Sony's decision to drop its ATRAC file format and shutter the Connect music store signals a radical departure for the electronics giant, which has tried for 15 years to market its proprietary file ...

Sony's newest Walkmen, the NWZ-A810 and NWZ-S610, will support video and an open platform; the former is the marketing hook, but it's the latter that frees ATRAC inmates from the meathook. Both ...

In case you missed it, Sony's CONNECT music services based on the ATRAC audio format are finally -- at long last -- coming to an end. In North America and Europe, anyway. The off again, on again music ...

ATRAC is on the fast track for extinction. Sony’s closing its Sony’s music store and it’s been dumped from their two newest video Walkmen, the NWZ-A810 and NWZ-S610, which are all about an “open ...

Over the past three to four years, I’ve always kept an eye on Sony’s MP3 Walkmen players. Though they look cool at times and have some features I’d enjoy (like FM Radio), the fact that they are not OS ...

Toshiba has expanded its family of digital signal processors (DSPs) for digital audio equipment with the world's first single-chip CD LSI to offer support for both MP3 and Sony ATRAC CD formats. The ...

Perhaps oxymoronic considering the source, the player will not support Sony's MiniDisc era codec, ATRAC; a milestone in and of itself. Instead, the player touts MP3, non-DRM'd WMA, and presumably AAC ...

Well my younger bro has had his Sony mp3 discman replaced 3 times already so I said bugger that, got a refund and got him a 15 gig i-pod. He has 3 disc FULL of music in Atrac form....ATP files I think ...

Sony is learning the media player industry, slowly. There is rumor that Sony is going to start making media player that allow user to transfer music files without Sony's SonicStage that convert music ...