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Sony have created a cool looking portable DVD player named the DVP FX850. It has a cool screen which swivels around in tablet form to allow easier watching in small places. The casing of the player is black which looks great. The screen is 8 inches with a resolution of 800×480 pixels. Formats supported are the usual DVD formats and other files such as MP3 and JPEG can be used.

One feature that I like is the ability to use a flash drive connected to the USB port to play files. Sonys usual stance is to make you use their own format, but here it has been dropped for something that is more standard. As well as having the features mentioned above the player supports DOLBY and DTS which really puts a lot in to this small package.

Via: OhGizmo

Personally I love huge big hi-def TV’s, and what better to acompany your nice shiny tv then this new stand from Sony, which features 5.1 built in speakers (the .1 being a subwoofer and not just a portion of a speaker). The technical people over at Sony have managed to recreate the surround sound-esque feel whilst keeping the speakers all neat and tidy within the stand. This is done to avoid the clutter that surround sound systems often create.

A touch screen remote and 4 inputs all but complete this stand allowing a plethora of devices, such as a dvd player, PS3 and even the good old Sky+ Box.

The stand will be available from May 2007, so get saving people!

The US are getting a good deal this time around with the price cut of the Sony PSP. The core PSP pack will be dropping in price from $199.99 down to $169.99 which is around 85 pounds for us in the UK. The core pack includes the PSP, battery and power adapter. In the UK it still costs 150 pounds which is a bit crazy if you ask me with it being almost 2 years old in the UK.

A Sony rep was asked if the price cuts would come to the UK and Europe but they responded that they have no announcements at the moment.

Via: Engadget

Following in Sonys way of slimming things down, the NV-U92T follows this trend. It is a very slim GPS sat nav system which is just 2CM in depth. It has a 4.8 inch wide screen display which is also touchscreen. An interesting feature that caught my eye is the gesture command support. If you draw a picture of your house it will navigate you home. The device has 2Gb of internal memory and can be expanded by using a Sony Memory Stick.

Unfortunatly we do not have pricing or other details yet, but as soon as they arrive we will get them out to you.

Via: UberGizmo

Sony is releasing a new high capacity backup storage tape. It is named the LTO Ultrium 4 and can store 800Gb to 1.6Tb compressed with transfer rates up to 240Mbps. For those who regularly use tape backup solutions, you may be familier with LTO Ultrium 3 and 2. The main difference is that the transfer on the V3 of these tapes was 160Mbps (compressed) which has now risen. Also storage used to be 800Gb compressed and is now 1.6Gb compressed. Thats a lot of data!

As well as being a backup solution, the tape also features hardware encryption capabilities for securing data when needed. Backwards compatibility does work on version 3 but it can only read on your LTO Ultrium 2 cartridges and not write.

Via: Sony

If you were one of the first to get your hands on a PS3 early hours of this morning then you might have wished you would have gone to the London Launch Event. If you purchased your PS3 at this event early this morning then you would have received a free 46 inch HDTV and a free taxi home to save you carting it home on the underground. Doing the maths there were over 250k UK pounds of tellys given away for free last night to over 100 more then happy gamers.

The launch actually went very smooth as well with no crime reported and no drivebys.

Via: Engadget