Sony and MP3, Together at Last
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The big news in digital audio recently was Sony&#39;s NW-HD3, the company&#39;s first hard-drive-based digital audio player to support the MP3 format right out of the box.
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No longer confined to technology fans and those ahead of the curve, MP3 players are entering mainstream society as prices fall and general consumers get used to them.
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Sony Corp 6758.T launched its first  MP3-compatible flash memory digital music players under the  Walkman name on Monday in the latest bid to reclaim the lead in  a market it has lost to Apple Computer's iPod.
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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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Sony Corp (6758.T) unveiled its first MP3-compatible, hard disk Walkman music player on Tuesday in an attempt to recover ground lost to Apple Computer's  iPod.
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Sony Europe has launched two tiny 512MB and 1GB MP3 players, the NW-E95 and NW-E99 Network Walkman. Both play MP3 (Sony has officially bit the mp3 bullet) and ATRAC3plus compressed files and have a small blue backlit LCD screen.
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Long after the advent of the video iPod, Sony has finally responded with a video Walkman, which it will release in April.
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Reg Review The world's first easily upgradeable MP3 device?
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Sony&#39;s new generation of digital music players play both its Atrac format and MP3s, allowing Japan&#39;s electronics giant to better compete with Apple&#39;s iPod.
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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 Corp 6758.T unveiled its first  MP3-compatible, hard disk Walkman music player on Tuesday in an  attempt to recover ground lost to Apple Computer's AAPL.O  iPod.
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Former execs from iriver, Musicmatch and Diamond Multimedia work in stealth mode on a new MP3 player that could be the first major advance in years. By Eliot Van Buskirk.
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Sony says its digital music players will now play MP3 format music tracks, and not just its own Atrac format. It is a major move for the electronics giant which has been criticised for only letting its own format be played.
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Microsoft&#39;s WMA, Apple&#39;s ACC, Sony&#39;s Altrac and others -- compete in a variety of digital music devices, support for MP3 is becoming a required ingredient for any successful portable player.
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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 tune seems to be changing ever so slowly at some record labels when it comes to DRM. Both out of consumer demand and to some extent necessity, some have begun to offer digital downloads in the unprotected MP3 format.
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Sony's first digital audio players to support MP3 files have been released in Europe in a significant change in strategy.