Sony pitches Blu-ray Vaio desktop
for HD content creation
By 'ard Reg
17th May 2006 08:42 GMT
Sony has followed yesterday's announcement of a Blu-ray Disc
drive-equipped Vaio notebook by touting a desktop fitted with the
same next-generation optical disc system capable of reading and
writing 50GB dual-layer BDs.
The Vaio RC204 also contains a 3.2GHz Pentium D
940, an Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT with 256MB of
graphics memory and an Sony-made HD audio
chip, the Sound Reality Direct Stream Digital (DSD).
Pitched as a HD content creation system, the Vaio is configurable
at purchase with up to 600GB of storage supplied by two
300GB units in a RAID 0 set-up.
The machine will ship with Sony's usual bundled of Adobe software:
the cut-down Elements versions of Photoshop, Acrobat and Premiere,
the latter the developer's video editing tool. The machine also
ships with DVgate Plus 2.2 for capturing HD video and Ulead BD
DiscRecorder for burning it to BD-R/RE. Buyers will also find Roxio
DigitalMedia SE 7 and Intervideo WinDVD BD on board.
Sony didn't say when the machine is scheduled to ship, or how much
it will cost, but we'd expect it to arrive late June for around
£1,700.
