Sony on Collision Course with Music Majors over MP3
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including its own Sony BMG venture - over the MP3 song format. Sony is considering manufacturing devices that play digital
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The electronics giant will finally support the MP3 format. Is it too little, too late?
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Rival technologies that baffle consumers  will run more companies out of business in the nascent music  download market than will head-to-head competition, one of the  lead creators of MP3 playback technology warned on Wednesday.
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Support for MP3 will first appear in solid state players based on flash memory Sony plans to release this year. Sony has long insisted its digital music players support only its proprietary ATRAC format, but
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Sony&#39;s apparently gotten the message: Some of its new MP3 player models will feature direct support for MP3 in addition to its proprietary ATRAC format.
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Sony U-turns and plans MP3 support for its players Pocket-lint.co.uk
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Hammered by iPod, Sony will retool, adding native MP3 support to some digital music players by next summer.
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The company will begin selling music downloads in the MP3 format, at least in North America. Sony says it has no plans to drop copy protection elsewhere.
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Sony is on a roll after the announcement that some of its digital audio players will now support MP3 files. Up to now, they only supported the company&#39;s proprietary ATRAC3plus format, a technology used in its Mini Disc players.
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Someone at Sony has wisened up and decided to add MP3 support to their new NW-HD3 player slated for release in December. &quot;Sony is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range.
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In a major strategic reversal, Sony Corp. said Wednesday it plans to add support for MP3 music files to some of its portable music players.
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The decision by a group of European labels to legally challenge the European Commission's approval of the Sony/BMG merger could raise questions for future deals.
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com October 18, 2004, 4:37 PM PT. SAN FRANCISCO--Fasten your seatbelts--the next stop for the MP3 revolution is your car. That was the consensus of a group of mobile electronics executives
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Consumer electronics giant Sony Corp. said on Thursday it is mulling a major strategic shift to make digital music devices that play MP3 song files.
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Sony BMG will start selling music downloads in the copy-protection-free MP3 format later this month in North America, as even the last holdout among the major record labels crumbled to the growing trend.
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NEW YORK - It&#39;s not lack of choice that is the problem when trying to choose a digital music player, it&#39;s rather the opposite.
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The dizzying array of file formats and anti-piracy options will hobble the burgeoning digital music business, says one of the developers behind the format that sparked the download revolution.