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Sony Alpha 100 DSLR Field Test (Verdict: Great Quality Images For A Price)

Popular Photography first took the Alpha 100 into Alaska for a boat-test. Sony’s on-board image stabilization meant he didn’t need to take an image-stabilized lens with him, as it effectively added that feature to every lens used. The seven features he found great with the Alpha 100 were: anti-blurring, the 10.2 megapixel sensor, the LCD,…

Tech News Jason Chen

Low End Theory

Sony is the New Sorny By Brendan I. Koerner Many moons ago, when Low End Theory was still a metaphorical pup, I wrote a column about the principle of value spread—that is, the phenomenon of companies that manufacture both cheapo and ultra-expensive electronic goods. One of the true champs of value spread was Sony, which…

Tech News Brendan I. Koerner

Sony Reader Hands-On

We first heard word of the Sony Reader back in January when it made its triumphant debut at CES 2006. Patrick Norton at PC Mag recently gave the Sony Reader a nice little hands-on. Like most of the other pre-reviews we have seen, people are wowed by how nice the e-ink looks and how easy…

Gadgets Travis Hudson

DIY: PSP, GPS Connection

Finally, my PSP may actually become useful! This is a “simple” way to connect a GPS adapter to your PSP. It costs around $130, so it is a bit cheaper than most other GPS units. Here is what you need: • Holux GPSlim236 (~$100) • Intec G6704 PSP Remote Control (~$11). Alternatively you can rip…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Sony DR-BT10CX Wireless Stereo Headset Gets FCC A-Ok

Sony’s latest Bluetooth headset has gotten the big and mighty thumbs up from the FCC. This device is more than just a headset, it allows you to make and receive calls along with listening to stereo music on the go. Because this headset happens to be stereo-fied, it isnt completely wireless. There are two earbuds…

Tech News Travis Hudson

RockRidgeSound PST-02 PSP Dock

Joy to the world, another dock. At least this time it’s not for the iPod, but for the Sony PSP. From RockRidgeSound comes the PST-02 Sound Terminal, a PSP dock that tries to make us believe that 2.1-channel stereo sound is some sort of major scientific breakthrough. The dock, which will be available in both…

Tech News Nicholas Deleon

Reviewed: Sony Ericsson W300i (Verdict: Music-y)

Infosync World has a hands on with SE’s W300i Walkman phone. This one is clamshell, and budget minded, at about $300 dollars. They note wisely that it has the same screen, and OS as the other Walkman phones, so that means it’s solid, with great music playback. Available in July, for abou $300. They also…

Tech News Brian Lam

Sony CPF-IX001: Audio Streaming over Powerline like it’s 1999

Sony’s new audio streamer grabs tunes from a PC over WiFi, Ethernet, or powerline. That’s right, I said the words “New” and “Powerline” in the same coffee-tainted blog breath. Aside from being able to network over home power plugs and lines, there’s not much info in the press release. From the looks of it, the…

Tech News Brian Lam

Sony D-VE7000S DVD Walkman Reviewed (Verdict: Pacified Kids Ahoy)

The Sony DVD Walkman may support a lot of mainstream disc formats—DVD RW, CD RW and VCD—but its lack of DivX and XviD support may leave more advanced users looking elsewhere. Otherwise, the 5.1 audio sounds great, and the 7″ screen is enough for watching on the go. The only problem comes from the non-embedded…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sony to Ship BWU-100A Blu-ray Burner Next Month

Sony has rolled out an internal Blu-ray burner for computers, the BWU-100A, which writes both 25GB and 50GB BD-R and BD-RE (rewritable) disks at 2x speed. The company says a 25GB disk will take 30 minutes to burn at that 2x speed. In addition to those Blu-ray formats, the drive will also be capable of…

Tech News Charlie White

Sony’s HDR-UX1 and HDR-SR1: Two AVCHD Camcorders

The HDR-UX1 and the HDR-SR1 are two camcorders from Sony that take advantage of the AVCHD format. This High Definition format works with 8cm DVDs, flash memory or hard drive based storage. https://gizmodo.com/improved-hd-format-for-camcorders-173259 The first of the two camcorders, the HDR-UX1 records to 8cm Dual Layer DVDs that allow for up to 1 hour of…

Tech News Jason Chen

Kotaku Confirms Rumor: UMDs Pulled From Target Stores

Following up a post from yesterday, we heard a Target employee noticed prerecorded movies distributed on Sony UMDs (an acronym meaning UnMitigated Disaster, um, rather, Universal Media Disc) were suddenly absent from the store where he worked, and from other Target locations, too. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-sony-umd-movies-vanish-from-target-store-shelves-186796 Now our beloved brothers at Kotaku have found confirmation from another…

Tech News Charlie White

PS3 Cell Yields In The Toilet

In plain English, this means the PS3 Cell processor is so big and complicated, they’re having a hard time making enough to satisfy the demand. An IBM Semiconductor VP says they’re “lucky to get 10 or 20 percent” out of a chip like the Cell. The other 80-90 percent aren’t fit to be used in…

Tech News Jason Chen

Liquid-Cooled Sony Vaio XL100 Media Center

Sony has been pumping out these XL series Vaio media centers for quite some time now and still nobody seems to want to buy one, until now. First we saw the Vaio XL1 then we saw the Vaio XL2 and now they have jumped 98 models ahead with the latest, the Sony Vaio XL100. I’m…

Tech News Travis Hudson

Rumor: Sony UMD Movies Vanish from Target Store Shelves

Our pencil-necked gamester in-laws at Kotaku gathered a rumor today, where an employee of the vast retail empire Target noticed that Sony’s proprietary UMD movies had suddenly disappeared from his store. Could it be the doomed format’s death rattles are beginning to bear their certain, inevitable fruit? I work at a local Target store, at…

Tech News Charlie White

Sony Offers Camcorder Trade-Up Deal

Our beloved and ever-helpful second cousins twice removed at Lifehacker point us to Sony, offering a unique deal on camcorders that’s good until the end of this month. Take a look: “Trade-up a qualifying camcorder, Sony or not, and get an e-coupon to spend at sonystyle.com. Start by finding the value of your old technology…

Tech News Charlie White

Sony CFD-S01 Karaoke Boom Box

Sony’s looking to squeeze just a few more yen out of the CD player market with it CFD-S01. Not only does it play CDs, but it also plays cassettes! Hot dog! In addition to playing back optical audio discs and magnetic tapes, both of which are cutting edge technologies, it also had a Karaoke function,…

Gadgets Nicholas Deleon

Apple Logo On PS3 Site Flash Animation

This is a bit interesting. The flash movie intro for the Sony Playstation 3 site has one frame of Apple’s logo, flashed only for a second like those Simpsons in-jokes. What does this mean? Well, remember when Soy said their chip can run OS X? Maybe this is their way of telling everyone they’re still…

Tech News Jason Chen

K750i Available In Red From The UK

The popular Sony Ericsson K750i is available in Red, if you’re in the UK. You can get it at the Carphone Warehouse, located in Internetswebshire, UK. If you’re in the US and a really big fan of the 2 megapixel cameraphone and the color red, they’ll probably ship one to you for a little bit…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sony PSP 1.5 to 1.0 Downgrader Coming Tomorrow

If you’re not content in going from 2.6/2.5 to 1.5, a 1.5 to 1.0 downgrader is set to be released tomorrow. This original firmware that was released on the Japanese PSP at launch allows you to run unsigned eboot files sans exploits. Check here tomorrow to see if everything goes according to plan. https://gizmodo.com/sony-psp-where-a-downgrade-is-an-upgrade-184905 Check…

Tech News Jason Chen

Sony Alpha 100 DSLR Field Test (Verdict: Great Quality Images For A Price)

Low End Theory

Sony Reader Hands-On

DIY: PSP, GPS Connection

Sony DR-BT10CX Wireless Stereo Headset Gets FCC A-Ok

RockRidgeSound PST-02 PSP Dock

Reviewed: Sony Ericsson W300i (Verdict: Music-y)

Sony CPF-IX001: Audio Streaming over Powerline like it’s 1999

Sony D-VE7000S DVD Walkman Reviewed (Verdict: Pacified Kids Ahoy)

Sony to Ship BWU-100A Blu-ray Burner Next Month

Sony’s HDR-UX1 and HDR-SR1: Two AVCHD Camcorders

Kotaku Confirms Rumor: UMDs Pulled From Target Stores

PS3 Cell Yields In The Toilet

Liquid-Cooled Sony Vaio XL100 Media Center

Rumor: Sony UMD Movies Vanish from Target Store Shelves

Sony Offers Camcorder Trade-Up Deal

Sony CFD-S01 Karaoke Boom Box

Apple Logo On PS3 Site Flash Animation

K750i Available In Red From The UK

Sony PSP 1.5 to 1.0 Downgrader Coming Tomorrow

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