Is Sony in the Groove?
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Sony&#39;s (NYSE: SNE) tweaking its musical strategy, with reports galore that the electronics giant will now support the playback of MP3 files on many of its digital music players.
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Media & professional: File-sharing has holed the record industry below the waterline. So why does private equity guru Guy Hands want to buy EMI?
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Sony executives yesterday said they &quot;fell asleep&quot; in the portable music market - but the company is awake now. Sony plans to improve its position in the market by next year, promising a range of products that aim at Apple&#39;s iPod.
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Sony Electronics has released the first of its digital audio players to support the popular MP3 format, marking a significant shift in its music strategy.
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Sony Corp. (6758.T)  said on  Wednesday it sees its electronics sales growth outpacing the  industry in the current fiscal year, fueled by demand for big  televisions and digital cameras, while a decline in component  pricing could benefit profits.
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The MP3 design modification is a major move for Sony, which has been criticized for a product that only allows its own format to be played.
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| December 20, 2004. With digital music players and digital cameras being two of the hottest sellers in consumer electronics, it&#39;s a wonder that it has taken so long for hardware makers to marry the technologies.
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THE GIZMO: Hot stuff from Sony.  While most manufacturers unfurl their best and brightest new items at the Consumer Electronics Show, Sony holds back some of its niftiest inventions for its dealer line show. Here's what the insiders discovered last week in Las Vegas.
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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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Edging cautiously into the water where Amazon, Apple's iTunes, eMusic and other services are already frolicking, Sony BMG Music has announced plans to offer a tiny set of DRM-free tracks online... if you go to one of their brick-and-mortar stores first.
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Sony's Blu-ray technology is emerging as the likely winner in the format battle for the next generation of DVD players after Toshiba appeared ready to ditch its HD DVD business
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Sony is the last of the four big record labels that have abandoned digital rights management software that limits how many times copies can be made of digital music.
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According to various news reports, Sony is likely to enter the movie-download market soon, putting the company in competition with Apple's iTunes, Microsoft's Xbox Live, and several other movie-download services.
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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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Yeah, theyâre saying Sonyâs two new players wonât make you deal with that ridiculous SonicStage MP3 to ATRAC converstion stuff anymore, and itâs being reported that the two new players will be among the first to natively support MP3.
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Sony's upcoming gaming device earns mostly positive reviews from the crowd.
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Hammered by iPod, Sony will retool, adding native MP3 support to some digital music players by next summer.