Sony adds HDTV output to digital cameras
- Posted by admin on February 28th, 2007 filed in Technology news
(InfoWorld) - Sony is aggressively promoting high-definition televisions (HDTVs) to consumers and soon it will have a range of digital still cameras to match.
Many of the company’s new Cybershot cameras, which will hit global markets in March and April, offer an output for HDTVs.
Most current digital cameras support the ability to view pictures on a television set, but this is almost always at standard definition, which is close to VGA resolution of 640 pixels by 480 pixels. More often than not, the original image is much higher quality, so a better image could be displayed on an HDTV if the camera were capable of generating such a video image. That’s what Sony has enabled its new Cybershot cameras to do.
“We are strongly promoting the importance of high-definition quality,” said Kiyoshi Shikano, corporate senior vice president of Sony Marketing (Japan) at a Tokyo news conference Wednesday. “Here in Japan penetration of HDTV is going up every day. It’s now almost at 30 percent of households so because of that we’re encouraging people to watch digital still camera pictures at the level of high-definition rather than standard level.”
An additional cable will be required for the high-definition connection. The VMC-MHC1 cable will go on sale on March 9 in Japan for
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