Sony Takes on iPod with New Hard Disk Walkman
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Sony Corp (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) unveiled its first MP3-compatible, hard disk Walkman music player on Tuesday in an
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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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According to a report by Think Secret, Apple is putting the finishing touches on a new iPod, complete with 2-inch color LCD screen and photo viewing capabilities. The device will boast a 60GB hard drive, iPhoto synchronization, along with a video-out port for connecting the iPod to external viewing devices such as a television. The new iPod will likely be announced within the next 60 days, with a reatail price of $499 USD.
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(InfoWorld) - Eighteen months after rival AppleÂ  raised the bar in the music player market with itsÂ video iPod, Sony will launch its first digital video Walkman. The NW-A800 series Walkman will initially go on sale in Europe in April. They'll appear later in other markets but timing hasn't yet been decided, Sony in Tokyo said Friday. For Europe there are three models: the NW-A805, A806, and A808. The only major difference is in the amount of flash memory, which is 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB, respectively. The screen is a 2-inch LCD (liquid crystal display) panel with QVGA resolution (240 pixels by 320 pixels). It's orientated in portrait form rather than the landscape form used on the iPod, but videos can be viewed with the device either held vertically or horizontally, said Sony. Audio playback in a number of flavors of Sony's ATRAC compression is possible, and Sony supplies software for converting Windows Media Audio, MP3 and WAV files to ATRAC. It's also possible to directly load MP3 files onto the Walkman, but battery life will be shorter. For video the Walkman plays back MPEG4 H.264/AVC encoded files. Playback time on a fully-charged battery differs depending on the type of files. For audio its roughly 30 hours for ATRAC files encoded at 132KbpsÂ while for video its seven hours for MPEG4 files encoded at 768Kbps. Video files at lower bit rates will take up less space in the memory but also make the Walkman work a little harder on the decoding, so the time drops to about six hours and 30 minutes for a 384Kbps file, according to Sony's figures. The Walkman measures 44 millimeters wide by 88mm high and is 9mm thick. It weighs 53 grams. The NW-A805 is listed on Sony's online store for â¬180 ($237), the NW-A806 for â¬230 and the NW-A808 for â¬300. In comparison Apple's 30GB iPod costs â¬289 in Germany. The two products are difficult to compare on price alone, however, because the iPod has a larger screen and is also bulkier and heavier than the new Sony Walkman. Sony historians will note that the new product is not actually Sony's first Walkman to support video. That recognition goes to the GV-8 "Video Walkman" that was put on sale in August 1998 and played back Video 8 cassettes from camcorders. It cost Â¥118,200 (approximately $820 using the historical exchange rate). Â
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Tacit admission of defeat IFA 07 Sony will next year kill off its Connect digital music download service, Register Hardware has learned. Its Walkman products will instead use Windows Media technology, the consumer electronics giant told its customers today.â¦
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Blog: Sony has taken the wraps off the ICF-C1iP clock radio and ZS-S2iP boombox, both of which feature docks for Apple's iPod music player--rival to Sony's once dominant Walkman brand.
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NEW YORK - If there&#39;s one thing that makes Sony&#39;s Network Walkman seem superior to Apple Computer&#39;s iPod, at least at first glance, it&#39;s the issue of size versus storage capacity.
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Toshiba has announced a new and improved 40Gb and 80Gb version of its small hard drive found in the Apple iPod. Toshiba claims the new drives are the world&#39;s first hard disk drives based on perpendicular recording
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Sony (NYSE: SNE) has introduced its first MP3-based flash-memory digital music players under the Walkman brand in an effort to capture a share of the portable digital music player market currently dominated by Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPod device.
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Consumer electronics maker Sony Corp.   on Thursday said it introduced a new U.S. version of  its Sony Walkman that includes the ability to play digital  video, the latest potential rival to Apple Inc.'s   dominant iPod media player.
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Sony is finally out with their first direct assault on the famed Apple iPod digital music player. As reported earlier, Sony has gone ahead and released their first MP3 supported Walkman.
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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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Under the tested and true name of &quot;Walkman&quot;, Sony is launching its new MP3 compatible player. The device is the company&#39;s secret weapon in trying to reclaim its
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Sony has launched two flash memory digital music players that carry the Walkman brand in Europe. The Walkman NW-E99 and NW-E95 take aim at rival Apple&#39;s iPod Minis.
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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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Toshiba has announced an 80GB version of the 1.8in hard drives used in the iPod. The drive sets a new capacity record for its size and combines several developments including a new magnetic disk structured
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Consumer electronics giant Sony Corporation has reversed its policy and now says that it will support the popular MP3 file format for some of its portable music players.