Create Your Own Digital Lifestyle With Sony at Comdex `99; Sony Style and Innovation Makes AV/IT Convergence Faster and More Fun.LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1999-- Sony's Comdex showcase (COMDEX Booth L5132) is a "Manual for Digital Living" - a practical approach for creating digital lifestyles by linking the worlds of audio, video, computers and communications at work, at home and on-the-go. The exhibit extends Sony's leadership in AV/IT convergence by demonstrating the benefits of the company's key networking technologies: Memory Stick(R) - the ultra-compact, removable media In computer storage, removable media refers to storage media which can be removed from its reader device, conferring portability on the data it carries. A removable drive is a reader device for such media. designed to easily capture, save and share digital pictures, music and information; and i.LINK(R) - the high-speed home networking solution that seamlesslyi Aoki, president of Sony Electronics Sony Electronics Inc., headquartered in San Diego, Calif., is the largest component of Sony Corporation of America, the U.S. holding company for Sony's U.S.-based electronics and entertainment businesses. Inc. "More than ever before, Sony is providing consumers with the tools to construct their own digital lifestyle with the bricks of AV and IT and the mortar of networking technologies and services. Through such Sony innovations as Memory Stick media and i.LINK interface, consumers have easy-to-use and fun ways to create and share images, sound, information and entertainment across products, platforms and applications." The centerpiece of Sony's exhibit is a special theatre presentation supported by three arenas and stages each dedicated to: Memory Stick media, the i.LINK interface, and VAIO (Video Audio Integrated Operation) Sony's trade name for its desktop and laptop PCs. In mid-1998, Sony introduced its 505G series of subnotebooks that were the first in ultra-thin Pentium portables. (R) PCs seamlessly integrated with cutting-edge AV and IT products and applications. Memory Stick: Personal Networking Made Easy The Memory Stick arena demonstrates how consumers can share digital pictures, music and information with this ultra-small storage media designed to link a host of different digital products. Visitors will experience a wide variety of AV and IT products available today which take advantage of Memory Stick media for everything from downloading music securely from the Internet to capturing and sharing dacross platforms and devices. It is also designed for capacity expansion with up to 64MB storage available in December, and a near-term roadmap for 128MB, 256MB and even higher capacity. To underscore the Memory Stick media's power for personal networking, Sony will show how a single Memory Stick can be used to record voice in a personal dictation device and transfer that voice file to a VAIO notebook PC for email. Then, using the same Memory Stick, digital music will be downloaded for playback on the Memory Stick Walkman(TM) Personal Stereo personal stereo Noun Chiefly Brit a small portable audio cassette player used with lightweight headphones personal stereo n → walkman ® m . Digital images will be captured and downloaded from a Sony Cyber-shot(R) Digital Camera, and then displayed and printed on the CyberFrame(TM) digital photo frame A digital photo frame is a picture frame that displays digital photos without the need to print them. Features Some digital photo frames can only display JPEG pictures. However, others support additional multimedia content. and digital still image color printer A printer that prints in color using three (CMY) or four (CMYK) colors of ink, toner or dye. Four color ribbons have been used in dot matrix printers, but these are rare today. See color laser printer and printer. . i.LINK Interface: Home Networking Comes of Age The i.LINK interface stage showcases the power and potential of high-speed home networking using the IEEE-1394 digital interface. Digital audio and video demand speed and bandwidth to transfer images and sounds between systems, whether for editing digital movies on a PC or creating a home information and entertainment system that connects computers and consumer electronics products. Today, virtually all Sony computers and digital camcorders are i.LINK interface enabled. A growing number of i.LINK compliant AV products are available frokes full advantage of the explosion in audio anhe Internet. With the i.LINK interface, yrface's Digital Transmission Content Protection Digital Transmission Content Protection, or DTCP, is a digital rights management (DRM) technology that aims to restrict "digital home" technologies including DVD players and televisions by encrypting interconnections between devices. (DTCP DTCP Digital Transmission Content Protection (method) DTCP Dynamic Tunnel Configuration Protocol DTCP Digital Transport Content Protection DTCP Digital Transmission Copy Protection ) system, which supports the copy protection needs of the entertainment industry and other content providers. To illustrate the potential of i.LINK connection as an enabler of adt of the network. Sony will also demonstrate i.LINK flexibility by simultaneously streaming multiple data compression data compression Process of reducing the amount of data needed for storage or transmission of a given piece of information (text, graphics, video, sound, etc.), typically by use of encoding techniques. formats. To emphasize the i.LINK interface's potential as a room-to-room home networking solution, i.LINK-long technolo media and i.LINK technology work hand-in-glove with Sony's newest generation of AV/IT platforms and peripherals. VAIO World is about freedom, flexibility and functionality - the choice to connect powerful, stylish and integrated porders. Joining these products are Sony digital imaging solutions connected within VAIO World by Memory Stick personal networking and i.LINK home networking, such as Cyber-shot digital cameras, DV Handycam(R) and Digital8(TM) camcorders. VAIO World is brought to life through Sony-developed software designed to make it easier and more fun for consumers to create and share. Sony VAIO applications include DVGate(TM) professional quality software for digital video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. , PictureGear(TM) software for organizing and transferring digital still images, SmartCapture(TM) software to simply create JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images from digital cameras and camcorders for e-mailing and embedding in web pages, and SmartConnect(TM) software that enables consumers to even more easily connect i.LINK devices and share files. One of the most exciting expressions of the VAIO World concept is the demonstration of cool new AV accessories. The latest to debut is the SDMI-compliant VAIO Music Clip(TM) (MC-P10) personal network player, with its 64MB embedded flash memory and ability to download both ATRAC ATRAC - Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding 3 and MP3 audio files. Product Highlights Sony's Comdex exhibit is anything but a "look but don't touch" way to create a digital lifestyle. Visitors will have ample opportunity to interact with Sony's newest products and technologies, including: -- Memory Stick Walkman(TM) Personal Stereo (NW-MS7) and the VAIO Music Clip(TM) Player (MC-P10) -- Next Generation VAIO Digital Studio(TM) PCs (PCV-R536DS with 450 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. (1) Pentium(R) III processor and the PCV-R539DS with 550MHz Pentium III The successor to the Pentium II from Intel. Introduced in the spring of 1999 at 500 MHz, the Pentium III architecture was similar to the Pentium II with the addition of 70 new instructions optimized for multimedia (see SSE). processor) -- Elegant VAIO Slimtop(TM) LCD Computer (PCV-L620) -- VAIO 505 family of SuperSlim (N505VX and N505VE) and SuperSlim Pro Notebooks (Z505RX and Z505R), High Performance XG9 and All-ine LCD Projector See LCD TV, data projector and LCD panel. (VPL-CSI) Sony Electronie Internet you'll find Sony at http://www.sony.com. (1) MHz denotes microprocessor internal clock speed. Other factors may affect application performance. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion