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Sony's Paper-Thin OLED
SV Staff  |  Apr 16, 2008
Sony just OLED the cat out of the bag. At a display expo in Japan this week - one that U.S. consumers and enthusiasts are hardly aware of - Sony showed that it can do a lot better than its 11-inch, 3mm thick XEL-1 OLED TV (which is already ahead of...
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Sony's Seven New BRAVIA Sets
SV Staff  |  Jun 06, 2008
The Sony Bravia line is expanding with bold new models, and new sizes in previous product lines. These new Bravia XBR flat-panel LCD HDTVs bring the total number of Bravia TVs to thirty, with sizes that range from 19 inches all the way up to 70...
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Sony's Stringer
SV Staff  |  Aug 05, 2008
Sony is one of the most recognized, and respected, corporate names in the world. How many Sony products do you have at home? But when's the last time you bought a Sony product? The electronics juggernaut struggled to cope with monumental...
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Sony's Super Bowl Bundle
SV Staff  |  Jan 22, 2009
Come on - you know you want to watch the Super Bowl on a shiny new HDTV, right? Your friends want it too.Right now, Sony has a super Super Bowl special through Amazon.com.  Purchase a select XBR or V-Series BRAVIA HDTV and a Sony BDP-S550...
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Sony's Ultra-Rich 4K Projectors
SV Staff  |  Sep 18, 2008
Have you been lusting for the best in the biz? Always trying to outdo your neighbors? Instead of keeping up with the Jones', wanna knock it out of the park? Sony just introduced two new 4K projectors that are bound to impress, with resolution of...
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Sony's Ultra-Ultra-Thin OLED TV
SV Staff  |  May 28, 2008
Ultra-ultra thin. That's not a typo. Just a lack of words to describe what happens when you take an ultra-thin screen and make it 1/10th its original thickness. If you thought that Sony's XEL-1 OLED display was thin at 3.0mm, what do you think...
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Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo: HD @ E3
Scott Wilkinson  |  May 20, 2005

Normally, <I>UAV</I> wouldn't pay much attention to the Electronic Entertainment Expo, otherwise known as E3, being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, May 17-20, 2005. But at this year's show, there were some announcements that perked up my ears a bit: new game consoles from the Big Three (Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo), at least some of which will have high-def capabilities, making them much more interesting to home theater buffs.

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Sony, Samsung Adopt Microsoft PlayReady
Mark Fleischmann  |  Mar 24, 2011
A new form of digital rights management from Microsoft has been adopted by Sony and Samsung, among others. Its first high-profile use is in the Sony BDP-S380 Blu-ray player, available since February.

PlayReady DRM allows downloading and streaming of video, audio, games, and images on multiple home and mobile devices. Supported formats include MPEG Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), AAC+, Enhanced AAC+, H.264, Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV). Embedded licenses allow content to play without a constantly active broadband connection.

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Sony, TCI Show FED Flat Tube
Mark Fleischmann  |  Apr 10, 2007
A next-generation flat-tube display called FED may give videophiles much of what we had hoped for from the frustratingly delayed SED.
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Sony: 3D 4K in 09
SV Staff  |  Oct 03, 2008
At a press event yesterday evening in Sony Pictures' Culver City, California, headquarters, Sony took the chance not only to tout its latest advances in digital cinema, but also to show how those advances could make 3D commonplace in movie theaters...
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Sony: Get FED in 2009
Mark Fleischmann  |  Jul 08, 2008
Field Emission Display technology, developed by Sony and Motorola, will make its debut in 2009. While its initial use will be in the broadcast and medical arenas, the FED may also put ultra-flat tubes on the longterm wish lists of consumers.
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Sony: HD Movie Downloads a Fad?
SV Staff  |  Jun 09, 2008
Talk about optimism. Howard Stringer, CEO of Sony, is quoted in The New York Times saying that he thinks that Blu-ray discs don't need to worry about digital downloads. What planet is he living on? In the NYT article, Stringer said, "I don't...
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Sony: Moth Tech + Blu-ray = Glare-free TV
SV Staff  |  Mar 19, 2008
Sony appears to be taking inspiration from Japanese fictional monster Mothra in the design of its latest use of Blu-ray technology. Or, at least, from common moths. Sony plans to use Blu-ray laser manufacturing to produce a type of bumpy film...
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Sony: On to the Video
SV Staff  |  Aug 30, 2007
Whoulda thunk that the company that invented the portable music player would years later play catch up to a computer company and some of its biggest TV rivals? But that's what happened to Sony and the Walkman in the digital age. Today's...
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Sony: What Movies Do You Want to See on 4K Blu-ray
SV Staff  |  Jun 19, 2019
Listen up movie fans: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment wants to know which movies you would like to see on 4K/Ultra HD Blu-ray.
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