Sony Takes a New Crack at Dominating Video Online
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Lights, camera, upload! Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) announced today that its Grouper video-sharing site has been converted into a full-blown, multichannel &quot;streaming entertainment network&quot; for independent video creators, and is now called Crackle.
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The net is having to grow in order to meet fresh demands such as high definition video on the web.
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The HV20 makes even the cheesiest cat video look like it belongs on Discovery's HD Theater. Read Wired's take on this 1080i HD video powerhouse.
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Many of Sony's new Cybershot cameras offer an output for HDTVs.
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The company makes another move to compete against video on demand.
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The online video site Grouper, which Sony Corp. bought last year for $65 million, is exiting the crowded and risky user-generated video business and focusing on finding professional talent for Sony's film and TV studios.
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Company's emerging-markets group unveils a Web-based audio-video system designed for business use.
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Sony's PlayStation is to challenge Microsoft's Xbox in its one undisputed area of dominance - the online world.
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Sony Corp., the world leader in video  equipment, finds itself in the unusual position of playing  catch-up in the next battleground for technology used in  cameras, video recorders and phones.
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Sony is previewing a new camcorder that takes video in digital high-definition quality for consumers. The four pound (HDR-FX1) device is set to go one sale next month in Japan and around the world by the end of the year.
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As part of Sony's long-range plans for its newest gaming console, the PlayStation 3 will be getting a movie-download service as well as additional music and HDTV capabilities.
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A couple months ago, Pure Digital Technologies hinted to us that it would soon have a new version of its inexpensive, You-Tube friendly Flip digital camcorder, and good to its word, the company announced a new line this morning called the Flip Video Ultra
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Turner Classic Movies  has launched an online video destination devoted to classic  films.
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Sony has a long and colorful history of failure on the Internet, but there has been a bright spot.
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(InfoWorld) - Sony plans to launch an online video download service next year, according to reports in both the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal newspapers. The service has been developed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and will allow users to download movies via a computer and store them on MemoryStick memory cards for viewing on the PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld games device, said the Financial Times. Amazon.com and existing movie download sites like Movielink and CinemaNow are in talks with Sony to use the service, which will launch in the first quarter of 2007, the newspaper reported in its online edition. Sony is also working on a service that would allow downloads directly to the PSP, said The Wall Street Journal's online edition. Spokespersons for both Sony and Sony Computer Entertainment in Tokyo deferred requests for comment to the company's U.S. offices, which were closed. Sony has already tried to expand the PlayStation Portable's uses beyond gaming to movies. It began offering movies on the small discs used by the PSP but sales have been low and the movies never caught on among many users. The PlayStation Portable was launched in late 2004 and initially enjoyed strong sales. By the end of March 2005 shipments had reached 3 million units and jumped to over 14 million units in the year from April 2005. But things soon started going wrong for the new device and sales began dropping. In the current year, from April 2006 to March 2007, Sony initially expected sales to drop to 12 million units but in October revised its forecast to 9 million units. The successful launch of a movie download service could help flagging sales of PSP hardware and give Sony something to begin to challenge Apple Computer's iTunes Store, where iPod owners can download video clips, TV shows and some movies. Sony doesn't offer a video version of its Walkman music player leaving it unable to compete with Apple on the video front.
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The consumer electronics maker said it introduced a new version of its Walkman that includes the ability to play digital video.
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By Elizabeth M. Gillespie  Microsoft Corp. is hoping to tap the explosive popularity of online video sharing by joining start-ups and major Internet rivals with its own video service.