Sony Booth Tour

Met with with the Disney folks for the Sony tour.

First stop was the OLED TVs.  These TVs are ultra-thin and ultra bright, making them look gorgeous.  The Sony rep did mention an estimated 30K hour life.  They also had a 27" prototype on display, but nop estimated price or street date yet.

BD-LIVE - Some new features to their Blu-Ray players and PS3 was watching a movie together from different locations, maing it more of a social experience, being able to use interactive features together.

Wireless HD - Sony displayed a prototype solution for uncompressed video that could go up to 200' with only a .7ms delay.

DMEX cards for Bravia line - Sony is developing 'add-on' modules to extend their Bravia line of TVs.  New modules include:
*DVD Link
*'extra' input link
*A wireless link
*Internet link
All could be controlled via the single remote and with the Internet link, they have streaming internet video from approximately 30 partners like CBS and Fox Sports.  It looked very similar to the MS MediaCenter interface.

Click to [BD] Disk - This really caught my attention.  You can use the new BD authoring software that copmes with Vaio copmputers to create multi-angle BD disks, all syncronized via timestamp of video or pictures.  Up to 4 sources were supported and it would also allow for cascading fix of timestamps form a particular source.

82" 4K Panel - An 82" 3840x2160 panel was on display that could display a 10megapixel image or 4 1080p sources on the same screen!

Home Entertainment Server - The HES-V1000 could hold 500 BD disks and had a 500gb HD, with HDMI outputs.  Est prices was $3500

Location Free TV HD - They added HD to this years model and changed the crazy licensing to be a free download, but limited to 8 physical devices.

PSP Enhancements - Added Skype capabilities, Internet Radio streams and an add-on GPS module.

E-Book - The latest version was on display.  Not much different from last years, but it does read PDFs.

Fast-Jet - Similar to the Near Filed Communications described yesterday, this technology allows transfers of data between 'touch'(get within 3cm.). No real security which has me concerned, but its transfer rates were VERY quick and it was streaming HD video from a camcorder.