All About Sony And Myself…

Sony just finished a prestige object in the Lombardia Region of Italy. The most famous designers and craftsman made a dozen of sensational studies for upcoming sony products.

They hope to get more into the High-End Business or - at least - fill the brand with the glory of former days.

Look at:
http://www.sony.net/Fun/design/events/2007/milano/products1.html

The Sony A2DP Bluetooth Receiver TDM-BT1 is available throughout Europe for about 80 Euros.

I myself bought the Sony Ericsson A2DP Receiver and was badly disappointed of the sound quality (read my review). I immediately sold it in Ebay.

I gave the Sony TDM-BT1 a new try. The product has the following specs:

• Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
• 55gr weight
• 1m supplied cable with stereo chinch connectors
• Support for native streaming of MP3, AAC, ATRAC and WAV

This is promising and the soundquality I got is really good. Not as good as connecting for example the NW-A808 by using its own desk stand to the receiver but much better than the Sony Ericsson product. It sounds louder because it has the same output voltage on the stereo chinch cable as your CD player has. This is a step forward.

Keep in mind that for 80 Euros you won’t get an audiophile D/A converter! The Pinnacle soundbridge sounds much better when connected digitally to your receiver.

I was able to stream MP3, AAC, ATRAC and WAV without on-the-fly converting to the A2DP sound compression standard SBC-Codec from my Sony Ericsson W880i and from the latest Sony Walkman with Bluetooth Kit. I failed in getting a proper connection from my Sony Vaio LA computer by using the Belkin USB Bluetooth adaper. The WLAN in my living room interfere with the Bluetooth and the signal was distorted. This is too bad that Bluetooth and WLAN are not working “same time in same room”. The supplied Belkin software converted all sounds from my Vaio to the SBC-Codec in a medicore bandwidth and the Sony TDM-BT1 sounded not better than my old FM-Radio

Ok, the TDM-BT1 is a good product. But if you wan’t really good sound quality buy the Soundbridge. Or, even better than the soundbrige: Use a Sony Playstation 3 with the latest firmware and install a DLNA compliant Media Server Software on your PC such as the Twonky Media Server and stream your music to the PS3! Connect the Playstation 3 digitally to your receiver, Optical Digital Cable or HDMI, and enjoy!

Sadly, not as reported previously, the Sony Bravia D3000 series are not capable of displaying true 1080p with true 24p - this feature is reserved for the later-this-year-being-introduced X-Series TVs.

The Sony Bravia D3000 series can process pictures with up to 1080i. When feeded with Playstation 3 input by using its latest firmware it is indeed possible to switch to 1080p. But:

• All 1080p input will be converted to 1080i by using the new Sony Motionflow Technology
• All 1080p 24p input will be re-processed internally by the D3000 series resulting in 100 full-frames per second by using the Motion Flow Technology - 1080 Interlaced

Nevertheless, as mentioned, the picture quality is impressive. I will check this agains the X-Series as soon as possible. To those amongst you who fancy the real most sophisticated thing, you should wait for the X-Series!

NEW! READ MY OWN REVIEW OF THE SONY BRAVIA KDL-40D3000 HERE!

http://sonyfanboy.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/sony-bravia-kdl-40d3000-review-sony-bravia-kdl-40d3000-testbericht-german/

The long awaited successor of the M600i smartphone by Sony Ericsson has finally hit the shelfs. As announced here on the sonyfanboy website it has the following main features:

- UKW Radio with RDS (not existant in M600i)
- WLAN (not existant in M600i)
- 3,2 Megapixel Camera (not existant in M600i)
- Front Camera for UMTS Video Telephony
- Symbian 9.1 / UIQ 3.0

My first experience with this new phone was much promising. It is only 17mm thick and about the same weight than the M600i but got a huge feature list update which makes this engineering impressive.

Sony Ericsson has improved system stability. This was a big problem with the current smartphone family. My brother-in-law for example have several crashes a day with his M600i and auto restarts for “better system performance”. So again, this is promising.
Also, Sony Ericsson has improved system speed. On the 2.6″ color display programs start and react much much faster than on all previous mobiles. The Sony Ericsson P1i is capable of playing back MPEG4/AVC video files with 320×240 pixels at 30 seconds frame rate flawlessly. The response time of the display is improved and the video looks beautiful.

Even though the built-in camera has nominal 3,2 megapixel the picture quality is much worse than the one of the Sony Ericsson K800i/K810i. But still good enough for MMS or picture notes.

Stay tuned for a full review soon.