Sony Customers Help Design New Vaios May 31, 2007
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It may be hard to believe but Sony actually listened to customers and implemented their suggestions when building its latest ultraportable notebooks. So let’s see what happened.
The good-looking TZ Series is designed as a replacement for the popular TX Series and Sony’s thinks it’s hit the nail on the head, thanks to surveying 5,000 TX Series owners. Around 60% cent said they use their TXs on the move while 74% said there needed to be a good balance between size, weight and durability.
The lid has been dieted down to 4mm thin but the screen surround and chassis are now constructed using carbon fibre production techniques to make them tougher. The TZ Series weighs in at 1.19Kg, which ain’t bad.
The ‘Full flat’ design is a result of 70% of TX users claiming that design was "very important" to them. There’s a miniature Webcam built into the screen surround and the handy ‘Instant On’ feature lets users watch DVDs without powering up Windows.
Under the hood is an Intel Core2 Duo Ultra-Low Voltage processor, 2GB of Dram and a choice of 80GB and 100GB hard disk drives. Jump now for the full specs and another photo.-Martin Lynch
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Philips Portable DVD Players Get iPod-friendly May 31, 2007
READ MORE Cars , Entertainment , Gadgets , Motoring , Movies , Portable Media , iPod
The summer is here and many of you lunatics will, no doubt, be planning to drive a carload of screaming kids around the country, in scorching heat looking for a beach.
To save driving yourself insane, Philips has kindly unwrapped its 2007 line-up of portable DVD players and boy, is there a lot on offer. There are five players in all, ranging in price from £130 to £249, and sporting a jazzy two-tone colour scheme.
The three widescreen models, the entry-level 7in PET730, 8.5in PET830 tablet and the 10.2in PET1030, also come with a full in-car mounting kit for the brats, two headphone jacks and a decent connectivity array. A version of the tablet-styled PET830 – the 835 – is coming later this year with an in-built digital TV tuner.
For iPod owners though, all eyes will be on the DCP line-up, specifically the 7in DCP750 and 8.5in DCP850 [pictured] which also sport iPod docking stations. These have been neatly designed to allow the iPod to lie flush. The players also have handy swivel screens and are priced at £149 and 199 respectively.-Martin Lynch
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Apple TV Gets YouTube And 160GB HDD May 31, 2007
READ MORE Apple , Entertainment , HDTV , TV
Apple is determined to make the recently launched Apple TV device a success and thinks hooking up with YouTube is the way to go.
The company has announced that from mid-June, Apple TV users will be able to wirelessly stream videos from YouTube to their TVs. Thousands of clips will be available from the start and the whole lot will be accessible by Autumn.
The reason for the delay seems to be that Apple is converting the videos into the H.264 codec. New videos will be automatically converted by YouTube as they are uploaded but the older videos need converting – and there's quite a few of those.
More importantly though for many potential customers is the launch a 160GB version of Apple TV, which will no doubt really, really annoy those that bought the one with the weenie 40GB drive. It will cost £269 from tomorrow, just £70 more than the 40GB version.-Martin Lynch
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