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Media Go is a media player and media library application that runs on Microsoft Windows and was developed by Sony Entertainment Network.The software organizes and plays a wide variety of multimedia content including video, music, podcasts and photos, and can share them in a network as a DLNA server. [1]
The XMB was also the menu system in the 2007 generation of Sony's Bravia TVs. [2] [3] Sony also added the XMB to its Vaio laptops. [4] The interface won the Technology & Engineering Emmy Award for "Outstanding Innovation and Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Best Use of Personal Media Display and Presentation Technology" in 2006. [5]
The following is a list of Bravia television products manufactured by Sony. In 2005 they discontinued their previous "WEGA LCD" line, and all Sony televisions are now known as Sony Bravia. Starting in 2013, the model year is encoded in a letter of the alphabet, so all 2015 models have a letter "C" in their name.
Sony Bravia Internet Video first became available in late 2009 on Internet enabled Bravia TV's, later becoming available on Sony Blu-ray and home theatre systems. The original Bravia Internet Video was built around Sony's XMB interface and had several streaming media partners including: Amazon Video On Demand, YouTube, Yahoo!, Netflix and Sony Video (Qriocity).
Sony has also used WEGA as a name for flat-screen televisions with newer technologies than CRT. Their flat-panel LCD televisions were branded LCD WEGA until summer 2005 [7] [8] [9] when they were rebranded BRAVIA. There are early promotional photos of the first BRAVIA televisions still bearing the WEGA label.
Direct Stream Digital (DSD) is a trademark used by Sony and Philips for their system for digitally encoding audio signals for the Super Audio CD (SACD).. DSD uses delta-sigma modulation, a form of pulse-density modulation encoding, a technique to represent audio signals in digital format, a sequence of single-bit values at a sampling rate of 2.8224 MHz.
S/PDIF can carry two channels of uncompressed PCM audio or compressed 5.1 surround sound; it cannot support lossless surround formats that require greater bandwidth. [ 4 ] S/PDIF is a data link layer protocol as well as a set of physical layer specifications for carrying digital audio signals over either optical or electrical cable.
Some MP3 players can encode directly to MP3 or other digital audio formats directly from a line-level audio signal (radio, voice, etc.). [ citation needed ] Devices such as CD players can be connected to the MP3 player (using the USB port) in order to directly play music from the memory of the player without the use of a computer.