Sony really showed both its technical muscles and marketing punch with one of the biggest stands this year at the CES, offering a complete showcase of its consumer products. Blu-ray at the top of the list, of course, but with much, much more that you will not want to miss in our clip. Here are just a few of the highlights.
First stop was to see the Blu-ray recorder BDP-S1, boasting 1080/60p full HD Video Output, in final prototype form so we will be following very closely availability.
On display was the prototype Blu-ray Disc Media, with 50 GB (!) double layer capacity. Backward compatible DVD & CDR, note the disk is shown in both BD-R and BD-RE rewritable formats.
Creator of SXRD, Sony unveiled a number of new products using this LCD HD technology. You will absolutely want to see the BRAVIA 82" LCD Display Prototype on show offering 1920x1080p native resolution, making it the world's first xvYCC color range Standand Compliant.
In the BRAVIA line-up you will also see their new 46" HD Display, with Full Power of HD using the 7th generation S-LCD panel which also boasts 1920x1080p resolution.
You could also have admired “RUBY”, or officially the VPL-VW100 video projector, where we lucky enough to have Eric Kingdon, European Technical Marketing Manager for Sony Europe to give us an exclusive presentation recently along with in easy to understand explanation of the advantages of the SXRD technology as well as RUBY's big sister, the QUALIA 004. If you haven’t seen this video clip interview yet, just click HERE.
The cream of the crop in video projection could also be drooled over for those interested in Digital Cinema. Take a look at the new Digital Cinema 4K projector, SRX-R110, offering SXRD Technology and the highest resolution commercially available today : a whopping 4096x2160 Pixels Vertical with 10,000 Lumens and a 2000:1 contrast ratio. Now we know why Sony created the slogan : HIGHer DEFINITION !
There were all the other consumer products on show, the list is too long name them all or to get into details here, but you must see the Blu-ray prototype Playstation, BD Player on demo, with 1080/60p 12bit color HDMI output, RSX Graphic Processor for High Quality Image Processing and 32bit floating point Audio & Video processing… the PSP… and in closing we must say a real BRAVO for the superb, sublime, magnificent … design of the Playstation3.
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