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Low End Theory: Coalition of the Skinflints

Whatever happened/To Tuesday and so slow Going down the old mine/With a transistor radio When a whiskey-addled Van Morrison first belted out the above lyrics in 1967, he was trying to come to terms with a long-ago love—a brown-eyed girl obliging enough to give him quickies behind some East Belfast stadium, apparently. Yet Van was…

Gadgets Brendan I. Koerner

Microsoft and the Case of the 1080p Sony Hijinks

If you recall, yesterday Microsoft released the latest update for the 360, this was the long awaited update that added 1080p capabilities to the console. https://gizmodo.com/xbox-360-live-update-hits-your-living-room-211465 After a day of testing there are some particular strange things going on. People on the AVS forum are reporting that 1080p is not working with component or VGA…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Sony VGN-N17L: Walks Like a MacBook, Talks Like a MacBook…

Sony appears to be the latest company to rip Apple off according to a few released pictures of its VGN-N17L Vaio laptop. A quick glance reveals a similarity to the MacBook/MacBook Pro, which I’m sure Sony would just chalk up to coincidence. It has a 15.4-inch display and, uh, a keyboard. (Specs haven’t been released,…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Sony Vaio G1: Sub 2-Pounder, Carbon Fiber Goodness

Sony’s smashed the 2-pound barrier with its Sony Vaio G1, a 1.98-pound carbon fiber laptop that the company calls “the lightest fully usable notebook ever produced.” Despite that feather weight, it still has a 12.1-inch display, 1.5GB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive. Unfortunately, its 1.2GHz Intel Core Solo processor isn’t going to set…

Tech News Charlie White

Sony Getting Probed by DOJ

If we told you Sony was getting looked into by the DOJ, what would you guess it was for? The exploding batteries? The PlayStation 3 release? Actually, it’s for their Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) business. The Japanese company received a subpoena from the Justice Department’s antitrust division seeking information about Sony’s static random access…

Tech News Jason Chen

Why the PS3 Needs Lots of Power

A bit of investigative reporting on why the PS3 needs 380 watts of power to fire up. PS3 Twice as Power-Hungry as XBox 360 [Giz] https://gizmodo.com/ps3-twice-as-power-hungry-as-xbox-360-211005

Tech News Brian Lam

Sony Ups Micro Vault Series to 8 GB

Sony has announced their latest USB flash drive, the Sony Microvault Midi. With the addition of the Midi (which has nothing to do with awesome MIDI music) Sony has increased the storage capacity up to 8 GB. Also included is the Expander2 compression software supposedly capable of storing up to three times more data. The…

Tech News Travis Hudson

PS3 Twice as Power-Hungry as XBox 360

Sony’s upcoming PlayStation 3, due on US shores on November 17, sucks up 380 watts of power, a far cry from the PS2 which sips a mere 45 watts. That means the PS3 uses more than twice the 160 watts consumed by the Xbox 360. The PS3’s 380 watts will cost you around $40 a…

Tech News Charlie White

Laptops Are Built Like Crap

Consumer Reports recently posted this chart showing the percentage of laptops that need some serious repair – we believe/hope over the life of the product. These numbers are staggering, as is the fact that there is only a 3% difference between leaders Sony and Lenovo and losers Compaq and Gateway. Everyone’s products suck. Great. But…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Battery Recalls Cost Sony More Than PS3?

We’ve been telling you about all those Sony battery recalls for a long time now, knowing all along that it was costing Sony a bundle…and honestly laughing a bit as we baked pie graphs about the horrifying ordeal. https://gizmodo.com/sony-joins-the-club-of-laptop-companies-recalling-sony-208467 The total is in at a whopping $429 million in Sony’s latest year-end profit forecast. To…

Tech News Mark Wilson

The PlayStation 3 Can Do Which Formats?

Oho! Sony’s finally let fly with what formats the 1080p-capable PlayStation 3 will be able to support. Will it play the bare minimum of MP3s? Will it go above and beyond and play back DivX? Can you watch your iTunes movies on it? Find out after the jump. VIDEO •MPEG-1 •MPEG-2 (PS,TS) •H.264/MEPG-4 AVC •MPEG-4…

Tech News Jason Chen

The Weirdest PS3 Commercial Yet

The only way we’d be more confused is if a shiny bald-headed man jumped out at the end and shouted SEGA! Seriously, Sony? Find a new ad agency to do these. If you thought this PS3 ad was weird. You ain’t seen nothin. https://gizmodo.com/first-ps3-tv-ad-debuts-is-really-weird-207786

Tech News Jason Chen

Sony HDR-SR1, Hottest HD Cam on the Market

The folks at Camcorder Info have finished their lengthy thesis on Sony’s HDR-SR1. For those who don’t remember, the SR1 is Sony’s hard drive-packing (30GB) HD camcorder. It has the same CMOS sensor found in Sony’s HDR-UX1, so it suffered from the same noise problems users complained about on the UX1. It also couldn’t top…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez

Sony Bravia Cellphone

It’s hard to tell from the shots, but this Sony Bravia phone seems to be a Sony-only device, and not a Sony Ericsson collaboration that we’re used to seeing. Similar to stressing photography with K-line of phones by labeling them “Cyber-shot”, or the W-line with the “Walkman”, Sony’s labeling these “BRAVIA”, emphasizing that these phones…

Tech News Jason Chen

Bodog Taking Bets on PS3

Bodog, the online poker/casino/sports book is known for having betting lines of some odd things—mostly relating to celebrities and reality TV, but now they have created some lines regarding the PS3. Here are the three lines you can bet real money on: • Will Sony reduce the $499/$599 price tags on PS3 before the expected…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Rumor: Best Buy Shits on Employees, Forbids PS3 Purchases

Just in wake of those EB Games shenanigans comes this rumor from our lovers over at Kotaku. Their insider says: https://gizmodo.com/ebgames-firing-employees-for-ebaying-ps3-wii-209877 …the memo we received stated that employee (PS3) purchases ‘should not be allowed.’ According to another store manager, ‘Employees are completely locked out of buying a console.’ … Apparentlly, this decision came about so…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Sony Launches D-NE241 Walkman—Walkwhat?

Hold on, let me get in my Delorean and go back in time to figure out what the hell a CD Walkman is. Okay, it’s a portable music player that plays CDs. Easy enough. I guess when everyday there is another exploding battery and another PS3 problem, it is probably in Sony’s best interest to…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Sizemodo: PlayStation 3 vs. ColecoVision

Released in 1982, the ColecoVision was infamous for advertising games using doctored or artist renditions of screenshots designed to look like a completed game. Various other advertised games were never even released. Other problems: Coleco Industries tried to do too much and made a hardware expansion module (the Adam), turning the console into a full…

Tech News Jason Chen

PlayStation 3 Gets FCC Approval, FDA Approval Still Pending

Seeing as Sony’s PlayStation 3 costs as much as two months’ food budget, we’re going to have to choose to either eat or play. We of course chose play, but if the FDA says the wireless SIXAXIS is safe to consume, we may not have to. FCC [via Mobile Whack]

Tech News Jason Chen

Sony NV-U71T GPS Likes Finger Caresses

Sony’s second generation GPS came out today, building upon the solid, if not a little boring first system. This one has a few tricks up its sleeves, though. Most notably traffic monitoring, and finger gesture reading. Traffic is par for the course, but the finger gestures are something we”ve never seen before. Essentially, you can…

Gadgets Brian Lam

Low End Theory: Coalition of the Skinflints

Microsoft and the Case of the 1080p Sony Hijinks

Sony VGN-N17L: Walks Like a MacBook, Talks Like a MacBook…

Sony Vaio G1: Sub 2-Pounder, Carbon Fiber Goodness

Sony Getting Probed by DOJ

Why the PS3 Needs Lots of Power

Sony Ups Micro Vault Series to 8 GB

PS3 Twice as Power-Hungry as XBox 360

Laptops Are Built Like Crap

Battery Recalls Cost Sony More Than PS3?

The PlayStation 3 Can Do Which Formats?

The Weirdest PS3 Commercial Yet

Sony HDR-SR1, Hottest HD Cam on the Market

Sony Bravia Cellphone

Bodog Taking Bets on PS3

Rumor: Best Buy Shits on Employees, Forbids PS3 Purchases

Sony Launches D-NE241 Walkman—Walkwhat?

Sizemodo: PlayStation 3 vs. ColecoVision

PlayStation 3 Gets FCC Approval, FDA Approval Still Pending

Sony NV-U71T GPS Likes Finger Caresses

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