Showing posts with label Sony. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sony. Show all posts
High-resolution movies for Sony's 4K TV
$ 25,000 is a steep price for a TV. Sony justifies the dissolution of the XBR-84X900 of 3840 × 2160 pixels. Unfortunately, there is little content that will be the 4K resolution requirements. For the U.S., Sony has announced to lend owners of 4K TV an additional hard disk player that is played with ten films and several shorts.
In the movies there are: The Amazing Spider-Man, Total Recall (2012), Bad Teacher, The Karate Kid (2010). Salt, Battle Los Angeles, The Other Guys, That's My Boy, Taxi Driver and The Bridge on the River Kwai. There are also some short films from the Red Bull Media House.
The player will be updated periodically with new offers. How Sony will do that is not yet known. Content is far lower resolution extrapolated from the X-Reality PRO picture engine, a proprietary upscaler, to nearly 4K resolution.
Sony stops selling its tablets
Just one month after the launch of the new Xperia Tablet S Sony has stopped the sale of its Android tablets for now. Because of a manufacturing error on some devices a leaky gap between screen and case has emerged, can penetrate through the water. Sony marketed the tablet as splashproof. Currently, the wireless models on Sony's website as "currently not available" is checked. UMTS-enabled versions will follow in November. So far, about 100,000 units worldwide were sold. As the Handelsblatt reports online, Sony flat from the end of October a free inspection and repair program for customers who have already purchased a model SGPT121DE or SGPT122DE.
In the past week, Sony had launched its own online store for games apps under the name "Playstation portable," the little games for the Xperia Tablet S and others as "Playstation Certified" offers issued Android devices and the mobile console PS Vita. The starting line-up includes 20 items priced between 49 cents and 5.49 euros. Sony wants to curate the selection of gaming apps in the early days yet and selecting the tracks themselves, later it was to be released eventually. By the additional sales of downloadable games is hoping the entertainment company, to sell its smartphones and tablets competing models and to be able to attract more studios to develop games for the PS Vita.
Almost all manufacturers of control code problem affected in Android
From the initially attributed Samsung Android tax code vulnerability seem potentially most smartphones and tablets are concerned UMTS, which runs on Ice Cream Sandwich (version 4.0.x) or an older version of Android. Google has the code in the dialing program in July, updated with version 4.1.1, so that control codes can not be done automatically.
Most dialers that are based on the original Android should, therefore, also contain the flaw. The comments show the readers to yesterday's report showing that almost every manufacturer is vulnerable devices in the program. Sony devices (formerly Sony Ericsson) are currently available information, only affected if it an alternative firmware like Cyanogen mod is installed. Otherwise start the Sony proprietary dialer from the tax code.
The current version of Android Jelly Bean (4.1.x) is installed on only 1.2 percent of all Android smartphones - which should primarily be that for most devices is no update on Jelly Bean and will not give.
The problem with the tax code is that it immediately executes the dialer - regardless of whether they are the users of hand typing on the keypad or by tel: URL has been passed from one Web page to the dialer. While the combination * # 06 # is not harmless and merely displays the 15-digit IMEI number of your smartphone, other tax codes mean that the SIM card will be permanently blocked. Samsung smartphones also know a code that will reset the device to factory settings, so all the user data in the phone memory clears. According to reports, other manufacturers like HTC have incorporated similar commands.
Since the dialer can be addressed in many ways, the tax codes are everywhere: on websites, in HTML emails in WAP push messages and even QR codes. It remains to be seen how the manufacturers are responding to the problem. Especially the users of older devices should not make much hope that there will be for their devices a security patch.
Since the exploit the vulnerability is trivial and the details can be long in the network are circulating, users should not wait for the manufacturer reaction. heise Security advises to install one of the many now offer apps that block the execution of the tax code. Besides TelStop and NoTelURL there recently, the USSD filter of G Data.
The installation of an alternative browser, however, can indeed ensure that tel: URLs are not on websites run longer without being asked, does not protect against control commands in QR codes and Co.
Now It is also on air that Sony (Ericsson) devices with original firmware are affected.
Apple is working on music streaming service - and is held back by Sony
The Internet radio music from Apple is delayed due to difficult negotiations with the music publishing rights Sony / ATV. Whose boss Martin Bandier told the New York Times over the weekend that he would achieve better royalties for artists. "We want the service. We just want to be paid fairly." The statements by the influential music manager are also the first confirmation that Apple is working at all on such a streaming service.
Sony / ATV managing the rights for current stars such as Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift, but also songs by old masters such as the Beatles and Beach Boys. The company is owned by the Japanese electronics giant Sony and the estate of Michael Jackson. In summer, they swallowed the publishing division of the battered British music company EMI.
The Wall Street Journal had a few weeks ago for the first time reported on Apple's plans for an internet radio and also limited, because of the rights that negotiations for months could pass before a start. Apple with its iTunes online platform of the world's largest music seller. However, now more and more streaming music on the rise. There are, on the one subscription services like Spotify or Rdio, which can fully for a monthly fee to listen to music. Such a service have Apple also considered, but rejected the idea, wrote the Wall Street Journal. Another model is free Internet radio stations like Pandora (only available in the U.S.) or last.fm, in which the user must follow a playlist generated by the transmitter, and the individual songs and their order can not pick and choose. The services create playlists instead to music genres and preferences of individual users.
The Apple service advertising should be displayed to the music, it said. He should run on Apple devices such as iPhones and iPads, and possibly on Windows PCs. According to the New York Post, Apple aims at a more flexible license with more uses than about at Pandora. Even the first report in the Wall Street Journal had let the share price collapse of Pandora.
Sony unveils new slimmer and lighter version of its PlayStation 3
The Japanese multinational Sony introduced a new version of its PlayStation 3 (PS3), with a smaller and lighter design, which goes on sale this fall in Europe, North America and Japan.
At a conference on the occasion of the game show Tokyo Game Show, which begins Thursday in the Japanese capital, Sony Computer Entertainment explained that the new PS3 will be available in three models, one with a hard drive of 500 GB, another with a 250 GB and one with added flash 12GB.
The device costs between 229 and 299 euros in Europe, where will be released on September 28, and between 249-299 dollars in North America, where its launch will take place on the 25th of that month in its 250 GB and October 30 in the version of 500 GB.
In a statement, Sony said that the internal volume and weight of the new PS3 has been reduced by more than half compared to having the first model of this console with a 60GB hard drive, and between 20% and 25% compared to the PS3 Slim, released in 2009.
In addition, will have a slide deck for the disk, instead of the previous slot, to keep "the simple design characteristic" of the device.
The Japanese multinational recalled that since the launch of PS3 in November 2006, the number of software titles themselves has exceeded 3,300, and noted that the platform will continue to expand this console to the continuous release of new games.
In addition, Sony also announced that its PlayStation Plus subscription service, available through PlayStation Network network, will be available for the PS Vita for next November.
The Japanese multinational accounts explained that subscribed to this service on the PS3 may also use it with the PS Vita at no additional cost, and vice versa.
Sony's flagship camera with translucent mirror
Announcement of the device is remarkable in that previous professional full-frame SLR camera Sony - Alpha 900 - was introduced as many as four years ago.
Camera has a new full-frame Exmor CMOS-sensor with 24.3 megapixel resolution with high sensitivity surface (to reduce the number of noise in low light).
In addition, the new product boasts a unique dual autofocus system for phase detection with a 19-point main sensor and 102 additional focus points on the matrix.
System-way mirror allowed Sony to remove the device from the pentaprism (used here is much smaller than the electron OLED-screen viewfinder with a resolution of 1024x768), which in turn reduced the size and weight of the device, and now (including those due to the light magnesium alloy body, protected from moisture and dust) A99 is the lightest full-frame SLR camera in the world.
Sony Alpha A99 boasts BIONZ processor with support for the latest generation of 14-bit RAW-files and noise on the image area.
Also new is equipped with a Multi-pass filter, increasing the resolution of the sensor,
Lens support Sony / Minolta bayonet A, image stabilization with sensor shift and integrated GPS-module.
The camera got a new steering wheel on the front and a 3-inch shifted in three directions LCD technology WhiteMagic and TruBlack (1,3 M).
Sensitivity range of cameras - from 100 to 6400 ISO (expandable to 25,600 and continuous shooting noise reduction by - up to 102 400), shutter speed range - 30 to 1/8000 sec. You can shoot with the frequency of 6 frames per second at full resolution, as well as Full HD video at 60 or 24 frames per second with stereo sound and HDMI output support in real time. Battery NP-FM500H yields image up to 500 shots per charge.
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