[austonia]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05...p3_vid_player/

what is this? native mp3 and mpeg support? hard to believe sony would make something non-ATRAC. could it be true?

 

[blessingx]

Holy $%^*!
Next Apple will make iTunes for Win.. err.

Curious what this move means for Sony. Is it a shift to reality?

 

[Jose Perez]

Quote:

Originally Posted by blessingx Curious what this move means for Sony. Is it a shift to reality?

I wouldn't hold my breath. Let's not forget betamax and MD

 

[ProFingerSk8er]

oh man, mp3 support and no more SonicStage!?
it's about time!

 

[dura]

8 hours playbacktime, AFAIK no user replacable battery, 250 gr? This is an Ipodkiller?

 

[pank2002]

Quote:

Not only does the HMP-A1 support MP3 natively, but Sony will ship it with MusicMatch's Jukebox software.

Wow, that so cool ! I just L-O-V-E MusicMatch

seriuesly though, If anyone wants a real licenscode for MMJB just pm me. I got one with my iPod and I'll never install that piece of crap on my system again. You gotta give it credit for it's tag-lookup though.

 

[ProFingerSk8er]

MusicMatch sure isnt perfect, but it sure is a lot better then SonicStage

 

[DigDub]

Quote:

Originally Posted by dura 8 hours playbacktime, AFAIK no user replacable battery, 250 gr? This is an Ipodkiller?

errmm..you do realise its a video player too?

 

[nicke2323]

It's no news that Sony is willing to do MP3 when it suits them. My 1 year old NS900V SACD player does MP3-CDs happily enough ...

 

[D-EJ915]

I dunno about you guys...but I like the other one better...especially the remote

 

[evo]

http://www.sony.jp/CorporateCruise/P...00405/05-0527/

sony's japanese press release

this won't be the last of its kind

archos, creative, samsung and now sony have video jukebox players planned or in production

now all we need is some hacker to port some games to these babies...

but wonder if sound quality will suffer as a result of accomodating all these new functions

 

[leon]

Quote:

Originally Posted by blessingx Is it a shift to reality?

It's mainly a result of Sony's internal factionalism. They often have different divisions / "companies" in business jargon working on similar products. This, the Vaio Pocket and Sony's previous HDD video player were each developed by different people (source: AV watch).

Sony's been trying to rein in all the different "companies." For home video recorders they've had three different groups develop three different products (CoCoon, PSX, Sugoroku). Although PSX got the lion's share of news coverage, Sugoroku accounted for at least 2/3 of Sony's disc-burning video recorder sale, and Sony only shipped about 1/4 of all PSXs it had planned to ship in its first quarter (source: PC watch).

Remember you still have to use proprietary software to transfer things to this player, even though SonicStage is not involved

 

[pic9809]

wow, nice looking screen and thank god it aint' atrac3-only