Sony NEC Optiarc BD-M100A PC Blu-ray drive

Sony NEC Optiarc has unveiled its first PC Blu-ray burner. The BD-M100A drive can burn single and dual-layer Blu-ray discs at double speed, and can handle both write-once (BD-R) and rewritable (BD-RE) Blu-ray discs. It's also fully backwards compatible...

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Posted by Staff on 29 May 2007

Sony Bravia XBR 1080p LCD available for pre-order

Sony's first batch of 1080p flat-panels are ready for pre-order. These sweet, new Bravia's are all 1080p (yes, they do accept 1080p) and range in size from 40 to 46-inches. There are two different levels of their top-tier products...

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Posted by Staff on 23 July 2006

Sony KDE-W50A12U 50" plasma reviewed

As you’d expect of a big flat panel TV costing in the region of £4k, the W50A12U is fully HD Ready, with its native pixel resolution coming in at 1,366 x 768. It can also handle the key HD format...

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Posted by Staff on 6 May 2006

1080p questions answered by the industry

There are two versions of 1080P – 1080P/50 for which it’s unlikely that there will be any native content available in the foreseeable future and 1080P/24 which is likely to be adopted by the movie industry for Blu-ray. Blu-ray will...

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Posted by Staff on 21 April 2006

Sony WD-42PX2, WD-42PX2S announced

Sony will be releasing a couple of plasmas supporting this 10,000:1 contrast ratio in the Japanese market. They are the WD-42PX2 and the WD-42PX2S — same model, but silver casing. Via Gizmodo...

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Posted by Staff on 22 March 2006

Sony VPL-HS51A Cineza Projector Review

The Sony Cineza has an almost uncanny knack for dipping into shadows and not losing the image to crushing blacks as is common with other LCD-based front projection systems I've evaluated. All LCD systems can dazzle you with images of...

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Posted by Staff on 22 March 2006

Sony BDP-S1 Blu Ray player now on Amazon

The player resembles an old style laser disc player and feels out of place in when compared to other $1000 equipment which one may have on the shelf. We also thought that the blue color was a bit out of...

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Posted by Staff on 22 March 2006

LCoS running into teething problems

LCoS is the technology that Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies has picked as the new gold standard for display quality. The success of Sony’s SXRD rear-projection models certainly indicates that a lot of people agree with him. JVC’s D-ILA and...

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Posted by Staff on 11 March 2006

Sony BRAVIA S, V and X-series

Sony's highly popular BRAVIA line expands to three U.K. sub-lines right before CeBit. The S, V and X-lines don't have ship dates or prices yet, but this move makes sense considering Sony's master plan to increase their European market share...

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Posted by Staff on 10 March 2006

Sony's new TAV-L1 gimmick TV

Sony have introduced the TAV-L1, a Tv with a cheesy futuristic twist. We say it's yet another part of your home theatre which could malfunction. And it's only stereo - stick to a retro wooden TV cabinet. The package will...

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Posted by Staff on 27 February 2006

LCoS displays compared

The second generation of LCoS began when JVC launched their first rear-projection 1280×720 High Definition TVs in July 2004. Sony joined in January of 2005 with their high-end 1920×1080 Qualia unit. Next came Brillian, which began shipping their 1280×720 unit...

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Posted by Staff on 27 February 2006

Sony VPL-ES3 projector

The VPL-ES3 accepts a range of sources including high definition images while the short focal lens enables a maximum screen-size of up to 300 inches. The VPL-ES3 also comes with a monitor-out connection, so the image to be displayed on...

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Posted by Staff on 22 February 2006

Sony PS3 1080p and BluRay confirmed

The PlayStation®3 will include BluRay™, the high definition DVD technology, and support games in resolutions of up to 1080p, (the highest supported standard on the market.) Via Kotaku...

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Posted by Staff on 20 February 2006

400,000 Sony Bravia TVs sold with major flaw

Sony has admitted a faulty batch of Bravia-branded LCD and rear-projection TVs has made it into wild. Around 400,000 sets may carry a software bug that could prevent them from being turned off after a cumulative 1,200 hours in stand-by...

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Posted by Staff on 14 February 2006

Sony KDL-V40XBR1 LCD reviewed

Sony is arguably the most powerful brand name in television. The Trinitron is the premiere picture-tube technology known to two or three generations of TV buyers. But what has Sony done for us lately? In front and rear projection, the...

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Posted by Staff on 24 January 2006

Hi-Def cinema in your home

SIM2’s latest projector will display “true” 1080p HDTV pictures – when they actually arrive.We’re all looking forward to the day when Sky rams HDTV into our homes, but we know that something even better is on the distant horizon. While...

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Posted by Staff on 19 January 2006

Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray player

Sony Electronics today unveiled a variety of Blu-ray Disc™-based products, offering a host of new high-definition entertainment possibilities. U.S. product introductions will begin this spring and gather momentum over the summer with the introduction of a home player. BD technology...

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Posted by Staff on 18 January 2006

Sexy Vaio Media Center debuts

Dubbed the VGX-XL100 and styled in a cooler-than-my-living-room black and brushed aluminium, it is a jack of all trades functioning as a TV tuner and recorder, DVD player and burner, music jukebox, gaming machine and office work station.The old-school horizontal...

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Posted by Staff on 13 January 2006

Sony kdl-v32xbr1 review

The Sony kdl-v32xbr1 is a 32 inch widescreen LCD TV that uses Sony’s WEGA engine. This model is part of Sony’s XBR series. This HDTV has a built in high definition receiver ( ATSC Integrated Tuner and CableCARD slot),...

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Posted by Staff on 4 January 2006

Smarthouse concludes- best big-screen LCD TV yet

Smarthouse has a really nice article on Sony’s KDL-V40A10 from the new Bravia range. It won their “Best of the Best Award for Best LCD over 32 inches?. “The Bravia produces brilliant, vivid colours that fairly leap off the...

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Posted by Staff on 29 December 2005

Large wall not included with Sony's 82-inch LCD

This picture is actually Samsung's mega-sized LCD because Sony isn't showing theirs off until next month's CES show. We'll be on-site in hopes of catching the great unveiling, but we can't see how we would miss it. C'mon, where...

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Posted by Staff on 26 December 2005

CNET Reviews Sony's Bravia LCD

CNET has posted a new review of Sony's Bravia XBR LCD flat-panel TV, which it says is the most searched-for HDTV on its site. CNET editors rate it "Very Good" with a 7.7 out of 10. http://reviews.cnet.com/Sony_Bravia_XBR_KDL_V40XBR1/4505-6482_7-31470102.html?tag=nl.e722...

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Posted by Staff on 26 December 2005

Review: Sony VPL-VW100 Projector

Sony’s flagship SXRD front projector is the bomb, the bling, and yes it’s all that. This baby is finally shipping in numbers, and here’s a new review from UltimateAV. (Here’s the first VPL-VW100 review I covered from HD Blog....

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Posted by Staff on 22 December 2005

Sky and Sony to jointly promote HDTV

David and Elton aren’t the only ones getting hitched today. Sony and Sky have just announced a marriage of sorts to promote HDTV. As you all know Sky intends to launch its HDTV service in early 2006. Now Sony...

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Posted by Staff on 22 December 2005

Sony HDTV sales bounce back

We're not sure if the 250,000 super balls helped or it was just a sales bounce from Black Friday and Cyber Monday, but Sony moved quite a few HDTV sets over the Thanksgiving holiday. According to a press release,...

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Posted by Staff on 6 December 2005

Sony's colour like no other

'Colour like no other'. That's the message of Sony's new HD-compatible BRAVIA TV commercial. So to get the message across Danish director Nicolai Fuglsig sent 250,000 multi-coloured 'superballs' bouncing down the streets of San Francisco - as you do....

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Posted by Staff on 5 December 2005

Sony SXRD KDS-R50XBR1 and KDS-R60XBR1 Info and Review Roundup

These 2 models are the hottest and most popular rear projection sets available today. Excellent image quality coupled with the Sony brand makes these two HDTVs tough to beat. I’ve covered several reviews and lots of info about these...

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Posted by Staff on 2 December 2005

Sony KDS-R60XBR1 SXRD 1080p RPTV Review

The Sony SXRD rear projection hdtv units are all the buzz right now, and it’s easy to understand. The big brand of Sony coupled with their image quality reputation makes for quick notice on the tech side. Ultimate AV...

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Posted by Staff on 29 November 2005

Blu-ray propaganda

Firstly don't take any of this as a condemnation of Blu-ray, just some observations on how press releases can be potentially misleading. A few days ago I received a press release stating "MGM to Support Blu-ray Disc Format" I thought...

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Posted by Staff on 29 November 2005

Sony VPL-VW100, AKA Ruby

Back in September I wrote about the ProjectionDesign Action! Model three, and how 1080p DLP chips were in production and making their way out to manufacturers. But I would be remiss to not mention another 1080p front projector by Sony....

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Posted by Staff on 29 November 2005

Sony HS-60 Review

As front projector fans anxiously await the availability of the Sony HS-60 front projector, here is a review from avbuzz. “The black level is so impressive that you never imagine such solid black coming from an LCD projector. The...

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Posted by Staff on 28 November 2005

Review: Sony KDS-R60XBR1 HDTV

Sony's SXRD technology has been receiving rave reviews. There's the expensive Qualia front projectors, and now there's also their two rear-projectors. (And soon they'll have an relatively affordable front projector.) The $5000 KDS-R60XBR1 is a rear-projection HDTV that uses 3...

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Posted by Staff on 28 November 2005

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