Sony to Unveil First Blu-Ray Laptop
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Sony Corp. (SNE) will release the first laptop capable of playing, editing and recording next-generation, high-definition videos in the Blu-ray dvd format
Sony, which led the development of the Blu-ray format, said Tuesday the new VAIO AR Premium model will be available this summer for $3,500. Besides the Blu-ray DVD drive, the entertainment-oriented notebook computer features a 17-inch display, an integrated TV tuner, and Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)'s Windows Media Center Edition operating system.
Blu-ray is one of two competing high-definition DVD formats that displays video in 1080p - the sharpest in high-definition quality.
The other next-generation format is HD DVD. Toshiba Corp., one of the HD DVD format's main developers, last week introduced the first laptop to play HD DVD discs. But unlike the Sony laptop, the $3,000 Toshiba laptop's HD DVD drive cannot record or edit in high-definition.
Sony's new laptop will be among a number of other Blu-ray compatible products Sony plans to begin selling later this year.
Adding to a growing crop of ultracompact notebooks in the computer industry, Sony also will introduce Tuesday a laptop that weighs 1.2 pounds and is roughly the size of a 4x6 photo print but is 1.5-inch thick.
The VAIO UX Micro PC features the Windows XP operating system, a 4.5-inch screen, a slide-out keyboard, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth wireless technologies, and built-in cameras. It will be available in July at $1,800, Sony said.
Hey, I'm in. Blu-ray hi def, 17" screen, recordable high def, tv tuner, yeah, I'm there! Soon as I hit the lottery that is. If you have the bucks, go for it.
Latest Spears Photos Spark Safety Debate
LOS ANGELES (AP) - It's not a role she auditioned for, but pop star Britney Spears has become a poster woman for child car-seat safety.
"In one regard, she's done more for child safety-seat awareness than anyone else in California," California Highway Patrol spokesman Tom Marshall said Tuesday. "The fact that she's a big star doesn't play into it for us."
Front-page photographs in Tuesday's New York Post and New York Daily News depict the 24-year-old pregnant pop star driving her convertible Mini Cooper with 8-month-old son Sean Preston in the back, sitting in a car seat facing forward.
The photos - in which Spears also sports hair curlers - have sparked debate over whether the singer violated the California vehicle code.
The code states that child safety-seats must be properly installed according to federal safety guidelines which recommend that babies up to a year old and up to 20 pounds ride in them in the back seat facing backward, Marshall said.
However, the singer's publicist Leslie Sloane Zelnik said Spears was in "total compliance" with California state law.
She cited California Vehicle Code 27360, requiring that "all children under the age of 6 or weighing less than 60 pounds be in safety seats in the back seat of the car," Zelnik said in a statement Tuesday. "Having a child in the child safety-seat facing forward in the rear seat of the car is in compliance with California law."
But Marshall said the code contained "a bit of a gray area."
"The vehicle code doesn't say you have to have the baby seat in a rear-facing position," but does maintain following federal guidelines, he said. "The bottom line is that if an officer saw her, one officer could have said it was no problem, and another could have given her a citation."
In February, authorities visited Spears' home after photos showed her driving in a car with the baby on her lap, rather than in a safety seat as required by law. Spears later apologized, saying she held the boy because of an encounter with paparazzi.
Spokesman Mike Marando of the California Office of Traffic Safety said Spears, if anything, was "breaking the spirit of the intent of the law, which is keeping the child alive."
It's more dangerous in the case of a collision to seat infants facing forward in the rear of the vehicle, he said.
Other complications remain.
Car-seat manufacturers have varied instructions on the proper use and positioning of car seats, based on the weight of the child, said CHP spokeswoman Fran Clader.
Some recommend forward-facing seats, and some recommend rear-facing seats.
"I can safely say that 90 percent of folks are not using child car seats properly," she said. "If the public has any questions, they can make an appointment with a CHP office, including Britney Spears."
Okay, since I am not a member of CHPS, I have NO comment on the child seat debate. However, this story falls under the "tacky" heading because, "recent superstar, Ms Spears, personifies your typical "poor white trailer park trash" riding around in her convertible with curlers in her hair"! Did all that money and fame turn her into one of Bobby Sharpe's Stupid People, or, was she always like that? What a shame!
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