promised by the company but missing from the device when it went on sale in Japan in December.
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Sony does double layer DVD
Sony has announced two DVD+/-RW drives supporting the new double layer format, one internal and one external drive. DVD+R DL (double layer) offers almost twice the capacity of conventional writable DVDs, raising it from 4.7GB to 8.5GB.
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Sony demos HDV camcorder
Sony demonstrated a prototype camcorder based on the HDV high-definition video format at the Cebit exhibition in Hanover, Germany, on Thursday.
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Kodak sues Sony over digicam patents
Kodak filed a suit on Monday against Sony and several of its subsidiaries, charging Sony with violating Kodak patents on digital and video camera technologies.
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Sony PSP launch slips to 2005
The launch of Sony's PSP handheld gaming device, described by the company as the "Walkman of the 21st century" and one of its most anticipated products of this year, has slipped and is unlikely to happen outside of Japan until next year, the company said Thursday.
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Sony sets DRM for Memory Sticks
Sony is planning to make its MagicGate digital rights management (DRM) a standard feature of Memory Stick flash memory cards and will shortly launch a new card intended to replace some of its current cards.