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Is it time for Sony to drop the PS3's price?

At up to $470 fully loaded, Sony's PS3 doesn't come cheap, so I'm going to have to agree with EEDAR analyst Jesse Divinich when he suggests the PS3 is getting clobbered by Microsoft's recent Xbox 360 price cuts.

| News | Personal tech | 10/09/08 at 9:15 am |


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Sony's latest OLED TV prototype is 1 millimeter thin

Sony has unveiled a prototype OLED (organic light emitting diode) television that's less than a millimeter thin -- that's one third the thickness of its current OLED television and a tenth that of its thinnest LCD (liquid crystal display) set.

| News | Personal tech | 10/05/08 at 8:43 pm |


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Blu-Ray hits the skids, numbers continue to decline

One of the driving forces behind Sony's plan for the PS3, Blu-Ray, is showing signs of decline.

| News | Personal tech | 09/23/08 at 9:58 pm |


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September's coolest electronics

When it comes to new gadgets there's nothing better than a product that breaks ground in a market sector or does something genuinely new. This month we're got examples of both: Sony's latest LCD TV that's less than a centimeter thick and the first digital still camera to bridge the gap between compact point-and-shoot models and bulkier SLRs (single lens reflex) with interchangeable lenses.

| Opinion | Hardware | Personal tech | 09/15/08 at 11:36 am |


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