Sony’s Video Walkman For Non-iPod Fanatics March 2, 2007
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iPod might rule but Sony is happy to play the role of troublesome, upstart pretender to the throne with the launch of its own Video Walkman. The NW-A800 Network Walkman series comes in three flavours, 2GB, 4GB and 8GB, and sports a 2in Q-VGA display with 320x240 pixel resolution.
It can playback videos encoded in AVC (H.264/AVC) baseline profile and MPEG-4, at up to 30 frames per second (fps). It’s reasonably thin too at 8.3mm and weighs in at 53g. Still, that’s thicker and heavier than the nano, but nano doesn’t do video.
Sony’s been doing a lot of good things on the battery front over the last year and this is no exception, with a claimed 30 hours playback for music and 8 hours for video. The prices for the 2GB NW-A805, 4GB NW-A806 and 8GB NW-A808 are £119, £149 and £199. Hardly a bargain.-Martin Lynch
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There's a hands on video review that I made for the NW-A800 here on Youtube
Does it still use Sonicstage?
For Sony's sake please say no!
And does it work 100% with vista?
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Windows Vista