Sony NW-A840, Walkman

Sony just introduced which will probably be the best player in its Walkman range, the Sony NW-A840, which only fails him, in my opinion, the colors offered in black and brown. Browsers do not look here, touch screens or Wi-Fi, we’re talking about a media player, focusing on the audio, which does what it has to do.

Allow playback both audio and video, the latter in an OLED screen with a resolution of 400 × 240 pixels and a size of 2.8 inches. It’s not ideal for watching movies, but slightly shorter clips. If we have a small screen, the TV out lets you play at 720 x 480 pixels.

Sony has decided to finally get rid of proprietary software to upload files to their players, and this model allows drag and drop from the file browser of your computer. Thus, we can rip music in MP3, WMA, AAC and WAV and video in H.264, MPEG-4 and WMV support more than enough in most cases.

In these features, the Sony NW-A840 adds FM radio tuner, a digital S-Master amplifier, noise cancellation and comes with quality headphones. Its battery provides a range of 29 hours of audio playback and 9 hours in video playback.

She puts Sony NW-A840 on sale in Japan in late October in various capacities. The 16GB model of Sony NW-A840 will cost about 180 euros, while the 32 GB up to 225 euros and the 64 GB to 300 euros

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Sony laptops can't use Windows 7's XP

 

Bad news for VAIO owners out there hoping to use Windows 7's XP mode or run any other hardcore virtual machine applications -- Sony disables the required hardware virtualization features of its laptops for "security reasons." That means XP Mode won't work on any VAIOs, but there's hope yet: Sony's Xavier Lauwaert says that the company will re-enable VT on "select models." We'll see what that means going forward -- XP Mode is a niche feature, but it's still pretty lame for Sony to be intentionally disabling hardware features.
Read - The Register
Read - Xavier's post on the Windows Partner Blog (scroll down to his comment)

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Sony A850 24.6 Megapixel

 

Sony A850 seems to be the next SLR camera officially manufacturer by Sony. The next A850 camera will be the second model of the brand that goes into the field of full frame sensor.

This sensor will have a full 24.6 megapixel resolution and offer a range of sensitivities that range from 100 to 1600 ISO. The camera will clean itself and the sensor comes with SteadyShot stabilizer system in the body.

With a weight of 850 grams, almost the same specifications as the Sony A900, Sony A850 is expected that the price of this model is lower and closer to the pockets camera than the current full-format cameras.

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Sony 1080p Handycams

Sony unveils two new 1080p Handycams

Nothing too remarkable about Sony's latest HD camcorders, but the new 64GB HDR-CX520V and 32GB HDR-CX500V are solid updates nonetheless. Identical apart from the built-in storage, both feature an Exmor R CMOS sensor with BIONZ processing that should offer solid low-light performance and decent 12 megapixel stills, Optical SteadyShot with a new active mode and three-way shake cancellation, Face Touch autofocus that allows you to simply point at faces to prioritize focus in order, and, most notably, 60p output, which'll interpolate your footage to 60 progressive frames per second when connected to a compatible HDTV. Not a bad piece of kit, but they'll cost ya: the HDR-CX500V will run $1,100 and the HDR-CX520V will be $1,300 when they arrive in September.

Sony has announced the launch of the HDR-CX520VE, the world's first camcorder to reduce camera shake in three directions during filming.

Sony claims that the Optical SteadyShot Active Mode gives up to 10 times less camera shake than previous systems, allowing you to pitch, roll and yaw about as if you'd had a couple too many G&Ts.

It also says that the Full HD camcorder, which saves AVCHD footage to 64GB of Flash memory, features its 'best ever' picture quality.

Exmor R sensor

That's probably down to the 6.6MP, 1/2.8-inch Exmor R CMOS sensor, first seen in the eerily similar HDR-XR520 (home to a 240GB hard drive instead of Flash storage). If it's anything like its older sibling, the benefits of such a back-illuminated sensor will be particularly visible in low light shots.

Like the XR520, the CX520 comes with built-in GPS, a touchscreen, Face Detection, Smile Shutter and is fronted by a 12x Sony G lens. A cheaper little brother, the HDR-CX505VE, will ship with 32GB of memory.

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Sony PSP2

PSP2 to be based on iPhone-esque PowerVR GPU, rival original Xbox in power?

If Sony's PSPgo was some halfhearted attempt to quell incessant PSP2 rumoring (and our favorite PSP2 mockup render, above), it certainly doesn't seem to have worked. The new rumor out and about is that the inevitable PSP2 will harbor a PowerVR GPU along the lines of what's present in the new iPhone 3GS. The SGX543MP cited has four cores, with a rating of 133 million polygons per second at the low-end 200MHz mode that seems likely for portable use. GamesIndustry.biz calls this a "ballpark match" for the original Xbox, with some additional Dreamcast rendering enhancements for avoiding wasting time on hidden elements in a scene. They also point out that Imagination Technologies calls the chip a GP-GPU, capable of handling computing tasks in addition to graphics, and potentially giving the PSP2 the power savings of not needing a separate CPU to operate. Sure, it's all a difficult to pin down rumor at the moment, but if anything these sort of specs show what's possible for a new generation of handheld gaming when the likes of Sony and Nintendo are ready to give it to us. Now about a second analog stick...

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Sony AVCHD DVDs

Sony's latest DVDirect camcorder-to-DVD recorder creates AVCHD DVDs with 5.1 sound

It's some 60 percent smaller in size, but other than that Sony's new VRD-MC6 DVDirect looks and acts an awful lot like the previous VRD-MC10 and VRD-MC5: it can take 1080i video with 5.1 audio off your Handycam's drive or Memory Stick and shoot out an AVCHD DVD that plays back on compatible Blu-ray drives like the PS3. If you're not into the all-Sony seamless end-to-end HD experience, you can also bring in SD video over FireWire, composite, or USB to churn out regular old DVDs with automatic chaptering and custom menu backgrounds, or you can go totally old-school and just drop in an SD card full of photos and MP3s to generate a slideshow. Yeah, it's not nerd heaven and you won't be editing Oscar-winners here, but at $230 it's a pretty painless way for everyone else to archive and share their videos. Ships in September.

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Sony HDR-CX520V

Sony HDR-CX520V and HDR CX500V Camcorders

It is likely that the two latest models Sony HDR-CX500V and Sony HDR-CX520V of camcorder that has introduced by Sony today are devices that offer cameras focused on the common user and not professionals.

Both differ only in the storage capacity they offer 32 GB and 64 GB flash memory, respectively, sharing other characteristics. The Sony HDR-CX500V allows video recording at high resolution 1920 × 1080 pixels, in addition to catching a 12-megapixel photos. During recording, Optical SteadyShot offers a system of image stabilization in three directions, both optical and electronic.

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