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Sony Links Portable Technology Products
By Glenn Bossik
On February 24, 2000, at CeBIT--a trade fair held annually in Hannover, Germany--Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE) announced that 46 companies had licensed Sony's Memory Stick media. The Memory Stick is a small "digital storage" device for transferring audio, video, and image data from portable products such as digital still cameras, digital video cameras, and digital audio recorders to notebook and desktop computers.
Sony says, "[The] Memory Stick?is currently available in storage capacities of 4 MB, 8 MB, 16 MB, 32 MB, and 64 MB?" The 256 MB version is due out next year, and Sony is developing a 1 GB version.
The digital imaging products from Sony (http://www.sony.com/) that accept the Memory Stick include the CyberFrame, the Cyber-shot digital camera, the Digital Video Handycam camcorder, and the Memory Stick Printer.
The CyberFrame is a digital photo frame with a 5 1/2-inch display for showing still images and for showing "full-motion video" in the MPEG movie mode. Webopedia (http://www.webopedia.com/), an online encyclopedia about computer technology, defines MPEG as a set of standards for the compression of video footage.
The Cyber-shot digital camera is a high-resolution still camera that allows users to take still photos and crop them, and to record MPEG videos up to two minutes and 40 seconds long. These photos and videos can then be transferred to a notebook computer via a Memory Stick PC card adapter or to a desktop computer via a Memory Stick floppy disk adapter.
The Digital Video Handycam camcorder is a video camera that "records mega-pixel still images and motion video." The high-resolution still images can be stored on a Memory Stick and then transferred to a notebook computer or desktop computer via one of the two Memory Stick adapters from Sony.
The Memory Stick Printer has a slot enabling it to accept and print from a Memory Stick.
The digital audio products from Sony that accept the Memory Stick include the Memory Stick Walkman personal stereo and the Memory Stick Voice Recorder.
With the help of a MagicGate Memory Stick, the Memory Stick Walkman can store and play back 80 minutes of digital music obtained from the Internet or from CDs.
The Memory Stick Voice Recorder can record 131 minutes of audio. And, voice files that have been stored on the Memory Stick in the Recorder can be transferred to a Sony VAIO PC.
These voice files can then be converted into the WAV file format and attached to an e-mail message. Webopedia defines WAV as a "format for storing sound in files?"
The personal computing products from Sony that accept the Memory Stick include the VAIO Slimtop LCD desktop PC and two versions of a VAIO notebook computer known as the Z505 SuperSlim Pro.
The desktop VAIO and notebook VAIO computers contain Memory Stick slots. Desktop and notebook computers that don't contain these slots can accept the Memory Stick via one of the two Memory Stick adapters from Sony. |
