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To: Tim Michaels who started this subject9/18/2000 1:48:36 PM
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New Sony notebook includes video
By Yoshiko Hara
EE Times
(09/15/00, 3:50 p.m. EST)

TOKYO — Sony has proposed a new form of Vaio portable PC for an upcoming "personal cast" era in which consumers will begin to broadcast programs by themselves on the Web.

VaioGT is a combination of video camera and compact Windows PC. The prototype PC is approximately A5 (210 x149 mm) size with an LCD display and a full-function video camera. The display and the video camera are not detachable, but they rotate to give users the best shooting position.

Sony is already marketing the Vaio C1 series of portable PCs with built-in cameras for video e-mailing, but the picture size and resolution is limited to less than QCIF (144 x 176 pixels).

VaioGT will have full video shooting capability of DV or MPEG2 resolution. Video footage will be directory-recorded as Windows files on the PC. "We will decide the detailed specifications such as file format and compression format for marketing sometime at year's end or early next year," said Keiichiro Shimada, senior general manager of Sony Information Technology Company in charge of notebook PCs. "By proposing a new lifestyle, we want to expand the PC market," he said.

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