Sony's 2006 Las Vegas Round-Up

[Damion Chaplin]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.designtechnica.com/featured_article51.html' target='_blank'>http://news.designtechnica.com/featured_article51.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Sony Electronics held their annual open house in Las Vegas in mid-March to show off their 2006 product line up. While there were the usual announcements of new home theater systems, televisions and the like, the big news of the day focused on their next generation Blu-ray Disc products, which the consumer electronics giant is betting big bucks will herald a new wave of revenue for it in coming years."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/sonytableradio.jpg" /> <br /><span>The Sony "The Radio"</span><br /><br />Oh, it's all about the Blu-ray for Sony this year. Except someone somewhere in the back decided to play a joke and recommend they put out a monaural table radio and call it "The Radio". Who would have thought they'd actually do it? Oh yeah, we're talking Sony here. Oh well. They do have some interesting TV and Monitor offerings as usual, this time with HDMI and DVI-HDCP, respectively. If you're interested in what's coming down the pipe from Sony this year, give the article a read.

[Philip Colmer]

Except someone somewhere in the back decided to play a joke and recommend they put out a monaural table radio and call it "The Radio". Who would have thought they'd actually do it? Oh yeah, we're talking Sony here.
Not a Sony fan, eh, Damion :D.

If you are going to buy a radio for your kitchen or bedroom, would you really honestly actually care whether it played in stereo or mono? I don't think I would! Trying to be objective, this looks like a stylish, neat radio that wouldn't look out of place in most bedrooms, which is where it is designed to go. Sony have also tried to provide flexibility for the customer by incorporating features such as an audio input if you want to listen to an iPod or similar, plus battery backup for the alarm so that it still goes off even if there is a power cut.

On the Blu-ray side, I hope that BWU-100A computer drive isn't too expensive when it comes out. The disc prices are, unfortunately, quite high, but it will be nice to have a recordable media that is finally large enough to hold the entire content of a DV or HDV tape. That will make a big difference to how I archive my video projects in future.

--Philip