Sony opens up Open House 2008

In case you were wondering how Sony managed to completely take over Engadget and Engadget HD, it's their annual Open House event in Vegas, where all the slightly more minor stuff that didn't make it into CES gets pushed out for spring / summer release. Check out all the news gathered up below.

Home theater

• Sony announces BDP-S350, BDP-S550: first new Blu-ray players since the fall of HD DVD
• Sony launches S-AIR multi-room wireless audio standard, gear
• Sony's new high end theater tops out with $85k rack system
• Sony's latest home theaters in boxes land
• Sony announces PS-LX300USB USB turntable, ready to fight next format war against 8-track

Portable audio

• Sony debuts A820, A720 and S710F series Walkman players in the States
• Sony squirts out new iPod dock, Bluetooth gear
• Sony releases bunches of low-priced headphones for kids, athletes, your mom
• Sony's debuts new noise canceling headphones, refreshes EX series earbuds

Other stuff

• VAIO Graphic Splash Expression Collection verbosely lets you style your Sony laptop
• We say "no comment" to Sony's six new voice recorders

[Ken @ Feb 26th 2008 4:09AM]

Start Engadget Sony already, jeeze.

After filling almost the entire front page with blatant Sony propaganda, you add insult to injury with an immediate recap. Oh, and if you had nothing at ALL to say about the voice recorders, why copy and paste the product release at all?

It's really a shame how much you've changed in such a short time, Engadget.

[Joel @ Feb 26th 2008 4:16AM]

Not even Ryan Block is immune to the moneyhat, it seems.

[Fred @ Feb 26th 2008 4:20AM]

Very true. And still people keep voting for Engadget in the 'best technology blog' category. Sadly.

[Deluxe @ Feb 26th 2008 4:33AM]

I bet you're all the people that never stop whinging..

"IF YOU DON'T LIKE ALL THE APPLE POSTS JUST SKIP PAST THEM AND DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME COMMENTING ON HOW STUPID IT IS!!!1ONE!APPLEKEY!"

[yoggit @ Feb 26th 2008 5:09AM]

for all your engadget bashing, you're obviously here reading it!

[Joel @ Feb 26th 2008 6:36PM]

I don't think you guys get jokes.

[Got Beef @ Feb 26th 2008 4:57AM]

Wow, no Apple news for the last hour? :o

[M @ Feb 26th 2008 8:03AM]

and i thought sony had acquired engadget....;)

[Poom @ Feb 26th 2008 8:44AM]

... I think you all should stop complaing about having Sony's articles consecutively. There's an event with many press releases. Of course, Engadget will have to deliver these news as soon as they are out; or else some people would complain about the late news and how they are not posted in the same time. Just look at Macworld every year... We always get a bunch of Apple posts consecutively, though we already do without an event...

Yea, I agree that consecutive posts about a company can be irritating, but you shouldn't stop posting news because they come out at the same time. Maybe Engadget can do a collapse/expand kind of menu? Like click and all the macworld announcements are expanded out from the category.

[M @ Feb 26th 2008 12:45PM]

why do we need to bicker about the entries? if you dont like it, just skip it, we cant please everyone, right? you cant ask newspapers not to publish something just coz you dont like it right? its engadget's job to provide uptodate news about these gear, right?