Sony launches the PS3 … website
Europeans get dibs at the official Playstation 3 website access it as well and read up, but luckily we can on all the gooey, sugary news Sony can top us off with. What we can check out on the site consists mostly of exciting pictures of the console, controllers, the usual specs, and other content. [...]
Sony’s Stringer Says Movie Studios Leaning to Blu-Ray
Sony Corp. Chief Executive Officer Howard Stringer said movie studios are starting to favor its Blu- ray DVD, which can store high-definition films and other media.
Sony, the world’s second-largest consumer electronics maker, is promoting Blu-ray DVD against rival Toshiba Corp.’s HD DVD to gain acceptance from film makers and consumers as the standard for offering [...]
Sony Music wants bloggers to promo videos, music
Sony BMG Music Entertainment wants to give bloggers free music and video–sort of.
The music conglomerate is promoting a new site, called Musicbox Video, that showcases videos, artist interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and other material from a broad portfolio of its artists. Want to see a film clip of Bruce Springsteen singing “The River” from the 1980 [...]
Sony’s PlayStation 3 goes on sale
Sony’s PlayStation 3 (PS3) has gone on sale on the web despite not being launched until November this year.
The next generation consoles are on offer as “pre-orders” to Europeans for £550 ($1,020) at online shop, play.com.
The website says that because of an expected European shortage, it cannot guarantee delivery before Christmas.
The PS3 is the successor [...]
Hooray for Blu-ray! Sony Set to Finally Release Titles on June 20th
Timed to coincide with the rollout of the first Samsung Blue-ray DVD players and Sony Blu-ray compatible desktop PCs, Sony plans to release its first seven movie titles in the next-generation HD format on June 20th.
The titles to be released include: 50 First Dates, The Fifth Element, Hitch, xXx, The Terminator, Underworld: Evolution, and [...]
Universal Media Disc ‘another Sony bomb’
Exactly a year after it was launched in the United States, the Sony PlayStation Portable’s days as a handheld movie-viewing device might be numbered.
Disappointing sales have slowed the flow of movies on the proprietary Universal Media Disc to a mere trickle. At least two major studios have completely stopped releasing movies on UMD, while others [...]
Amazon offer for Sony CD buyers
The offer has been made in an e-mail sent to Amazon customers known to have bought one of the 52 Sony CDs which contained the XCP software.
Customers can get the refund by sending back the CD, even if they have not used the disc in their computers. At the same time Sony BMG has released [...]
