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Sony Announces New Bravias for Japan
Mon Jan 25, 2010 at 02:00 PM ETTags: Sony, Bravia (all tags)
They’re slim, they’re slick and they’re hitting Japan in February.
Most of the time, foreign releases of cool products aren’t worth mentioning. It’s a bit different with Sony. The Japan based company has a tendency to release their products in their homeland before sending them out to the rest of the world, so much of the time Japanese Sony releases act as sneak previews of upcoming US releases.
On February 25th, Sony will be releasing a total of eight new televisions in Japan. There’s a trio of EX300 televisions in smaller sizes and lower resolutions. They’re coming in black, brown, white, and, in the case of the 22” model, pink.
The most compelling new releases are of the KLD-EX700 line, which consists of four televisions ranging from 32” up to 52”. They’ve got LED backlighting – edge lit – and a 1080p resolution. They’re nice and thin, measuring in at just twenty-two millimeters.
Sony’s baked a few widgets in there as well, including YouTube and other Japanese streaming services. The EX700 line is DNLA compliant to boot, so you can stream movies and song directly from a networked PC. They’re not wireless natively, but a dongle can be purchased to add WiFi capability.
The new TVs are priced right in the range we’d expect to see. The smallest of the EX700s runs around $1,300 US, while the 52” model goes for the equivalent of $3,300.
Source: Impress (via Google translate)
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