Sony is going the multi-color route with it’s new mini-notebooks, hoping to attract the fashionistas in the room with sangria, cosmopolitan, dove, indigo and black color options.
Looking great and performing even
better, Sony’s VAIO CR Notebook series offer the ultimate mobile experience with unparalleled processing speeds, longer battery life and enhanced wireless connectivity.
The VAIO CR-Series
Specifications at a glance:
• Latest generation 14.1” widescreen X-black LCD
• Entertainment with 1.3 mega-pixel camera and TBC function
• Fast multimedia performance with Intel® Centrino® Duo processor technology and ATI MobilityTM Radeon® graphics
• Excellent software including Microsoft® Windows® Vista® Premium and Adobe® Photoshop® Elements
VAIO CR Notebooks feature Intel Centrino Duo processor technology, Intel’s latest and best notebook technology to date. Powered by an Intel® Core Duo processor and an 800 MHz Front Side Bus, this state-of-theart technology provides screaming-fast performance and the mobility, power and flexibility you need for high-speed wireless computing on-the-go.
The VAIO CR Notebook’s power and portable 14.1”1 form factor is complemented by the next great advancement in wireless technology – Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N. With builtin Wireless-N technology, the VAIO CR lets you wirelessly connect with greater performance, range and reliability than ever before. Wireless-N offers a massive boost in speed and considerably more range than 802.11 a/b/g connections. Connect to office networks and hot spots and experience the difference of Wireless-N. You can even video conference with blazing-fast speed using the integrated camera and microphone4. Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N is backwards compatible with existing 802.11 b/g networks, so there is no need for any additional hardware or cables. 
The VAIO comes with software such as Microsoft Works 8.5 for productivity and Sony Click to DVD for movie creation.
Other interesting touches include a specialized keyboard font, an LED that pulsates beneath the notebook’s trim to indicate what is happening – booting up, powering down, hibernating – and glowing and fading accordingly. Each CR notebook comes with its own VAIO branded wallpaper and optional colorcoordinated carrying bag and mouse.
Sony takes Blu-ray to the next level with an entirely integrated HD system. The new BDP-S300 Blu-ray Disc home player from Sony offers a host of new high-definition entertainment possibilities.
The player features 1920 x 1080p output, the highest HD signal output currently available through a HDMI connection.
Perhaps more importantly, home cinema enthusiasts who demand the ulitmate HD experience can opt for the Blu-ray Disc™ Home Cinema System HTP-BD2RSF, which consists of the Blu-ray
Disc™ Player BDP-S300 itself, a digital Sony S-Master amplifier HT-SF2000 and a powerful 5.1 speaker array.
For your high-definition viewing pleasure, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has already released over 40 Blu-ray Disc™ format movies, with more than 30 titles scheduled for release between now and Christmas. In addition, the BDP-S300 player is fully compatible with your existing DVD library, and with built-in 1080p upscaling it creates a better image than a standard DVD player ever could.
Blu-ray Disc™
• United Sony delivers Blu-ray Disc™ products across different categories
• Over 30 movie titles on Blu-ray Disc™ to be released by Sony Pictures this autumn
• Home Theatre goes Blu-ray: more movies, new players, more fun
• Play movies and edit, share and store personal HD content with VAIO Blu-ray Disc™ notebooks and PCs
Sony’s new home theater projector is good news for those that don’t like to be limited by the size of a TV screen.
The new Bravia VPL-VW60 projects a 1,920 x 1,080 image with a 35,000:1 contrast ratio and 1,000 lumens courtesy
of its 200W high pressure mercury lamp and trio of 0.61-inch SXRD chips. It’s also quieter than its predecessor at 22dB
while packing a pair of HDMI-CEC class HDMI jacks supporting 1080/60p, 50p, and 24p. All these versatile and easy-to-use features are combined in a lightweight, slick-looking design that helps to create the ultimate home theater experience. Little surprise then that the Sony BRAVIA VPL-VW60 received an EISA Award 2007-2008 as best European Video projector.
Bravia VPL-VW60
• E ISA Award Winning “European Video Projector of the Year” 2007-2008
• 1080 Full HD Sony SXRD™ technology yields top resolution and superb image quality
• Impressive 35,000:1 contrast ratio brings out every detail, ensures black is really black
Not everyone wants a giant screen and a black cabinet, which is why Sony launched the Bravia S3000-Series as a 20-inch or 26-inch model in eight different colors. The “flagship” of Sony’s LCD offerings, the Bravia W3000-Series is
the revamp of the existing W2000 and features a range of screen sizes from 26-inch up to Sony’s biggest yet 70-inch
model.
The BRAVIA
x3500/x3000-
Series: High Definition Redefined
• 1080p Full HD throughout range • 70-inch model featuring super-wide color gamut Triluminos LED backlight technology
• Advanced picture technologies include x.v.Color, Motionflow +100Hz and 10-bit panel
• Integrated HDTV tuner
This range offers HD1080 on all models plus 16,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, and the three HDMI connections
ensures compatability with your other HD stuff. Picture fidelity is promised by 10-bit signal processing, while a 10-bit LCD panel yields 1024 shades of gradation between colors, compared to the 256 available from normal 8-bit pane.
The 24p True Cinema and Theater Mode should appeal to cinema buffs, while the integrated digital tuner and Dolby Virtual Surround speakers, digital amplification plus S-Force Front Surround give the audio a welcome boost.
Aimed at the bedroom/kitchen/ second TV market, the range will be available in decor-matching dark and light blue white, pink, mauve, mocha as well as silver and black, and the manufacturer is hoping that the screen’s new “Art Frame” design means that this range won’t be banished to the back room.
BRAVIA
Home Theater RHT-G800
Enjoy “invisible” home cinema – HD imagery and 5.1-quality sound, minus all the messy cables.
Sony has launched its second “home cinema without the boxes” system – the RHT-G800 – with all the kit built into a
stylish stand and with enough room for a flatscreen TV up to 46 inches. 
The RHT-G800 has all the processing, amplification and speakers in a single unit, making it attractively simple. In addition, it features a HDMI interface, along with both analogue and digital audio connections – so its easy to add a DVD player or recorder, games console or cable/satellite set-top box, with space for up to four items. It’s also compatible with the high-resolution Linear PCM audio system used on Blu-ray, as well as the Dolby Digital and DTS soundtracks found on DVDs.
Next generation Walkman ®
Digital Media Players
With features so upgraded, it’s hard to call Sony’s new portable music and video players “walkmen”. Amongst the line-up of new players is the NWZ-A815 (in black, white, pink violet, and silver), which is the updated version of the video-playing, nanorivalling NW-A805.
The series have a standard user interface that makes it easy to enjoy songs, videos or pictures. The new walkman offers a music player (MP3, AAC, linear PCM and WMA), video player, television tuner and FM radio tuner all rolled into one.
Video watchers will enjoy the large Quarter Video Graphics Array (QVGA) LCD screen that displays video at 30 frames per second, with resolution of 320 pixels vertically by 240 pixels horizontally. Being able to drag and drop files to it makes managing your music a breeze, while the superior sound quality and bundled headphones round out the package. More importantly, Sony is supporting MP3 format on these players, so we can bid adieu to the proprietary ATRAC format.
