4 posts and columns on ATRAC

Voices

Sony Shifts on Open Source

in News on May 21, 2010 at 1:03 pm PT

The partnership between Sony Corp. and Google Inc. highlights the changes taking place in TV viewing habits, but it is also symbolic of another change: Sony’s stance on open-source technology. Historically, the knock on Sony has been that it has a blind allegiance to its own proprietary technology.

Yes, Virginia, There Is a Vista Service Pack 1

in News on August 30, 2007 at 11:00 am PT

Sony CONNECT Disaster Impressively Well Realized

in News on August 30, 2007 at 5:04 am PT

Sony ATRAC is at long last joining Betamax, MiniDisc, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, HiFD, (pause for breath) Multi-Media Compact Disc, Memory Stick and Super Audio CD in the company’s Museum of Failed Formats. After an overlong and unsuccessful campaign to spread adoption of ATRAC, Sony is scrapping the proprietary audio format. This morning the company [...]