February 2, 2007 4:45 PM PST

Sony finally genuflects before the iPod

by Mike Yamamoto
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(Credit: Electronista)

It's about time that Sony acknowledged reality. Rather than acting as though it's still king of the hill in entertainment hardware, the proprietary-obsessed company has finally broken down and released an iPod docking station (only a few years late, but no one's really counting anymore).

The speaker station even has the official blessing of Apple, according to Electronista, so compatibility with all iPod models should be ensured. There's just one problem--the price. At $250, this has about as much of a chance of succeeding as the Walkman's transition from CDs to MP3s.

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Sony? I seem to recall something about a "rootkit"
by otokichi February 2, 2007 9:34 PM PST
I think I have an old Sony AM/FM/TV radio somewhere. Yep, they were a really interesting company in the last century, but they didn't make it to this century. I wonder if Akio Morita is thinking of resurrecting the name, now that it's been consigned to the scrapheap of history? Towards the end, Sony insisted on courting the "mercedes-benz" crowd, instead of "joe lunchbucket."
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Sony? I seem to recall something about a "rootkit"
by otokichi February 2, 2007 9:34 PM PST
I think I have an old Sony AM/FM/TV radio somewhere. Yep, they were a really interesting company in the last century, but they didn't make it to this century. I wonder if Akio Morita is thinking of resurrecting the name, now that it's been consigned to the scrapheap of history? Towards the end, Sony insisted on courting the "mercedes-benz" crowd, instead of "joe lunchbucket."
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Typical Sony
by make_or_break February 3, 2007 3:59 AM PST
Cave in to the market pressure and join in with all the rest, but STILL price their resultant products as if they somehow superior to the rest of the competition without ever having been [i]proved[/i] as being so.

Small wonder that they fall flat on their face so much lately.
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Typical Sony
by make_or_break February 3, 2007 3:59 AM PST
Cave in to the market pressure and join in with all the rest, but STILL price their resultant products as if they somehow superior to the rest of the competition without ever having been [i]proved[/i] as being so.

Small wonder that they fall flat on their face so much lately.
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Revolutionist in Market
by lekhi123 February 3, 2007 8:24 AM PST
sony is the revolutionist in the market and lets c what is in the bag now..
http://techwhack.blogspot.com
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Revolutionist in Market
by lekhi123 February 3, 2007 8:24 AM PST
sony is the revolutionist in the market and lets c what is in the bag now..
http://techwhack.blogspot.com
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Sony's amplifier claims are distorted
by paul613 February 4, 2007 11:06 AM PST
For the amplifier (power) specs, Sony measures Total Harmonic Distortion at 10%--exactly 100 times as generously as responsible makers used to (remember when amp power was expressed at 0.1% distortion?) and 10 times what the classier competition does. Let's see, 5W + 5W at 10% distortion probably works out to 2 or 3W at 1% distortion; and the 15W subwoofer is really probably 8W at 1%. And Sony wonders why its star has faded.
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Sony's amplifier claims are distorted
by paul613 February 4, 2007 11:06 AM PST
For the amplifier (power) specs, Sony measures Total Harmonic Distortion at 10%--exactly 100 times as generously as responsible makers used to (remember when amp power was expressed at 0.1% distortion?) and 10 times what the classier competition does. Let's see, 5W + 5W at 10% distortion probably works out to 2 or 3W at 1% distortion; and the 15W subwoofer is really probably 8W at 1%. And Sony wonders why its star has faded.
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