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Hands-on: Sony’s new NW-ZX2 Walkman is for audiophiles only

Jan06
by on January 6, 2015 at 4:53 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Remember the Walkman? Well, while it’s never quite recaptured the recognition it had during the CD heyday, Sony still hasn’t given up on the venerable music player. Recently, the company has been aiming its Walkman line at audiophiles, and at its CES conference today, the company announced a new flagship model, the Android-based NW-ZX2. The model is a followup to last year’s ZX1, and is able to play music files up to 192 KHz/24 bits, as well as high quality codecs such as FLAC and DSD. For your lower quality music files, the new Walkman includes a ‘digital amplifier’ technology called S-Master to reduce…

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All of Sony’s 2015 Bravia Smart TVs will run Android TV

Jan06
by on January 6, 2015 at 1:35 am
Posted In: Around the Web, CES, Gadgets, Insider

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Unlike Samsung, which is switching to it’s own homegrown OS on its TVs, Sony is going the other direction and adopting Google’s open Android TV platform. During the Sony CES keynote today, the company confirmed that all future Bravia Smart TVs will run Android TV as their software platform. This also means that all Sony TVs are able to be used with Google’s “cast” technology that was announced today. Google announced Android TV back at I/O in June 2014 and Sony adopting the OS for direct integration is a huge win for the company’s second attempt at creating a TV platform.

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All of Sony’s 2015 Bravia Smart TVs will run Android TV

Jan06
by on January 6, 2015 at 1:35 am
Posted In: Around the Web, CES, Gadgets, Insider

Sony-CES
Unlike Samsung, which is switching to it’s own homegrown OS on its TVs, Sony is going the other direction and adopting Google’s open Android TV platform. During the Sony CES keynote today, the company confirmed that all future Bravia Smart TVs will run Android TV as their software platform. This also means that all Sony TVs are able to be used with Google’s “cast” technology that was announced today. Google announced Android TV back at I/O in June 2014 and Sony adopting the OS for direct integration is a huge win for the company’s second attempt at creating a TV platform.

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Samsung unveils curved PC Monitors for the mainstream at CES

Jan05
by on January 5, 2015 at 10:56 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Curved screens are the newest display fad, and in 2015 you’ll be seeing more of them than ever. However, so far the technology has been fairly exclusive to television displays. That’s changing now: Samsung is announcing new flagship UHD PC monitors, the succintly named SE790C and SE 590 Curved Monitors. The SE790C is available in 29 and 44 inches and features a 21:9 aspect ratio (3440 x 1440 resolution), whereas the the SE590C comes in at 32 inches. Aside from these flagships, Samsung is also announced the SE510 (24 and 27 inches) and the TV-ready TD590C (27 inches) curved displays. Although…

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