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Sony Electronics announced today that is has begun shipping 50 GB Blu-ray media in the United States. The current media are write-once technology; Sony says it plans to ship rewritable Blu-ray media later this year. “The arrival of 50 GB Blu-ray Disc media is an important milestone in the evolution of this new format,” said Mike Lucas, Sony Electronics' director of marketing for Media and Application Solutions Division,… Read More

Sony on Tuesday announced a new removable hard drive which is designed to fit into Compact Flash type II slots, such as those found on digital still cameras. The Compactvault is priced at $199.99 and expected to be available later this month. The Compactvault, said Sony, offers ups a storage capacity of 5GB, which equates to up to 1,600 JPEGs (at 3MB each) or 200 minutes of MPEG4 video. It measures just over 1-1/2 inches wide, is… Read More