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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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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Maybe you were one of the many who stood in line waiting for your first chance to own a PlayStation 3. Perhaps you were also one of the many looking to sell it for triple its selling price or more. In any event, there could be more dissatisfied Sony customers today than satisfied ones. So in the history of product launches, does this one count as a fizzle? Or is it too soon to tell?
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Sony on Wednesday bolstered its support for Apple's iPod by introducing a new boombox and clock radio that enable customers to plug their iPods directly into the devices. Once a fierce rival of Apple, Sony is now taking the position that the iPod is like a CD and has decided to embrace it.
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Sony's egg-shaped audio entertainment player gyrates in time to music, has 1GB of memory and Bluetooth capability.
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Sony makes the body a living capacitator by sending audio signals through it. From Crave, CNET's gadget blog.
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It has been 25 years since Sony launched the original Walkman, now the portable entertainment scene is going through a energetic renaissance, but this time it is digital.
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But, if the digital music player becomes as ubiquitous as the VCR, at least there won&#39;t be thousands of us forever cursing: &#39;I bought a bloody Sony.
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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&#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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Will the competing next-generation optical disc standards ever meet in the same device? Not for now, it seems.
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Sony's trying to encourage sales. But do consumers care about video?
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With sales of digital music players skyrocketing, is it any wonder that hardware makers are scrambling to create the next big portable entertainment gizmo?
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The consumer electronics company backs a technology lauded by Sony and others, as the DVD format battle heats up.
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By David Lieberman  NEW YORK -- Some 19 years after CBS sold its recorded music operation to Sony, the TV network company is getting back into the music business -- but with a more contemporary beat.
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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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Tycho:  Stop whatever you're doing right now and watch this video - offered in HD for Windows Media or Quicktime.  That's Level 5's White Knight Story, and I must stress for readers that Level 5 is in no way fucking around.  That's how you sell us a Goddamn Playstation 3.  We are almost impervious to many of the brands that define Sony's hardware:  for us, Metal Gear Solid and Gran Turismo emit no will crushing pheromones.  Compare that to the White Knight clip, which is a fairly comprehensive tour of my private desires.