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Sony Electronics introduced the F23 camera, which will support 4:4:4 1920 by 1080 RGB imaging. The system will join the HDC-F950 camera at the high-end of the company’s CineAlta™ line of acquisition products for digital television and motion picture content creation. It uses three 2.2 megabit 2/3-inch type progressive CCD imagers and a 14-bit A/D converter. The system will support 1080/23.98P, 24P, 25P, 29.97P, 50P, 59.94P, 50i and 59.94i formats.
“With this new system, content creators and program producers will have one more...
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When forecasting its profit margin for the year, Sony expected to take a hit from the upcoming PlayStation 3 launch; companies regularly lose money when making new hardware, so some financial hemorrhaging was to be expected. What Sony couldn't have foreseen, however, was the massive battery recall that ended up costing them a whopping $429 million and sent their bottom line screaming into the basement.
The cost to Sony's profits is obvious, but the more subtle damage was done to the company's image as a mainstay of consumer technology. The...
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Sony Corp. said Friday it will lower the price of its much-anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console, heating up the competition in the next-generation gaming war against rivals Microsoft and Nintendo.
The announcement comes just days after Microsoft announced that it would roll out an external high definition DVD player for its Xbox 360 in an effort to match the PlayStation 3, which is due to be released later this year with its own Blu-ray DVD technology.
Sony will cut the price of its basic PlayStation 3 model in Japan to 47,600...
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IBM has begun to distribute it’s new line of high-powered QS20 Blade Servers based on the same Cell Processor that will be used in the upcoming PS3.
Today IBM announced a new line of high-powered QS20 Blade Servers intended for use in seismic research, encryption, digital image rendering and military surveillance applications. Each QS20 will include two nine-cored Cell Processors clocked at 3.2Ghz apiece, which were developed by IBM along with Sony and Toshiba for Sony’s upcoming Playstation 3 console, among other things. Toshiba will...
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Hollywood is hoping high-definition DVDs will reignite a slowing market for movies at home, but they have drawn mixed reviews from retailers and analysts due to technical issues and a bitter format war.
The competing formats, Sony Corp.-backed Blu-ray and Toshiba Corp.-championed HD-DVD, aim to provide better picture quality and interactive features, but some early viewers have been underwhelmed.
"Neither format is selling well or at the level I had expected. I had expected early adopters to step up and other retailers have had the same...
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Based on a new media research report that says neither the HD DVD nor its Blu-ray contender will deliver a "knock out" punch in the digital video ring, consumers may well think twice before upgrading their home theater system.
That's the conclusion drawn in a report by media researchers at The Screen Digest, which projects that both formats will coexist until some form of common ground is established, much like the current situation with recordable DVDs.
Opinions vary among industry watchers, some of whom argue that Blu-ray, backed by...
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Ubisoft's Red Steel game for Wii will incur a development cost of approximately $12.75 million. Red Steel is being readied to launch alongside the Wii later this year. According to its developers, the game will have approximately 13 hours of play time.
Wii is considered to be the cheapest next-generation console to develop for. In May, THQ president Brian Farrell estimated Wii development costs are in the range of a quarter to half of that required for PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 development. What does this mean for developers? A game such as...
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david 1 year 11 months ago
This little gadget packs some nice features and definitely seems like a step in the right direction for Sony, much better than their old Vaio media device.
The media player does MPEG-4, digital audio, and pictures. But it also has a WiFi connection and a QWERTY keyboard, for chatting on Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger (No AIM support, sorry.) Wait, wait, wait! It also works as a wireless Skype phone! And it has an Opera browser. And it can wirelessly stream music to other mylo owners in the area, ala iTunes. Without cellular connectivity,...
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Kenshi 1 year 11 months ago
Sony Corp. plans to sell off some of its properties in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, where the company was born, company officials said Friday.
"We have started looking at selling some properties in the area," Sony spokesman Atsuo Omagari said.
"There are about 12 buildings in the area but we haven't yet made any decision about which ones would be sold," he said.
The comments follow a report in the Nihon Keizai business daily that Sony was likely to sell the building where it started business as well as some of the surrounding land, located...
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Kenshi 1 year 11 months ago
Matsushita and three other Japanese electronics makers plan to develop a join standard for new Internet televisions that will make it easier for people to see video available on the Web.
The Internet TVs will features a remote control that allows online access with the touch of a button and will also eliminate the need for a personal computer keyboard to make the gadget more user-friendly.
The new televisions will use Linux operating systems instead of Microsoft Windows, it added. That feature is aimed at cutting the time needed to boot...
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