If you guys need an evidence of Sony mounting its entertainment sphere, you must have a look at their booth at the CES 2007 show at Las Vegas. The renowned company shows its extreme entertainment vision at the event by announcing a horde of entertainment products including full HD products, displays, media PC, camcorders, and many more digital gadgets.
Here is a brief overview of the different products showcased by Sony at the CES event at its 100,000 square-foot exhibit.
Vaio WA1 to un-tether music and Internet radio
Priced at $350 and coming in black and white flavors, the Sony’s new WA1 Wireless Digital Music Streamer lets you listen to the digital music files in any of your room thorough your PC to a WiFi equipped box. Compatible with ATRAC music format and many other third party formats, the streamer can be connected to internet radio stations via Live365.com. The device comes along with a remote control, a five-line LCD, line-in, analog and S/PDIF audio out, a headphone jack and a music alarm clock function.
32GB Vaio UX Premium Micro PC
Sony announced a flash based version of its VAIO UX Micro PC named Vaio UX Premium Micro PC at the CES show. The device, headed for US market, run Vista and offer support for 1.3GHz Intel Core Solo U1500 processor, a 4.5-inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, 1GB of RAM, a 32GB solid state disk, a Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11g, USB 2.0, Firewire, and Memory Stick Duo memory card slots. the Vista-ready device will retail for about $2,500.
XL3 media PC with Blu-ray disk technology announced
Sony announced a high definition living room PC named XL3 media PC that is equipped with Blu-ray Disk technology. The new digital living system will let you watch movies, with HD lucidity and allows you to record and playback the content on high-capacity BD media. The new system rocks an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GTL graphics card, 2GB of RAM, four flash card slots, four USB ports, two FireWire ports, and Ethernet, plus HDMI, and yes, a Blu-ray burner. Priced at $3,300, VAIO XL3 Digital Living System will hit the shelves in crimson black in March.
Sony Bravia Internet Video link for HD
The year 2006 witnessed the growth of broadband internet video and Sony has now revealed Bravia Internet Video Link at the CES show that will let all the new Sony’s TVs to access free internet video including high definition content from AOL, Yahoo!, and Sony Entertainment. The BRAVIA Internet Video Link will at first be supported by Sony’s BRAVIA S-series flat-panel LCD high-definition television series.
Sony’s Blu-ray attack at HD-DVD, 82-inch BRAVIA LCD Prototype and 27′ 1080p OLED
Let’s talk big. Sony showcased its wide prototype of 82-incher Bravia LCD that goes forth its 70-incher. The company also showed 16 models ranging from 23′ to 52′ screens. The so called ‘razor-thin’ form factor was shown with the 27 inh OLED that could do 1080p. Anyway, the pictured here is 70-incher Bravia LCD. Other than that, Sony also revealed its plans to manufacture most of its HDTVs to with full (1080p, 1920×1080 progressive) HD resolution in future. This seems to be the Sony’s next Blu-ray attack at HD-DVD.
World’s largest HDTV compliant with x.v. Color
Sony Electronics announced a 70-inch flat-panel, high-definition LCD television that is claimed to be the world’s largest TV compliant with x.v.Color technology at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The new KD-70XBR3 LCD offers a blend of full HD 1920 x 1080 progressive resolution and Motionflow 120 Hz technology with motion compensation. Other key specs of the beast are wide 178-degree viewing angle, 10-bit video processing and Triluminos LED backlight. Priced at $33,000, the KD-70XBR3 LCD will start shipping this February.
Sony Consumer DVD camcorder series upgraded
At the CES show, Sony announced its updated consumer DVD camcorder line with four new handycams dubbed DCR-DVD108, DVD308, DVD408, and DVD508. The notable update in all the four models, from the low-end DVD108 to the full featured DVD508, is the addition of dual layer. All the four models can write into both dual layer DVD+-R/RW and offer two times the recording time on a single disc. The Sony handycam DVD108 and DVD308 will ship for $450 and $550 respectively while the DVD405 and DVD505 are expected to drop in March 2007 with price tags of $700 and $900 respectively.
Sony Vaio VGX-TP1 equipped with HDMI out, DVD burner
Due to hit the shelves in March for a price of $1600, the new Vaio VGX-TP1 was announced by Sony at the CES show. The media PC not only boasts cute looks but it packs mighty features too including an HDMI out port, a DVD burner, a memory card slot, wireless keyboard, USB ports, and audio out.
