Neuer BRAVIA Werbespot

Der dritte BRAVIA Werbespot ist fertig und kann unter www.bravia-advert.com angesehen werden. Leider habe ich noch keinen Link zum download gefunden.



Sehr sehenswert ist auch das Making-of. Der Aufwand für den Spot war enorm... aber es hat sich gelohnt.

Wer den 2. BRAVIA Spot herunterladen will findet hier die Links dazu.

Rolly ist da.

Und mit "da" meine ich in meinen Händen.

Frisch aus Japan (Danke Weasel!) hier erst mal ein paar Bilder von Sonys "Sound Entertainment Player".
Die edle Verpackung erinnert stark an ein Apple Produkt.
Ah ja. So geht das.
Rolly's Innenleben.

Die Soundqualität - und vorallem die Lautstärke - ist beeindruckend. Ebenso das Gewicht... für so ein kleines Gerät ist es ziemlich schwer. Aber Rolly ist ja auch nicht für die Hosentasche gedacht.

Die Nachricht, dass Sony Sonicstage (endlich) zu Grabe getragen hat, ist anscheindend bei den Entwicklern nicht angekommen: Sonicstage wird benötigt um Rolly mit Musik zu füttern.

Auch lässt sich die "Motion Editing" Software nur mit einem Japanischen Windows installieren. Mit VMWare sollte dies aber klappen, mehr dazu demnächst.

R.I.P SonicStage?

Etwas besseres als das hätte zum "relaunch" von allthingssony.com (now in german) wohl gar nicht passieren können.

ATRACLife (alles rund um Sony Portable Music Player) berichtet mal wieder über einen neuen MP3 Player von Sony (BD100 Serie).
Das alleine wäre ja grundsätzlich schonmal interessant. Mit dem was aber jetzt berichtet wird, hätte wohl niemand gerechnet.

Es scheint so als hätte Sony endlich nachgegeben: SonicStage wird nicht mehr benötigt um Musik auf den Player zu laden.
Nochmal: SonicStage wird nicht mehr benötigt um Musik auf den Player zu laden. Musik kann einfach per drag & drop kopiert werden.

Noch viel interessanter ist jedoch die angebliche Tatsache, dass Sonys ATRAC Format NICHT unterstützt wird und der Player nur MP3, WMA und möglicherweise AAC abspielt.



Das Teil soll schon nächsten Monat erscheinen und die Sony-üblichen features wie OLED Display und Radio beinhalten.

Review: NW-S706F Digital Music Player

A modest name for the player introducing new technology in its segment. Released - and bought in Tokyo (-: - in four colours to the Japanese market on October 21st, the player has the following features:

• noise canceling
  
• 1 to 4 GB flash storage
• colour display
• Li-ion battery
  
• neck strap
  
• ships with SonicStage 4.1 CP (native MP3/WMA/AAC/ATRAC3 support)
• a FM radio (who will use this anyway, DAB is just around the corner..)
  

After some weeks of usage, I'm very happy with it. The SonicStage software remains the cumbersome part; importing cover art from the web is still a semi-manual process and for reasons unknown to me, some pics get transferred to the player while others do not.



The internal battery is charged over USB and lasts well a week, with activated noise canceling - Don't expect miracles out of this feature. It's doing a good job to render low frequency background-noise away, yet fails on short mid- to high-frequencies. A plus when commuting by train, plane or listening to music when vacuumcleaning - As the Sony commercial states, every moment has its music...

The design is an eye-catcher for sure, as the display virtually disappears when shut off. If you don't care so much for battery life, you can let some nice coloured dots fly to the rhythm of your music.

Neuer BRAVIA Spot ist fertig

Der neuste BRAVIA Spot ist fertig. Es ist, wie der erste, sehr gut gelungen und zeigt ein paar wunderschöne Bilder.

Die direkten Links zum download:

• High Resolution (1280x720)
  
• Medium Resolution (700x394)
  
• Low Resolution (320x180)
  

Die bravia-advert Website enthält ein paar Making-of videos und ebenso den berühmten "bouncing-ball" Spot.

Danke an Frits Schnuerbel für den Tipp.

New Walkman NW-S706

Sony is going to intruduce a new Walkman, the NW-S706, with a storage capacity of 4GB soon. The design seems to be based on the old NW-A series with a bit from the NW-S series.

Some highlights:

• 4GB Flash memory
  
• Quick charge function (as usual)
• 50 Hours battery life (not so usual)
• Line - in recording
• Color display
  
• 3 colors: Black, Pink, and Purple

If you mix this:

with this:

You get a new Walkman...with a reeeally tiny color screen.

Sony is going official with this new Walkman around the 12th of this month according to an insider (read: some guy on the internet).

Credit goes to: dapreview.com.

Sony World 2006

Last weekend I attended the "Sony World 2006" in Zurich. Altough there weren't really any new products shown, it was nice to see (and touch) them all in person.

Here are some random pictures of the event...


I am sooo wanting one of these!

The PS3 was there too...but a view through the vent holes have confirmed my belief that this was just an empty case. The real ones (all 10 of it) are probably all in Tokyo at the TGS. Also it showed the same (fantasy) game play shown at E3 2005. Nevertheless, it was nice to see this beauty with my own eyes.

I would need to move into a new appartment to have enough space for this monster. This rear projector has an amazing picture quality, the colors and sharpness are fantastic.


Sony Pictures was there too, promoting the newest James Bond movie "Casino Royal".


You also had the chance to play around with the new Walkman. This could definately be a winner, featuring a very unique shape AND fingernail-matching colors.


The Esprit line is probably the most weird(I am still not sure if I just want to call it garbage) product of Sony since their intruduction of the Mouse Phone (which also could be seen at the show). This TV is -when you're not watching- hiding the screen behind his speakers.

Check out this video of this...uhm...thing.

Sleep well, Aibo (1999 - 2005)

To bring back Sony on track, Howard Stringer (CEO) announced some time ago to cut 10'000 Jobs and slim down Sonys product line. I am not aware which product lines will be ceased, but after reading todays news that Sony has reported better-than-expected quarterly results it seems it will hit Aibo.

So sleep well Aibo, I always wanted you to be my friend. But unfortunately you were more expensive than about 3 real dogs.

If you are intrested in Sonys profit report, check out this Reuters article.

New Sony Ericsson K800i shots

Rumor has it the soon-to-be-released K800i will sport a 3.2 megapixel camera, QVGA display and 512 MB internal memory. Intresting thing is the could-be-real picture of the menu which features an icon looking very similar to a Playstation Portable.