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Friday, August 31, 2007
Sony announces new video Walkman
Sony, the company that started the portal media craze with the original Walkman, has announced new devices that will play "open standard" music and video files.
The NWZ-A810 and NWZ-S610 are coming in September with prices ranging from $120 to $230.
The A810 has a 2-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels (that's a half-inch smaller and half the vertical resolution of the video iPod, for those scoring at home), while the S610 has a 1.8-inch screen (same resolution). Both come in 2-, 4- and 8-GB sizes.
Time will tell if Sony can reclaim so of its past glory and steal some iPod thunder.
We at HungryFlix.com hope that the new Sony devices support MPEG4 and H.264 video so that Sony fans can download movies at HungryFlix.com.
The NWZ-A810 and NWZ-S610 are coming in September with prices ranging from $120 to $230.
The A810 has a 2-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels (that's a half-inch smaller and half the vertical resolution of the video iPod, for those scoring at home), while the S610 has a 1.8-inch screen (same resolution). Both come in 2-, 4- and 8-GB sizes.
Time will tell if Sony can reclaim so of its past glory and steal some iPod thunder.
We at HungryFlix.com hope that the new Sony devices support MPEG4 and H.264 video so that Sony fans can download movies at HungryFlix.com.
Labels: ipod, movie downloads, mp3, mp4, sony
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Sony releases three new HD camcorders for consumers, no budget filmmakers
Sony continues their push to win over the consumer HD camcorder market by release three new HD cams.
The HDR-CX7 ($1200 MSRP), is their first to record exclusively to a removable flash media, Memory Stick PRO Duo. Also announced today were the HDR-SR5 and HDR-SR7, two new hard disk drive high definition models. All new models use the new AVCHD codec, which is an implementation of H.264 encoding for hard disk and memory card based camcorders.
This brings the total number of sub-$2000 Sony HD camcorders to seven, over three times as many as Panasonic or Canon currently offers. Five of the seven utilize the new AVCHD codec.
It will be interesting to see if these new cameras gain acceptance in the low budget indie filmmaking market, where manual control is just as important as image quality.
The HDR-CX7 ($1200 MSRP), is their first to record exclusively to a removable flash media, Memory Stick PRO Duo. Also announced today were the HDR-SR5 and HDR-SR7, two new hard disk drive high definition models. All new models use the new AVCHD codec, which is an implementation of H.264 encoding for hard disk and memory card based camcorders.
This brings the total number of sub-$2000 Sony HD camcorders to seven, over three times as many as Panasonic or Canon currently offers. Five of the seven utilize the new AVCHD codec.
It will be interesting to see if these new cameras gain acceptance in the low budget indie filmmaking market, where manual control is just as important as image quality.
Labels: avchd, camcorder, hdv, high definition, sony
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