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Sonus Faber Resurrects Long-Discontinued Speaker with New 30th Anniversary Edition
Bob Ankosko  |  Jul 29, 2024
Sonus faber is offering a sneak peek at a special 30th Anniversary edition of its Concertino bookshelf speaker, which enjoyed a nice 13-year run between 1994 and in 2007 before being discontinued.
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Sony A95L QD-OLED TVs Get PlayStation Remote Play
Bob Ankosko  |  Sep 14, 2023
It’s surprising that it has taken this long but Sony is finally leveraging its crown jewel — the $26 billion PlayStation business — in the high-performance Bravia XR A95L series of QD-OLED TVs announced in March.
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Sony Announces 2015 4K Ultra HD TV Lineup
Bob Ankosko  |  Apr 20, 2015
Sony has announced six new series of 4K Ultra HD TVs, four of which are available for pre-order with delivery set for May.

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Sony Claims Two Wins in 2023 Headphone Shootout
Bob Ankosko  |  Feb 28, 2023
Value Electronics, the Scarsdale, NY-based AV retailer that made a name for itself hosting annual TV Shootouts, has announced the winners of its first Headphone Shootout, held yesterday in New York City. Sony grabbed a win in the over-ear and in-ear categories and was joined by winning models from Bowers & Wilkins, Focal, and Sennheiser.
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Sony Previews 4-Speaker Home Theater System, New Flagship Soundbar
Bob Ankosko  |  Aug 02, 2021
Sony is previewing a new flagship Dolby Atmos-capable soundbar and home theater system that creates an immersive sound field from four compact speakers. Both are due out early fall.
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Sony Previews Lower-Cost Modular MicroLED Displays
Bob Ankosko  |  Feb 02, 2023
Yesterday’s announcement of a new ES line of AV receivers was big news for fans of Sony audio products but the company also recently revealed plans to start shipping two new series of modular MicroLED displays in March under its high-end Crystal LED banner.
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Sony Refreshes ES Series AV Receiver Lineup with First 8K Models
Bob Ankosko  |  Feb 01, 2023
Sony announced five new AV receivers, four in its upscale ES series, at a press meeting today in Austin, Texas.
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Sony Reveals Pricing & Availability for Bravia XR TVs
Bob Ankosko  |  May 02, 2023
Sony has announced pricing and shipment details for the 2023 Bravia XR lineup of mini-LED, LED, and OLED TVs it previewed in March. Seven mini-LED and OLED models are either available to order now or will be available for preorder in the coming weeks with LED-based models coming later in the year.
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Sony Unveils Soundbars and Budget AV Receivers
Bob Ankosko  |  Apr 24, 2015
Sony this week announced pricing and availability of two new budget AV receivers and four soundbars, including the high-end HT-ST9 that will list for $1,500 when it hits stores in July.

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Premiere Design
Sony XBR-84X900 4K LCD HDTV: 1080p? Pfff…4K Is Like Being There
Bob Ankosko  |  Nov 19, 2012
OK, you can stop drooling now. We know you can’t wait to get your hands on the world’s first TV capable of displaying 8 million pixels of luscious detail—four times the resolution of 1080p. (We can’t, either.) Sony’s 84-inch XBR-84X900 4K LCD HDTV is one of the first 4K TVs to reach a handful of stores across the country. The heart of the set is a new chip that analyzes images with resolutions of 1080p or lower and upscales them to 4K. How well the chip performs that task is vitally important since 4K content for home viewing is not likely to be available for some time, even though Sony says 10,000 U.S. movie theaters are already using 4K projectors, and a growing number of theatrical movies are being shot in 4K.
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