Sony Admits Defeat, Supports MP3

[Kent Pribbernow]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.com.com/Sony+retuning+to+pick+up+MP3s/2100-1041_3-5408476.html?tag=nefd.top' target='_blank'>http://news.com.com/Sony+retuning+to+pick+up+MP3s/2100-1041_3-5408476.html?tag=nefd.top</a><br /><br /></div><i>"As previously reported, Sony flash-based digital audio players will support the MP3 file format by the middle of next year, the executives said. The company also is considering the use of other formats in its devices, according to Stan Glasgow, president of Sony Electronics consumer and commercial sales. The look and feel of the software used with its devices and its music download service, Sony Connect, also will undergo major improvements, according to Glasgow who declined to comment on the details of the changes."</i><br /><br />And the truth shall set you free. Mark this day on your calendar as the day Sony got a clue. The company has finally realized that it lost the digital media format war. ATRAC is a dead inferior technology that no one wants. And if Sony wants to take on iPod, it has to rethink its product strategy. NOW! Watch out, Apple. 8)

[JTWise]

If they only would have thought about this before they put out their 20gig Walkman they would have been serious competition to the Ipod.

Next in line - that damn memorystick :wink:.

I think "Sony" means proprietary in Japanese.

Seriously, there is no doubt that Sony makes some great and innovative products, but I just can't see myself getting sucked in to the proprietary black whole that is Sony. I bought a Cannon G2 instead of a Sony camera because I could use all of my existing industry standard CF cards. I really like the specs of the upcoming PSP, but once again it will feature a proprietary optical disc that is useless in any other product. Sony needs to wake up and realize that its codecs aren't the only proprietary product that needs to die a quick death. :bad-words:

[Jonathon Watkins]

Ha! As predicted weeks ago. :D

Agreed, Sony make good stuff, but it's proprietary. No thanks Sony. Not untill you learn to play nice. :wink: