by admin at Wednesday, June 03, 2009 in Electronics, Tech News
Tags:  e3, god of war, Microsoft, motion sensitive control system, ps3, psp, Sony

Sorry to say, but you can’t surprise people with your press conferences if people already know what you are going to announce in them.

Microsoft seemed to do the same on this Monday, as well knew that the company was about to release a motion sensitive control system, but something was quite surprising despite all this, as none was aware how polished that new product could be. Yup, it’s true Project Natal was really surprising at its unveiling.

Now it’s Sony that looking to get some spotlight at E3 and just like always the pressure is mounting on and on. It’s, indeed, a bitter pill for Sony to sustain its PS3 success even after attaining such a great next-gen level in gaming consoles.

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by admin at Sunday, May 17, 2009 in Crisis, Financial
Tags:  electronic goods, Gaming sector, japanese conglomerates, loss in first quarter, recession, Sony

In the past 14 years, Sony has faced an annual net loss of 98.9 billion yen that amounts to about $1 billion. It has been projected by the company that it is going to face even more loss in the coming days as there is a noticeable decrease in user demand of electronic goods. The loss is so immense for the company that it has planned to close three plants in Japan this year so as to compensate for its loss.

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by admin at Thursday, May 07, 2009 in Electronics, Tech News
Tags:  capcom, playstation, ps3, psone library, psp, Sony

Capcom is all set to give retro games a renaissance with its launch of wider ranges of already existing PSone games on PlayStation Network in the coming times, for its entire playstation freak. Capcom’s Chris Kramer has said in an interview that players will very soon get all retro-fuelled fun on their own PSP. He said, “We’ll definitely be looking at a lot of titles that have things like Street Fighter and Resident Evil in the title”.

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by admin at Wednesday, January 21, 2009 in Microsoft
Tags:  divx, hd files, Microsoft, mpeg-4, ps3, Sony

Digital Video Express, DivX owned by Jerome Vashist-Rota and Microsoft share a relationship of different shades. Presently VP creative and founder, brand and community DivX, Rota stated, “Currently, Microsoft does support DivX, which is fantastic, but the company has brought in some third-party support for the Xbox 360, and we are not very happy with that.”

This statement was given by Rota while giving an over view of his new high definition of DivX codec; DivX7. The new DivX7 technology enables that it can encode you HD files. Note that these files can only be played on DivX certified players. Or devices that are compatible with DivX can use these files.

DivX codec become popular due to its ability to compress large files/ lengthy video segments into small sizes. Amazingly, the quality of the video does not impair. The technology used by Rota is said to be stolen from Microsoft’s MPEG-4.

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by admin at Sunday, September 07, 2008 in Laptops
Tags:  Apple, CSPC, Dell, Laptops, Sony, US, VGN-TZ100

Sony has announced to recall around 73,000 Vaio laptops in the US, but according to some reports the number of these laptops may be as many as 440,000. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CSPC) will co-operate with Sony in this connection.

These laptops have been found with a problem that may cause overheating and short-circuit which increase the risk of its operator being burned. So far, one minor burn and 15 overheating complaints have been found.

VGN-TZ100, TZ-200, TZ-300 and TZ-2000 are among those four Vaio models that have the problems and they were sold during July 2007 to August 2008. Click here to read more »