Sony has officially announced itself as a PMP manufacturer like all other PMP manufacturers by introducing the NWZ-S610 PMP and by announcing the demise of Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC), Sony’s proprietary audio compression. The S610 is a 1.8-inch QVGA player with MPEG-4 and AVC (aka H.264) playback at 30fps and MP3, , WMA (and WMA-DRM), AAC (non-DRM) playback. It’s available in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB versions at $120, $140 and $210 respectively. It plays 9.5 hours of video, 33 hours of audio and is available in Black, Silver, Red, and Pink. It a terrific solid design but what is does is plant Sony on iPod-alternative ground. A company as innovative and historic as Sony shouldn’t settle for this.
August 30th, 2007 at 11:36 am
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