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In a move more “Um, yeah…” than “Oh yeah!”, Citroen has released the sixth teaser image of the car that will, one of these days, be revealed entirely to the world, all at once, front and back. We aren’t even sure if this qualifies as a tease, since getting a glimpse at a front end we’ve already seen doesn’t really ring the bell. What we can say is that one of our commenters appears to be right: the car does look like it’s only 10 inches high.

With all the incompatibility out there surrounded by Guitar Hero / Rock Band instruments, it is a true treat to see somewhat want this. The Director of Publisher Relations at SCEA has requested an update such a promises compatibility between instruments and service for following titles; for instance, Guitar Hero: World Tour’s guitars and drums ought to try amid Rock Band 2 and Konami’s Rock Revolution software, and Rock Band 2’s guitar and drum set is planning to job investing in Guitar Hero: World Tour and providing Rock Revolution. Furthermore, the bunch is even “working hard to ensure compatibility between the Guitar Hero and Rock Band titles by now on the market,” even though we are imparted upon the an announcement on the would surface “shortly.” Rock ‘n roll harmony, baby.

Not content to leave its recently-announced V4500 LCDs to fend for itself in the European market, Sony has brought backup in the order of the X4500 and W4500 Bravia models. The X4500 sequence is accessible in 40-, 46- and 55-inch sizes and characteristics a “floating” design which might compliment the optional colored speaker covers fairly nicely, thank you. Meh — we are myself more and more enthusiastic on the locally-dimming LED backlight, DLNA substantiation and the sheer large amount of of speakers packed to the cabinet (eight on the 55-inch model, six on the tinier ones). We’re too odd to see Sony’s “IB Reduction” in effect, combined amidst interlaced backlight dimming who promises to decrease motion blur without introducing flicker. The W4500 chain appears similar to a modest phase decreased the Bravia ladder and is out there in 40-, 46- and 52-inch sizes. The W4500 string as well has DLNA and LED backlighting in IB Reduction, but no talk about of local-dimming.

EDIT: The W4500 examples do not undergo an LED backlight.
Ultimate picture quality. Ultimate looks.
Introducing the economy of the art BRAVIA™ X4500 and W4500 series

Aug 12, 2008

BRAVIA™ X4500 series
* Full HD 1080p
* Graceful floating design amid translucent frame
* Best-ever clarity, colour, contrast and definition among BRAVIA™ ENGINE 2 PRO
* Rich, deep colours, astronomical contrast and come down electricity consumption based on what i read in new RGB Dynamic LED backlight (46, 55-inch)
* Smoother, brighter fast-moving action surrounded by Motionflow PRO100Hz technology (46, 55-inch)
* Enjoy digital music and photos according to networked DLNA devices

BRAVIA™ W4500 series
* Full HD 1080p
* Innovative styling inspired by new ‘draw the LINE’ design concept
* Superb clarity, colour and contrast investing in BRAVIA™ ENGINE 2
* Smoother, better fast-moving action thanks to Motionflow 100Hz amidst Image Blur Reduction technology
* Enjoy digital music and photos based on what i read in networked DLNA devices

12th August 2008 - Whether you are to the newest movies on Blu-ray™ Disc, nail-biting PLAYSTATION®3 games or sparkling HD broadcasts, there is a mouthwatering opportunity of BRAVIA™ televisions for major viewers who clamor the closing entertainment experience.

“The quality blend of advanced technology and most major design of both the BRAVIA™ X4500 and slim speaker systems, instigate this lendees can now view crystal-clear images in on atmospheric sound without compromising on the seem and feel of this home”, explained George Damigos, General Manager, Marketing, TV Marketing Europe.

“Together surrounded by the feature-packed W4500 series, these kinds of two new BRAVIA™ price points serve the ensured peak of Sony innovation in bringing you the best-looking pictures and an unmatched housing theatre experience.”

BRAVIA™ X4500 series: the exceptionally persist word for critical real estate theatre fans

The stunning flagship of the BRAVIA™ range, the top-of-the-range X4500 string represents the really endure word in unmatched picture worth and breathtaking design.

Available in 3 rating sizes (40-inch, 46-inch, 55-inch), it is packed in on state-of-the-art Sony technologies to deliver Full HD 1080p pictures and dynamic sound who effortlessly surpass everything you have observed before. With no lessened as opposed to 4x HDMI ports for connection investing in a wide array of HD sources, the X4500 string is the closing option for discerning structure cinema enthusiasts who clamor an uncompromised theatrical experience.

Thanks to a valuable new ‘floating’ design, the exquisite seems of the X4500 chain are guarded to take over your service before the TV is significantly turned on. In addition to the handed out sterling silver speaker covers, there is a opportunity of optional speaker covers (Ruby Red or Obsidian Black), permitting for you customise the X4500 string to complement and develop your customized leading space.

To get the ensured highest quality out of your favourite movies, TV broadcasts and games, Sony’s new BRAVIA™ ENGINE 2 PRO filters, cleans and optimises image information before it is displayed on the Full HD 1080p LCD panel. As perfectly as falling picture noise, currently powerful processor widens colour span and smooths motion additonally increasing contrast for deep, cinematic blacks.

For incredible consequences through any picture source desire DVD, the latest-generation DRC (Digital Reality Creation) 3.0 shoots up the resolution employing advanced up-conversion-technology to stream a Full HD 1080p picture. This ensures detail-packed images overly take comprehensive advantage of the highly detailed 1920×1080 panel.

A real cinematic suffer in your own residence demands rich colours and true, deep blacks. For the above all second ever, 46-inch and 55-inch X4500 sequence cases feature an energy-efficient RGB Dynamic LED backlight the current momentarily dims in dark the public of the picture, falling indistinct leakage for boosted contrast and deeper blacks. Clusters of red, purple and green LEDs submit a wider palette of colours as opposed to average grey LED backlights. The result is stunning reproduction of Blu-ray Disc™, DVD and TV broadcast sources, only as the director intended.

46- and 55-inch examples excel amid smooth, lifelike reproduction of sports and a good deal more fast-moving action. Motionflow PRO 100Hz technology intelligently creates surplus frames, putting in them to the hint at and doubling the displayed frame rate. In addition, ‘backlight blinking’ successively switches off horizontal backlight characteristics of the frame investing in every frame. This substantially comes down picture blur without the fatiguing ‘flicker’ affect of average brown frame insertion systems. The 40-inch display size ideal furthermore characteristics new IB Reduction. This ‘cleans’ previous frames before new frame insertion for a more clever image that much amidst decreased motion blur.

Along amidst the W4500 series, the X4500 line is the initial BRAVIA™ television such a connects seamlessly in on opposite networked devices via DLNA in your home. It’s easy to access, share and enjoy digital photos and music in on a good amount of certified devices almost the piece of real estate – fancy VAIO Blu-ray Disc™ PCs and !no! compatible media devices.

You can in addition view your pictures by putting in a USB Memory stick to the USB include on the half of the TV or by directly connecting your Cyber-shot™ or further digital cameras to your BRAVIA™. Enjoying your detail-packed photos in Picture Frame Mode on a 40 inch or a good deal perfect score is planning to bid your memories returning to life.

The final BRAVIA™ entertainment suffer is wound up by an innovative audio process providing 6 chief speakers and 2 woofer speakers on the 55X4500 and 4 primary and 2 woofer speakers on 40X4500 / 46X4500.

Surround effects can be optimised for sports, make a home music concerts or movies, or customised for maximum enjoyment of any sort of programme. The combination of the ultra-thin order investing in the largest technology of the finger speaker and make it easier for woofer produces a really crisp sound grade without fluctuating the style and design of the TV1.

BRAVIA™ W4500 series: exciting images surrounded by any HD source

Whether you are to sports, gaming or whole TV viewing, the BRAVIA™ W4500 sequence delivers extraordinary picture and sound superiority to get the essentially top out of your favourite HD sources.

Available in 3 rating sizes (40-inch, 46-inch, 52-inch), the set characteristics effortlessly new seems inspired by Sony’s audacious ‘Draw the Line’ design concept. Sharing the majority of of the same picture ideas as its X4500 sibling, the BRAVIA™ W4500 chain is packed investing in present Sony technology for the best-looking Full HD pictures you have regularly seen.

BRAVIA™ ENGINE 2 processing guarantees sharp clarity, colour, contrast and definition, additonally Motionflow 100Hz technology carries on fast-moving action crisp and clear. In addition, new IB Reduction ‘cleans’ first frames before new frame insertion for a more intelligent image amidst ebbed blur.

The W4500 chain moreover lets you enjoy multimedia content of a good amount of devices on your residential structure network too validation the DLNA standard.

Japan’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun reads the present afternoon the present Sony plans to turn over its 11-inch XEL-1 OLED TV in Europe in 2009. That dovetails nicely amid a two-week old statement by a Sony representative who said, “I’d be really surprised if their hasn’t arrived in the UK by 2009.” Us too, in the wake of all, it is carried on on be purchased in Japan from the time December of 2007 and was just recently caught slumming the big box outlets in the US. It just turns out expected then, the current Sony can ramp generation to the rate which by 2009 properties would balance the minimal, European clamor for a $2,500-ish TV measuring clearly 11-inches — million:1 contrast or not. Still, it is all a bit late if you ask us (you did right?) seeing as how Sony plans to be giving medium to extensive OLED panels as the beginning of as April 2009.

If dreams of a likely redesigned PSP do not undergo you waiting, you are a is not for the Maden football, and the color green becomes you going, Sony has the package for you. The Madden NFL 09 PSP Entertainment Pack includes a metallic-blue PSP, Madden NFL 09, 1GB Memory Stick Duo, In Just One Play movie on UMD (apparently they’re significantly pressing movies on UMD), and a voucher for a free of charge download of Beats based on the PSN. It functions $199 such as a larger amount of PSP packs, and is available…now. Question is: who is the Jets’ beginning quarterback?

Ruh roh. Research firm DisplaySearch has just unleashed a new report that takes an in-depth look at the ultrathin XEL-1, and it ended up finding a video lifetime barely half of what Sony promises. Apparently the company ran a couple of Sony’s OLED TVs for 1,000 hours, after which it found that blue luminance degraded by 12-percent, the red by 7-percent and the green by 8-percent. Extrapolating the data it gathered, it estimated that the unit would lose half of its brightness in 17,000 hours — Sony says you can expect 30,000. Of course, Sony is still standing by its numbers, and even we can see that DisplaySearch’s methods aren’t perfectly scientific, but if you were honestly expecting to watch this thing for the next decade (and not a year less), you may want to hit the read link and snoop around.

[Via Yahoo, thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Nothing like washing down an all new WiFi-enabled digiframe with an all new home media server, right? Apparently Sony is firmly in agreement, as it’s also launching its latest multimedia server / NAS drives today in Japan. The 1TB VGF-HS1 / 1.5TB VGF-HS1S would stack nicely atop your VAIO HTPC, and aside from boasting gigabit Ethernet, DLNA compatibility, an integrated display, USB connectivity and a hidden multicard reader behind the front panel, this unit plays nice with AVCHD, MPEG2, HDV, JPEG, BMP, PNG, WAV, MP3, ATRAC (saywha?), AAC and WMA file formats. Word on the street has these shipping on May 17th for ¥60,000 ($570) / ¥80,000 ($760) depending on capacity, but only time will tell if Sony sees fit to send ‘em Stateside.

[Via Impress]

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2008 was predicted to be a big year for the PS3, and it looks like things are going according to plan: Sony announced today that European PS3 sales had topped the five million mark, and that the PS3 has been outselling the Xbox 360 sur le continent since October. Combined with the PS3’s strong US showings lately, and that’s a pretty solid run — and we’d assume things are only get to get better once MGS4 hits in June. Hmm, looks like a few of you decided to take the plunge after all.

[Thanks, Nimro]

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Look out world, er, Europe, as Sony is debuting a new trio of LCD HDTVs in your neck of the woods. The BRAVIA V4500 line consists of a 26-, 32- and 37-inch model, each of which posses a WXGA (1,360 x 768) panel and the company’s own BRAVIA ENGINE 2 technology. You’ll also find a 33,000:1 contrast ratio on the smaller two, and the whole lot packs 178-degree viewing angles, BRAVIA Sync and a built-in HD tuner for snagging DVB-T / DVB-C signals where available. There’s also the Picture Frame Mode for turning your set into a digital art canvas (USB port included for image viewing), and the three HDMI inputs ensure that your PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and hacked up Atari Jaguar won’t be fighting for sockets. Unfortunately, mum’s the word on a price / release date.

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It’s not a surprise, but it’s still overwhelmingly refreshing to see Sony Ericsson finally (and we do mean finally) bringing some 3G action onto AT&T. The “a” variant of the glossy, colorful Z750 clamshell will be hitting AT&T in an official capacity come early April, featuring an OLED external display cleverly concealed by the phone’s translucent shell, a 2 megapixel camera and media player both backed up with Memory Stick Micro M2 expansion, stereo Bluetooth, and of course, that lovely HSDPA 850 / 1900 that’s eluded Sony Ericsson’s AT&T offerings for far, far too long. Look for it to go out the door for $49.99 after a $100 rebate.