Sony Launches HDD-Based, DVD DL-Friendly Media Recorders
When not busy totally messing up the launch of the PS3, Sony devotes some time to releasing some decent electronics, like their latest line of of media recorders, including the RDZ-D900A, the RDZ-D800 and the RDZ-D700. All three recorders feature a hard drive for storing recorded content (the former two have a 400GB hard drive,…
Sony HDPS-L1 80GB Photo Storage Unit
The HDPS-L1 (have we met before?) is an 80GB photo storage unit from Sony that serves as a central place to store your digital photos, with all the appropriate outputs so you can watch edge-of-your-seat slideshows for when Grandma visits. It’s about half the size of the average DVD player, so while not portable in…
Sony DSC-N2 Cyber-shot With 3-Inch Touch Screen
In our haste to bring news of the Sony DSC-T50 Cyber-shot, we failed to mention the Cyber-shot DSC-N2, a 10-megapixel digital camera with a 3-inch touch screen display. The camera makes use of Sony’s Clear Photo Plus LCD technology that supposedly enables higher resolutions, higher contrast and improved viewing angles. It also has 25MB of…
Microsoft to Release Cheaper Xbox 360 in Japan Right Before PS3 Launch
Microsoft is looking to steal some of the PS3’s launch thunder (not that Sony isn’t do a fine job of borking it up themselves) in Japan by releasing the Core version of its Xbox 360 console on November 2, just a few days before the PS3’s launch. Right now, only the Premium edition (the “real”…
GameExpert’s PSP Portable Theater: Fancy Way of Saying ‘Dock’
Companies try to come up with clever names to disguise what their lowly products truly are, so it’s with great joy that we present the GameExpert Portable Home Theater for the PSP. Misleading name aside, the Portable Home Theater is little more than a dock with built-in speakers and a tiny subwoofer. It does, however,…
PS3 Delayed In Europe Until March 2007
Sony has announced that the PlayStation 3 will not be released in Europe until March 2007, some four months after the original November launch date. Citing production problems involving the console’s Blu-ray disc drive, outspoken Sony bigwig Ken Kutaragi insisted that it will still be released on time in Japan and North America, the company’s…
Sony Updates UX-180p UMPC After Only Eight Weeks, Now the UX-280p
Either Sony has adopted an expedited release cycle or they’re tacitly admitting that they rushed the UX-180p to the market since they’ve quietly gone ahead and have updated it to the UX-280p. What can you expect now? Sony has doubled the amount of RAM, from 512MB to 1GB, and now sports a 40GB hard drive.…