wa1
Latest
Engadget Podcast 096 - 01.08.07
While the show floor is just about to open, we've already had a few days chock full of content. Ryan and Peter sat down with some other members of the Engadget family to talk about some HD announcements, first looks at at new cameras and the big two keynotes of Sony and Microsoft. No enhanced show today, but we've got three more Engadget podcasts on tap while we're in lovely Las Vegas. Get the podcast [iTunes] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes (enhanced AAC). [RSS MP3] Add the Engadget Podcast feed (in MP3) to your RSS aggregator and have the show delivered automatically. [RSS AAC] Add the Engadget Podcast feed (in enhanced AAC) to your RSS aggregator. [RSS OGG] Add the Engadget Podcast feed (in OGG) to your RSS aggregator. Hosts: Peter Rojas and Ryan Block Producer: Randall Bennett Music: Solvent - Instructograph (Ghostly International) Program: 02:26 - Live from the Sony Keynote 05:40 - Sony's new camcorders, including four new consumer HD cams 05:56 - Sony's wireless boombox, the WA1 06:52 - Sony Vaio VGX-TP1 announced, loaded up with HDMI out, DVD burner 09:10 - Sony announces "BRAVIA Internet Video Link" for HD content 12:30 - Xbox 360 IPTV interface gallery 17:52 - Windows Home Server, everything you need: features rundown, screens, hands-on 20:44 - Wireless HDMI over UWB? Heck yes! 21:33 - Microsoft announces the HP TouchSmart PC 22:12 - Live from the Bill Gates keynote 26:10 - A lunchtime chat with Bill Gates at CES 29:20 - Sharp trumpets 108-inch LCD TV, world wonders why 32:15 - LG's BH100 hybrid Blu-ray & HD DVD player: $1,199 34:41 - Samsung builds on ATSC, develops A-VSB for mobile broadcasting 39:00 - Live coverage of Verizon's press conference 43:25 - Hands-on with the Samsung SCH-U620 for Verizon 44:10 - Hands on with the LG VX9400 for Verizon 44:57 - Nokia puts Nseries on a diet: the N76 47:38 - Hands on with the Treo 750 LISTEN (MP3) LISTEN (AAC) LISTEN (OGG) Contact the podcast: 1-888-ENGADGET, Engadget (Gizmo Project) or podcast at engadget dawt com
Sony's new Vaio WA1 streams internet radio through the home
Streaming music and internet radio stations from you PC to a shiny WiFi-equipped box is not a new idea by a long shot, but it's nice to see Sony joining the fray with its Vaio WA1 all the same. The boombox works via a normal wireless network or a peer-to-peer connection with your computer, and includes a USB WiFi adapter for sans-wireless luddites. Naturally, the player supports that codec of codecs, Sony's ATRAC, but there's also unprotected AAC and WMA, along with good ol' MP3. Internet radio comes courtesy of Live365.com. If you'd rather not be cooped up in the house all day to rock out to your tunes, you can pull 128MB of musics over to the WA1 and hoist the unit onto your shoulder for 4 hours of battery-fueled boombox-style tunes. There's a remote included, along with touch-screen controls, a five-line LCD, line-in, analog and S/PDIF audio out, a heaphone jack and a music alarm clock function. Of course, all these frills don't come cheap: Sony's charging $350 for the unit. They'll be selling 'em online in white and black varieties.
