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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So long ATRAC, hello NWZ-A810 and NWZ-S610 Sony Walkmans. The A810 we've seen before, twice in fact, but this is the first time the S610 (pictured) has wiggled free from the rumor mill all dolled-up ...

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 ...

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 ...