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Here’s How the Next PlayStation 4 Update Will Make Life Easier on Families
Video game consoles aren’t what they used to be. As the generation that grew up with video games now starts to have kids of their own, the video game consoles of today are becoming family entertainment hubs. Now that these consoles are virtually always connected to the internet, that poses challenges for parents who want […]
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Sony Returns to Making Vinyl Records After 28 Years
What started as a niche retro movement has gained an unexpected amount of steam — interest in turntables and vinyl records has shot up so much that one of the major players in music is going to start producing them again. Sony has announced that they will produce and sell vinyl records again after a 28-year […]
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Sony a9 is an Incredible Mirrorless Camera That You Probably Can’t Afford
Sometimes, Sony announces a somewhat affordable camera that allows previously premium features to trickle down to the rest of us. This is not one of those times. Sony announced the a9 today, and make no mistake — this is meant for pros, even if it’s more of a convenience for them than anything. Why is it […]
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Sony Unleashes the Fastest SD Cards on the Market Yet
As is tradition come time for Mobile World Congress, a new speed king is being crowned in the kingdom of SD cards. Last year, SanDisk impressed with a microSD card boasting 275 MB/s transfer speeds, but they’re being topped this year by Sony. Sony’s new SF-G series SD cards are capable of up to 300 […]
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Sony Might Just Have the OLED TV to Beat at CES 2017
Ever since Samsung and Sony popped in and out of the United States OLED market a few years ago, LG has gone unchallenged in the world of OLED TVs. That’s changing at CES 2017, as Sony has announced their new line of Bravia OLED TVs. Combining the superior color contrast and spectrum of OLED with […]
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Sony Releasing a Final Fantasy XV Edition Walkman in Their Retail Stores in Japan
To celebrate an old video game franchise, you need an old audio product. The Final Fantasy series of video games got its start in 1987, with the release of the first game on the NES. Over the years, the series has become more associated with Sony’s video game consoles, with the fifteenth installment in the main series […]
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Sony Announces the RX100 V and a6500, Two New Ultra-Fast Cameras
Sony’s been doing some impressive things in photography for ages now, but we’ve really been impressed with what they’ve released in the last few years. That continues this week — today, Sony announced the RX100 V and a6500, both of which take jumps forward in shutter speed, enabling some pretty incredible continuous shooting options. The a6500 […]
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The PlayStation 4 Pro Can Handle 4k and HDR Gaming
Gaming in 4k resolution is finally coming to consoles. At a press conference today, Sony confirmed the much-rumored PlayStation Neo, which is now called the PlayStation 4 Pro. With a new CPU and GPU, the PS4 Pro can now handle 4k resolution and HDR, but it’s not quite a dream console. The PS4 Pro looks […]
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Sony’s Flagship Xperia XZ Smartphone Shows Off New Camera Technology
The Android smartphone turf war has one major front now — camera quality. It’s still the one smartphone feature that has the potential to improve by leaps and bounds in the near future, and it’s become one of the main reasons consumers pick one phone over another (or another, or another). It seems like Sony would […]
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Sony’s New Lens is Perfect for Your Up-Close Flower Shots
Sony’s newest camera lens has its focus on the everyday user. The SEL50M28 is a full-frame 50 mm f/2.8 macro lens that works with any of their E-mount cameras. It promises to be a solid everyday lens, but it sounds like it will really shine when taking up-close shots with a narrow focus. That means […]
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A Huge Chunk of the PS3 Library Will Soon Be Playable on PC
It’s a good time to be a PC gamer. More and more Xbox One games will be released for both the console and Windows 10, an increasing number of third party games are getting PC ports (the quality of which admittedly varies), and now just about the whole PlayStation 3 library is becoming available. Yesterday, Sony […]
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Sony Caves In, Says They’re Going To Make Games for iPhone
Looks like 2016 will be the year the traditional giants of gaming stop ignoring the allure of the mobile market. After the launch of Nintendo’s long-talked about foray into smartphone games last week, Sony is following suit with the brief announcement of a new in-house studio that will be dedicated to smartphones. Sony Corporate Entertainment […]
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Sony’s Artsy Life Space UX Line is Coming to the MoMA Store
Sony had a fairly quiet CES this year, but one interesting thing they had on display was their new Life Space UX products. Intended to put a designer touch on home electronics, the trio of elegant devices were cool showpieces, but we were left uncertain if they would ever go on sale in the United […]
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PlayStation VR Will Be the Cheapest VR Headset at $400
A new kind of console war is about to break out this year, with the big three virtual reality headsets — PlayStation VR, the HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift — all scheduled for release sometime this year. With the Oculus Rift shipping out on March 28 and the Vive just a week later on April […]
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These Sample Photos Taken With Sony’s G Master Lenses Will Blow You Away
While we hesitate to use the word ‘affordable’ for a $1,000 camera, we have to admit that Sony is competing on price pretty well with the a6300, which they unveiled today in New York. The new mirrorless interchangeable lens camera improves on the cheaper a6000 model, adding a better sensor, more auto-focus and contrast detection […]
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Sony’s PS-HX500 Turntable Brings Out the Best in Vinyl and Modern Sound
This week at CES 2016, Sony added a reference quality turntable, the PS-HX500, to their line-up of hi-res audio products. This turntable accommodates audiophiles who love their LPs and want the best sound possible to come from them while letting you create high-quality rips of vinyl records. The PS-HX500 uses Sony’s state-of-the-art digital tech resulting […]
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Sony and Best Buy Team Up to Create Hi-Res Audio Listening Centers
Sony has been actively promoting the idea of hi-res audio since the re-release of the Walkman as a high-end audiophile product last year. Sony’s concept of hi-res audio includes high bitrate playback of uncompressed music files, along with more powerful amplifiers and digital-to-analog converters. They’ve made a couple players with that have earned the hi-res […]
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Sony’s Smart B-Trainer Review, Non-Runners Need Not Apply
Somewhere, avid runners thought really hard and wished up their dream fitness tracker/headphones combo, and Sony’s Smart B-Trainer was born. It is a magical combination of Bluetooth earphones, a heart rate sensor, a curated built-in 16 GB MP3 player, an app, a fitness coach, a GPS tracker, and more. Size and Fit At about the […]
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Sony’s 4k Televisions Now Support HDR Content, But What Does That Mean?
Warning: marketing speak ahead. But, once we hack through that forest, there just might be something to Sony’s claims that even more of their lineup of 4k televisions now support high dynamic range (HDR) video. Sony first started talking about HDR video in April, when it was reported that their 75″ flagship 4k X940C television […]
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Sony Debuts the First Smartphone With a 4k Display, the Xperia Z5 Premium
It was inevitable — eventually, some device manufacturer was bound to create a smartphone with a 4k display. Sony detailed their brand new Xperia Z5 this week at IFA 2015, and it’s coming in three models — Compact, regular, and Premium — with the latter earning the somewhat dubious distinction of having the first 4k […]
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Sony is All About the 4K with New A7R II, RX10 II and RX100 IV Cameras
Sony has been pumping out some of the most impressive cameras on the market over the past few years by consistently figuring out how to fit their top-line pro features into somewhat affordable consumer models. The three new cameras being introduced today — the fixed-lens RX10 II and RX100 IV and the interchangeable-lens a7R II […]
