Win A Sony Vaio P In Our Vaio Community Contest (USA Only)

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Sony has launched a new community for VAIO owners called VAIO Community, which we covered last month. On behalf of this new opportunity, Sony and Sony Insider are teaming together to give away a Sony VAIO P to one of our lucky readers who live in the USA – don’t worry, we will do international contests eventually. All you have to do is tell us a unique story about your favorite Sony product, such as a good experience with it, ways it enhances your lifestyle, etc. Be creative! Feel free to write or submit a YouTube link of your video with that product if you wish. The best overall submission will receive a Vaio P free of charge from Sony on behalf of VAIO Community and Sony Insider. I hope reading this really motivates you – it’s not like we are the biggest site in the world so if you give us something quality you may very well win.

You have until July 15th to leave a comment with your submission. Good luck, and we look forward to your efforts. Huge thanks to Sony for this opportunity.

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Jul 2009
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  • lynux3

    It was E3 2005 and Sony Computer Entertainment had just shown the world their Killzone 2, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and Resistance: Fall of Man trailers. My excitement for the PlayStation 3 was through the roof. A year later Sony Computer Entertainment told the world it was going to $599.99… Ouch. $600 was a lot of money to me then, but come November 17th, 2006 when PlayStation 3 launched and I picked it up at my local GameStop, all I cared about was opening it and plugging it in for the first time. I rushed home and recorded a video of unboxing such a powerful, sexy piece of hardware. I was floored at how awesome it looked, but as soon as I plugged it in and signed up for the brand new PlayStation Network to play Resistance: Fall of Man online… I immediately forgot about how much I just spent on one of the best purchases of my life. I admit that I wasn't that hardcore of a gamer then, but when I heard about what the PlayStation 3 could do in terms of visual quality and experience I quickly became the gamer I once was when the original PlayStation came out. Flying through the skies with the SIXAXIS motion controls in Warhawk is a blast and giving drivers hell in MotorStorm are some of the best experiences I had when I first played. So a huge thanks to Sony and Sony Computer Entertainment for such an awesome piece of hardware and amazing exclusives.

  • Mike Kealiher

    My favorite sony product is the Playstation 3, i play it a lot, and like how innovative the graphics are.

  • Jesse Eward

    The PSP is great for gaming my nefews and i have weekend compitions on it ot see who can get the high scores. Good family fun.

  • Adam Kealiher

    I play the PS3 and PSP. The games are great and graphics are AMAZING!

  • jitty

    I've had experiences with multiple Sony products but I would have to say my most memorable experience was with the Sony MDR-NC20 headphones. I had just begun looking into noise cancelling headphones and the NC20's seemed like the best choice. The instant I found a good deal on them I bought them. They were the first really good headphones I had bought so I was eager to try them the instant I brought them home. When I first put them on the difference in sound quality was amazing, it was like the difference between listening to something on an old cassette and listening to something live! Later on, I was eager to try them on a flight I was going to take. When I tried them in flight, the noise cancelling worked so well that it almost felt weird; the amount of vibration I was feeling from the plane didn't match up with the level of sound I was hearing! Though it only made listening to music, and my overall flight, more comfortable. So naturally, with their awesome sound quality and active noise cancellation, not to mention their light weight, the NC20's became the sole headphones I used for all situations.

  • ascariss

    too bad it is USA only. Good luck to those who enter.

  • http://twitter.com/jennmcgroary Jenn McGroary

    I've been using my Vaio VGN-B100B for several years now for business. It has been a very reliable machine and would love to add to the family. :-)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bobby-McConnell/1557041210 Bobby McConnell

    Favorite of all time has to be the Walkman. It revolutionized the portable music industry and look at where it has grown and how many products still emulate what it represents.

  • http://s643.photobucket.com/albums/uu154/talocaca/?action=view&current=DSC03637.jpg Miguel Ruiz Velasco

    Well, I hope we win something cause this is quite personal. I lived in Japan for a year from 2007 and I remember seeing the Rolly for the first time at the Sony building in Ginza. It was love at first sight. I used to go and see it so often, I'm sure the staff thought I was a stalker or something. Then they dared to release the Black version on April the 19th. and it was worst! as the main gripe that I had with the original was that it looked like an egg. Even worst when it started showing up in most major retailers (Bic Camera, Yodobashi, etc)….I'm sure at least I made Sony spend money on me with the amount of fliers I took…So the great news came when on my Bday (June the 29th) my parents sent me some money. And it was more or less 40,000Yen. Enough to finally buy a rolly!…since then I became an ambassador for him (yes I see him as a person) and never stopped ever since. But the biggest shock came when in my Bday party some friends surprised me with some fancy pimped red caps for him. To this day he proudly wears his “bling bling” accesories. And I don't waste time to show off his amazing and multiple talents whenever someone asks if its true that Japanese gadgets are the best. And I'm proud to know that even though there are many Rollys dancing out there. NONE of those will ever look like or have the sentimental value that mine has.

  • Julie

    I could not live without my Sony SRS-GU 10iP iPod Touch docking station. I love it. The sound is awesome and it's light and compact. I can move it from room to room. The fact that it keeps my iTouch charged is just a bonus!!

  • Bman36

    My favorite Sony product of all time is the MZ-R50 MD player. I know its not the most popular product Sony ever made but man was it nice and did the music ever sound good – puts the IPod (of which I have two) to shame. It was made out of metal and had that great solid gadget feel that Sony is known for. It was so small and compact yet so solid and sleek. I loved it and still do. It was the first time that I was able to listen to high-quality sounding on the go and on the run. It was with me everywhere. Bus, car, gym and running. I still have the MD player, although I now use an IPod Touch, and as I am writing this I am still amazed at how cool the thing looks – even after nearly 10 years. I can remember the Sony ad with Eagle Eye Chery sitting in the bus listening to it. Its too bad Sony didn’t do a better job of pushing the concept – that whole copyright issue that keeps on biting them.

  • Dockwatcher

    PS3..PS3..I love my PS3..what a machine. I've had my PS3 for over two years and it's become my favorite past time.The games are terrific and the community outstanding. What can be better than flying your warhawk to your favorite music tracks..or entertaining your kids with the Playstation eye. It's such a reliable well built powerful system that it amazes me. Nothing I have seen comes close to this gaming system. I use it so much I'm replacing the Hard Drive this week to give me more space to download more movies and increase my music library. The upgrades keep coming and the machine keeps evolving…I have four controllers all of which or in a charge rotation so I always have a freshly charged controller..watch out for me this weekend as I have some serious gaming to do.

  • JayIsOK

    My love affair for Sony products began MANY years ago with the Sony Trinitron TV. I was the first in my family to own a color television and I remember the excitement of bring home that box and unpacking that beautiful silver 13 inch TV set. Carefully placing it on my desk, plugging the power cord in and turning the power on. Before my eyes I was viewing the best picture I had ever seen on a television. Even the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences though the Trinitron technology was impressive by awarding Sony an Emmy award. I have owned only three Sony televisions so far in my life because they are built to last forever it seems and never disappointed with any of them.

    After that purchase I went on to discover the other great products within the world of Sony.

  • http://twitter.com/ShanieAIBO Shanie

    “Sony and Sony Insider teaming together to give away a Sony VAIO P to one of our lucky readers who live in the USA – don’t worry, we will do international contests eventually”

    ” All you have to do is tell us a unique story about your favorite Sony product, such as a good experience with it, ways it enhances your lifestyle, etc.”

    Nooooooooooo!! Talking about my AIBO's would have fit lovely into this compo! My best Sony Experience; turning on my first AIBO, waking it up from it's sleep and watching it growing up into a aldut! …Shame it's for USA only. lol

  • Colin_N

    I had landed my first job out of a college – I was a consultant and had the opportunity to travel across the country! While it was exciting to visit other cities, the one thing I always dreaded was the travel itself. Being on a plane for 6+ hours or stuck in an airport due to weather-related delays was never fun. And trust me, reading the same airline magazine articles or flipping through the SkyMall catalog cover-to-cover can only be done so many times!

    March 2005. The PSP. I was a huge PS1 and PS2 fan, so to have a portable Playstation available just blew me away. I pre-ordered one immediately! It made airline travel so much fun – I actually looked forward to going to the airport! I loaded up on games, but found myself always came back to Lumines. It was such a fun game and had amazing music. One of my fondest memories was taking an overseas flight to Asia… certainly not a short flight from the US. My girlfriend (now fiancee) asked to try out Lumines – she was immediately hooked. While she doesn't play videogames too often, I thought it was great that we had a game we both enjoyed. The rest of the flight was a high score competition! She ended up winning, but I managed to take the top spot on our next trip. Many of my colleagues also bought a PSP as well. Our company holds conferences a few times a year, and while I may not remember the keynote speakers, I will always remember multi-player Ridge Racer with four players crammed in a tiny hotel room!

    My PSP likely has as many frequent flier miles as I do. I'm a gadget-holic and always look forward to the latest and greatest devices (PSP Go, anyone?), but the original PSP will always hold a special place in my heart.

  • jibanes

    My Sony experience started back in the old days, around 1980 my dad bought me what turned out to be the first portable cassette player: a Sony TPS-L2. It became, as I was just a kid, my favorite toy. A few years later, my parents bought the first CD player: a Sony CDP-101, it was so advanced in its time that I remember my dad taking pictures of it, just like if it was some rare artifact dugged up from an ancient Egyptian grave. It was, in some ways, making us proud to own one.

    What came next is pretty obvious, my dad bought me a discman a few years later, as our CD collection was getting bigger. While this was a rather bulk device, I did carry it around quite a lot. Then, around 1993-ish I bought myself a Sony Minidisc player. I've ended up owning a few different models, even a record-able one from Kennwood (Sony licensed), and this was a great piece of engineering. It was simply amazing, years above the competition, once again, Sony was giving the competition a run for their money.

    Unfortunately, for costs and licensing reasons, the minidisc didn't take off, and it became difficult to find tunes to buy in minidisc format, but thankfully I had my recorder, so I was converting AudioCD to MD using my different players. Not convenient, but necessary. Few years later, as the industry moved towards virtual medias (mp3, etc.) I moved to the NWZ series, which I'm still in love with. Most people are satisfied with iPods, but clearly if we compare sound quality, the NWZ is just so much better than I would never consider anything else.

    Now, that was for the audio part, but that conditioned the rest. As I was heavily into Sony products and satisfied by them, I sticked to them, owning PS1, PS2 and PS3, and about 5 or 6 different kinds of laptops, from the industry mover X505 to my UX90S. I've even imported some from Japan. Talk about a Sony fan.

    There's a lot of controversy about Sony products in general, DRM, lack of “openness”, or many other things. But I strongly believe that this very single company drives the industry as an ensemble. Without Sony there would be no iPod, because Sony simply leverage the whole industry. It's a trade-off, if you don't like it, vote with your money and buy something else. But if you stick to it, you end up saving money because while Sony products are rather proprietary, they work great between them (a memorystick for a Sony camera will work quite well in a PSP for instance). You pay for that kind of premium, but you get the build quality behind it: a well engineered process; and that's the strong image (for me) of Sony: products well engineered, products that drive the industry, think OLED, think Walkman, Sony is taking huge risks introducing these technologies. Microsoft themselves don't take that sort of risks recycling old versions of XP or Office into different packages with different widgets. Sony is a Driver, not a co-pilot.

    Unfortunately, due to the current state of the economy, I've decided not to upgrate my UX90s, but the keyboard is way too small for my typing needs, so I have to carry an external bluetooth keyboard, which is bulky. I could clearly use a P series, and I would also like to give it a full review, because I believe it's a fair way to reward Sony and Sony Insider of offering this fantastic device (which I have tried in the store, but again, for economical reasons, can't afford at this present time).

    The review will not include benchmarks, this is not what it's about, this is an Ultra Portable series, I don't expect outstanding performances, this is not what this product is about, rather I would focus on an analysis of ergonomy (placement of connectors, battery longevity under different pattern uses, software offer, etc.) I think this to be important and not covered as well by other reviews.

    Well, I certainly hope you can help in this, thank you for this contest and for providing us great news!

  • sugardawg

    I have only had the pleasure of sharing an office with a Sony VAIO Laptop at work. I was so excited just to be able to see the laptop and the fingerprint scanner and the sleek metal keys, I could only admire it. The Sony VAIO shared the same office with me I admired it everyday. I was asked to hook up the charging unit to it and I felt privledged and trusted. I found myself guarding over the Sony VAIO like a mother hen, even though I was not authorized to use it. I always admired Sony VAIO design and style. While my co-worker was often out of the building I urged my boss to lock it up in her office till I returned from vacation, due to the mass amount of public visitors coming in and out of the building. Currently, my lifestyle status is that I have been layoff. While I have been job hunting on the road, I could only imagine pulling out a VAIO P out of my purse to not only conquer applying for a job physically, but, online as well. Pinch me I must be dreaming.

  • Super Mario

    I agree with you

  • miguelruizvelasco
  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Samuel-Felix/1219078413 Samuel Felix

    I had a little trouble trying to answer the question, “how has Sony affected my lifestyle”. Heck at first I really thought it didn't make much of a difference. I mean a product is a product and you get what you pay for. I tried to think back when I was in elementary school. Did I have a craving for anything Sony? No. How about Jr. High, No. High School, again no. But that's just It, Sony was the thing that everyone wanted without consciously thinking about it.

    I remember a time when I was in the 5th grade, one of my friends had just gotten a compact casette player, I asked what brand and he told me what it was (I cant remember) and I said that cool. Another of my friends also got a casette player and I asked for the brand, when he said Sony Walkman I said “Wow that awsome”. Its kind of funny because at that age I didn't know anything about brands and quality, but I did know that if you had a Sony, you were lucky. In Jr. High more and more people had portable CD players but those lucky few who had a Sony were the envy of the School Yard. As time went on, and I grew older, there has always been a Sony product not too far away.

    One of my latest Sony memories was just a couple of months ago when I was shopping for a Boom box or portable music player. I was stuck between two brands, Sony and some other I cant remember. They were both similarly priced but the Other had an ipod dock and was tha latest model and the Sony had a line-in AUX and was the second to latest model. I had a gift card so I didnt want to shop anywhere else. Sure enough I got the Sony and couldn't be happier.

    Sony has had a bigger positive impact on my life than I thought as I'm sure it has had on others.

  • crazyhefer

    Man, where to begin. I have so many sony products, from my 60″ SXRD to my Sony Ericsson w760a. But I would say that is all starts with my Vaio Fw470. I am all about media and technology integration so being able to download to my vaio, whether it be music or movies and stream them to my PS3 which is connected to my KDS-60A3000 which plays the sound through my sony receiver and speakers, is fantastic! Then being able to transfer the same music and movies to my w760a from my vaio is great because I can then listen to them over my car stereo using my MEX-BT5000. My wife and I love the way everything integrates. But, it all starts with my VAIO. I love that it can handle everything I want or need.
    Being portable and watching blu-ray's when we travel is awesome.I love taking it to friends house and hooking up the HDMI and showing them the beauty of blu-ray, all thanks to my VAIO. The 2.4GHz core 2 Duo is also great for Image processing. It easily handles the RAW images shot with my newly purchase a700.
    My VAIO is the Sun in the center of my SONY UNIVERSE!
    Seeing the VAIO P, I so want one! It's beautiful screen, solid-state harddrive, small form factor. This would be a perfect addition to my SONY Family.
    I love the work you guys do thanks for the chance to win one of these great computers.
    I LOVE SONY!

  • benlitman

    When I was a young kid I remember I coveted the Sony Walkman series of CD players, and when I finally got one for my birthday it did not disappoint. I used that Walkman for over five years. Through the Walkman I was introduced to the world of music. From my embarrassing days listening to boy bands to listening to my parent's classic CDs like Queen and Meatloaf, I used the walkman for untold hours. For the five years that I used it it almost never left my side. It made our yearly four day car trips to Idaho much more bearable. I can't imagine another product that I've ever gotten as much use from as I did from that Walkman.

  • Anonymous

    I like computers for porn

  • Anonymous

    benlitman, u r GAY! Boy bands…………. really?

  • Anonymous

    I have sony vibrators, does that count? AH YEAH!

  • aschriver

    I bought a Sony FW-190 and realized the beauty of its simplicity. The sleek titanium color, finished with a mirrored VAIO lettering on the top. A great laptop computer, with impressive styling and looks. What's best is the Sony HDNA 1080p capbablities and built-in Bluray RW drive. I was a on cruise in the Mexican Riveria and created some very beautiful and memorable moments that are now saved on my Vaio FW-190, and now I'm sending the video to all my friends and family, too. Thanks Sony for making a great laptop computer.

  • idexa

    My Sony Vaio: Reflections On A Four-Year Anniversary

    July 2005:

    Summer heat oppresses the residents of Tucson, Arizona. The heart of my ancient no-brand desktop, too often taxed by soaring temperatures, lets out a final whir of distress and gives up the ghost.

    Freshly computerless and short on funds, I'm at a loss: instantly out of touch with most of my friends and family who correspond via e-mail; cut off from online business; unable even to covet the latest technology without driving to the store for a look.

    After an uncomfortable week of Internet withdrawal, fortune smiles on me. A close friend, having learned of my plight, accompanies me to a nearby retailer and instructs me to pick out a laptop. I scamper through the computer section like a kid in a candy store until my gaze settles on a sleek 13.1″ Sony Vaio — impossibly lightweight, beautifully appointed, with an LCD screen whose flatness seems worlds away from the cumbersome CRT monitors hooked up to clunky towers one aisle over.

    I stare at the price tag and bite my lip. Is this an unjustifiable splurge? No; I know right away that it's the one I want, and my friend, in his ineffable generosity, ponies up the cash. I enthusiastically promise him prompt repayment and a share of my eternal soul as I, my new Vaio, and my ear-to-ear grin emerge from the store into blazing midday sunlight.

    March 2006:

    I've been in LA for just over seven months, and it's been a wild ride. My Vaio is my most valued possession and most useful guide to life in a new place — it's connected me with an apartment, a pet cat, restaurant reviews, you name it. In a metropolis this size, the local phone book simply doesn't cut it. The Vaio makes for an eye-catching accessory at my favorite coffee shop, and when I'm not there, you'll find me out on the balcony at night, laptop cradled on my knees, wirelessly exploring the vastness of the city. As for my generous friend, the respectable salary of the job I found online has helped me pay off my debt to him well ahead of schedule.

    January 2007:

    Another minor relocation, another strategic career move, another relationship under the bridge. The trusty Vaio is starting to show faint signs of wear. I recently spilled half a glass of iced tea into its keyboard and promptly succumbed to panic… but its construction was sound, and once I emptied out the liquid and let it dry, it was completely fine. Incredible.

    In fact, the slim little laptop's workload has been significantly increased lately. I'm using it for my job now, reviewing files on the weekends, even burning mix CDs for my boss as a “special project”. (Well, it's a personal computer, so I suppose he isn't misusing company resources…)

    Call me crazy, but whenever I sleep under an unfamiliar roof, I find I drift off most easily when I can hear the whisper of the laptop's fan and see the glow of the monitor reflected on a wall.

    July 2007:

    Today, my Vaio proved to be the best car salesman I've ever met. It provided me with specs, pricing, and availability on the exact make and model I wanted, then tracked down the single car in southern California that met my criteria and told me where to buy it. I showed up on the lot with printouts in hand, completed the entire transaction before lunchtime, and drove home a happy customer.

    February 2008:

    My oldest, dearest friend has passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. The shock and devastation rip through me again and again until all I can do is cry.

    When I open my eyes, when I can see through the tears, it's to update the music playlist on my Vaio, which obediently fills the corner of the room with sublime chorales and beloved melodies from my childhood. I am alone, but I am comforted.

    June 2008:

    Ah, how times have changed. I just had a baby! Voracious research — courtesy of the good old Vaio — has made me possibly the most well-informed mother west of the Rockies. The desktop is cluttered with spreadsheets tracking my diet and health, lists of the pages of baby names my husband and I wistfully vetoed, even an application that timed my contractions as I went into labor.

    Stretched out in the narrow hospital bed, I'm exhausted, but far too excited to sleep. There's television, magazines, newspapers galore if I want them. No need, though: wireless Internet access is free throughout the building, and as my beautiful newborn daughter dozes peacefully in the crook of my arm, my Vaio stands guard on the bedside table, sending out her minutes-old picture with the birth announcements and filling my brain with the child-rearing wisdom of the ages.

    July 2009:

    After four years of exemplary service, I wonder whether my once-formidable Sony Vaio laptop is ready to retire. Now that I've seen the P series, the undeniable allure of shiny new technology weighs against a peculiar sense of attachment to this computer — sure,others could have done for me what this one has, but this one is MINE, and however strange it may sound, it's been one of the few constants in my life over the last couple of years.

    Friends each contribute their two cents, trying to steer me toward chintzy netbooks and stodgy business models. My sense of loyalty remains uncompromised.

    I feel a little guilty as I appraise the aging Vaio, tracing a finger over the tiny scuffs on the outer casing, the solid but smooth-worn keys, the still-gleaming trackpad buttons, and contemplate the faint irony of turning the capabilities of this machine toward the task of selecting and acquiring its replacement. Maybe I'll keep it for emergencies? Better yet, offer it to a student at a bargain price. It has, as they say, a lot of life left in it…

    I admit it. I want a new laptop. I want utility, reliability, and incomparable style. I want a P series.

  • LT11

    Why I love Sony VAIO and your should too

    In early 2005, the day finally came I could purchase my 1st VAIO notebook. As each day passed, I shopped and shopped trying to find that perfectly designed fine tuned machine calling out my name, and as each night came on I laid my head atop my pillow only to fall asleep with visions of VAIO’s dancing in my head. Finally I found the one, I was in love, a VAIO FE Series; from then on nothing else mattered but me and my VAIO.

    Not even a year had passed when my new best friend was falling ill, the battery was not holding a full charge and the letters disappearing from the keypad. I contacted Sony Support explaining the issue and without a hesitation the first response came, “What is your address?” “My address”, I asked. The representative was sending the doctor and his bag of parts directly to me, a house-call. There would be no separation anxiety sending in the notebook, there would be no inconvenience taking the notebook in for repair.

    In just a few days the technician arrived and performed the needed transplant of parts; unfortunately when he left my VAIO was not looking like its old self, although minor, something just wasn’t right. I again telephoned Sony Support only to request the technician pay another visit to fine tune the work performed. When it was requested I send in the VAIO, I emotionally explained my VAIO and I could not be parted, adding my need to meet the deadlines of my job. No further discussion, I was immediately directed to a higher level of support.

    A higher support level? What did I say? What did I do? I wasn’t complaining. I wasn’t screaming at the rep. What Sony said next, I couldn’t believe the truth to my ears, “This is not the Sony customer experience we stand for, we stand behind each and every one of our products”. Sony immediately offered to buy-back my VAIO replacing it with a brand new upgraded unit. I soon would soon find a new love again.

    With TLC, I packed away my VAIO FE Series, waving good-bye as it left with the carrier. I was again off to shop ‘til I dropped, listening for my name to be called out once again. Instead of returning with my new best friend, hard times hit hard and fast like many others leaving the moneys dedicated to purchase a new VAIO utilized to cover the roof over my head and food on the table.

    More than a year passed succumbing to internet cafés and public libraries. I was then blessed with an ancient hand-me-down notebook included with a functional floppy drive; never to meet nor compete with the performance of my long lost VAIO as it crashed nearly every day.

    Early this year, the golden day finally came, the sun was shining bright and I saw the most beautiful rainbow splashed against the bright blue sky. I had scrimped and saved enough to fill the biggest void in my life, the purchase of a new VAIO FZ Series, a discontinued model, but never the better. I felt whole again, my VAIO and I were finally back together.

    Then came the afternoon I passed a woman in a lobby, a bright beam of light flashed right before me; my name was being called out once again. As I carefully approached, the woman was in a guarded posture, not to allow me to get to close to her newly purchased… Sony VAIO P Series. I wanted to touch it, to hold it, to feel its keys, but the woman maintained distance hovering over her VAIO Netbook as the priceless jewel it was. All I could do was drool with envy.

    I returned home paying respects to “my” VAIO, then broke the news it was time for a little brother, at least one day; today food on the table still came first. It was back to dreams of VAIO’s dancing in my head, but this time the VAIO P Series Netbook. How I long to fulfill the need to carry a VAIO Netbook with me everywhere as my VAIO Notebook patiently waits home for my return; how much more efficient and productive I could be than only to read and type on a cell phone. Be still my heart, the day will come hopefully sooner than not.

    In the meantime tonight, I will sit back and relax, watch my favorites shows on my Sony Television, then lay my head atop the pillow setting my Sony Dream Machine Alarm Clock to only fall asleep with visions of VAIO’s dancing in my head, this time the P Series.

    Sony is Style, no matter how you put it!

  • Xyine

    While my encounter with Sony products are rather limited, the biggest impression Sony has made on me started roughly ten years ago when my sister and I received our first video game console – the first PlayStation.

    Coming from a family that wasn't very inclined with technology, I was exposed to casual electronics such as televisions and stereos. Other than that, I had no other knowledge of the range of products that Sony makes.

    Today, while the number of things Sony related that I own are still rather limited, I'd venture to say that my involvement with technology has greatly increased, even if it is limited to reading sites like Sonyinsider about recent products and programs. However, deep inside I am a true tech-junkie.

    The Playstation was truly the start of my fascination with technology. It's not hard to imagine that children would be attracted to video games, but from the moment I had that machine, I was hooked. Retrospectively, if I hadn't owned the Playstation, I think I might be much more inclined now to get out of the house. Regardless, I regret nothing.

    Perhaps it branched from my keener sense of hand-eye coordination, but the playstation opened up a world for me that I was easily captivated by, and can easily relate to. From a young age, I had always been fascinated by art of any form and to see the extent of that art incorporated into a screen of which I could interact with was possibly what really got me addicted.

    I remember spending hours of my time in front of the television with the controller nearly permanantly attached to my hand playing Crash Bandicoot or Final Fantasy. It allowed me to experienced various things from the comfort of my own home that stimulates my mind, which till this day is one of the biggest reasons that I am so attracted to gaming.

    Even after so many years, I still have my Playstation (still in working condition). Although I have since then replaced it with the PS2 and a PSP, I still spend hours playing games and I'm still as addicted as I have ever been. I would say that the Playstation was the dawning point of my love for games and technology in general.

    So all in all, courtesy of Sony, for making such a wonderful product.

  • headnoise

    My most memorable Sony product by far has to have been the old Star Wars Galaxies game. A long time ago in a gala…. in my mother's basement playing Star Wars at the age of 16, adventuring around places like Tattooine, Endor, and Naboo running around wondering how to become a Jedi. SWG was the first online game I ever played. From using my first voice chat program (Roger Wilco) to meeting people I am still friends with to this day, SWG made a huge impact on my life. For three years of my life I spent between 20 and 40 hours a week slaving away at the computer trying to both control the global economy, participate in player versus player combat, and mindlessly slaying Ewoks for my enjoyment. In conclusion, SOE's product Star Wars Galaxies made a huge impact on my life in both negative and positive ways.

  • Esconomics

    There are so many great Sony products and things we could discuss here but something still weighs heavily on my heart and mind that is still Sony related. The Sony product that has made the greatest impact on me would actually come from the Sony Music division of Sony and that would be the music of Michael Jackson. The “King Of Pop” may have had his legal troubles but no one can deny the sheer power of his music and the sway he held over billions of fans worldwide. Michael Jackson crossed many lines to bring his music and messages to the world and to this day many artists say it was him Jackson who influenced and inspired them to ecome musicians and singers. I can remember sitting in my living room as a child watching the “Thriller” video and I remember the chills I felt when he became a dancing zombie. I can also recall being on the school bus while someone else had a “Bad” tape in their boombox. I recall sitting in my room at night playing “Super Mario Bros. 3″ while listening to the “Dangerous” CD. There are so many great memories I have. I remember my first kiss as a child to the girl next door, Michelle, and it was with “I Just Can't Stop Loving You” playing in the background.

    Michael will be missed and his music will be cherished my many for years to come. May he rest in peace.

  • rpatel

    It's amazing how Sony helps a consumers lifestyle. From movies, to phones, to electronics, even to personal computers. Each and everyway Sony has always been a competent manuf. I have always depened on my Sony electronics, and nothing comes in between the product. I am looking forward to the future of which Sony will introduce and develop products for any consumer in any part of the world. Great job Sony!

  • micknkeef

    I was first introduced to the minidisc format in 1996. I had interest in it since it was introduced but did not really have an understanding of how it worked and neither did any of the retailers where I saw them being displayed. I finally saw a bundle on sale at a local shop which included a home deck and a portable. I was hooked on the first night. I had been making mix tapes since I was 10 so this was a giant leap in convenience and quality! Within the next few years I had expanded the playback to my car with the 6-disc changer and had upgraded the home deck to the MDS-JB920, 930, and finally the 940 (which I still own) as they became available.

    I was a walking advertisement for this format. I really didn't see the need to sell albums on MD which is what I think was causing the confusion for me. Once I figured out that it was a perfect replacement for the cassette, I was lecturing everyone I knew about it. I would play it back for them in my car, give recording demos at home, brag about the portable quality since the units were much smaller than a CD Walkman, and so on. I was only able to convince one of my friends to make the switch and, of course, he lost it in his divorce. I always thought that if it would have been advertised as a much superior replacement to the analog cassette, it might have done better. It really was a low-capacity mp3 player a decade before the iPod.

    From someone who has collected music since he started receiving an allowance, it was a great, but too short of a ride.

  • ender325

    My favorite Sony product would be…wait just one? A bit unfair because I have 3: my PS3, my Network Walkman and my old Vaio. If I am to choose one experience I'd choose the Walkman one because I already have 3 different models. Ever since I laid my eyes to the MP3 world I always thought about three things: the best sound quality, battery and build quality. Sony never let me down in any way. I always carry my MP3 with me along with my newest MDR-EX300 earphones from Sony too. As they say “every moment has its music”, Sony has been the company I have chosen throughout the years also because of their design choices. Sound quality is top notch, and the battery from my first unit (E505 from year 2005) is 50 hours! When most MP3s did not have built-in radio, Sony was always thinking one step ahead by including it on most of their MP3 players. I am sure they will continue this trend of innovation on design, battery, sound and build quality.

  • kennykester

    My favorite Sony product has been my Cybershot DSC-P150. It has traveled the world with me and even helped me get married! My wife and I took pictures with it, some of which she used at her consulate interview in Turkey. The final picture in the series that we submitted was one that we took just before I entered the airport terminal to return home, leaving us separated for 3 months. The interviewing agent, a rather burly fellow, asked her why she was so sad in the picture and she explained this to him. He said “Awww… you're approved” and a few short weeks later we left the same airport together.

    That camera has documented our lives and kept us in touch with both of our families on so many occasions, it feels like one of the best investments I've ever made. It works like new even several years after I bought it! I love that camera.

  • cherihaner

    Everybody wants a Sony!

    The brand has remained the “gold standard,” and a symbol of “the top of the heap”, ever since Americans first started their love affair with the company and its pocket-sized transistor radios.

    Let’s turn back the clock about 50 years. American radios at their smallest were roughly the size of a shoebox. Many were much larger. Clunky knob dials were used for tuning and volume, and a sliding indicator which moved from left to right across most of the length of the radio showed where you were in the AM band. Both FM and digital products were still a pretty much the wave of the future.

    And then Sony made their small transistor radios available to the American public. They were first offered in 1957. Their new transistor radio was the smallest in the world back then!

    America fell in love with the pocket-sized plastic radios which came with a single earphone, resembling an old-fashioned hearing aid, that fit snugly in one’s ear. The little radios were fairly solid and heavy for their size, and gave a quality performance. They were also well made, pretty tough and could endure considerable abuse.

    Whether playing while hanging by the carrying strap, being held in one’s hand, or reposing in a shirt pocket, with the earphone connected, the radios were a hot commodity. If you wanted a transistor radio back then, the only company making them was Sony.

    My dad gifted me with one of Sony’s TR-6 transistor radios. It was bright orange plastic, and came with a good quality black leather case, which exuded a rich leather smell. That little radio was the envy of all my friends and I took it just about everywhere with me. It went on trail rides, enhancing the creeks and tall trees with the hit parade melodies of the time. The Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison and others of the early 1960’s all sounded better coming from that radio and the Ventures “TelStar” took on a whole new meaning one night when the black night sky was carpeted with sparkling stars, and my best friend, the radio played ” Telstar,” which was a monster hit at the time. The song, out under the night sky, was a sort of “show and tell” at its best. At that time, the alternative would have been to carry a tube radio outside, and connect it to a very long extension cord!

    Back at the barn, the magical miniature Sony sat on a shelf, producing clear music for the horses and riders to enjoy. At home, I enjoyed listening to my favorite rock ‘n roll station spin the hits of the day, before drifting off to sleep.

    When I think of my early teen years, what stands out now is little orange radio in its black leather case, and the pattern of precise holes punched in the black leather case to allow the sound to come through.

    What became of the little radio, you may wonder.Sadly, it was my first lesson regarding how highly people regard Sony products, and, as a result, how quickly a Sony item can be “appropriated” if one does not take care! I carelessly left my little radio at the public boarding barn one evening and by the next day, it had disappeared. No one seemed to have an inkling of its whereabouts.

    A week or so later, my father, who had given me the radio, was disgruntled to see that a young man who frequently hung around the barn, had given my radio to his girlfriend! It must have garnered him prodigious “brownie points” with the girl, as she was clearly entranced by it.

    Sony products have changed a lot since then. Yet what has not changed through the progression of years, and increasingly technical offerings, is that everyone still wants a Sony!

  • gmsne

    My favorite Sony product came about from unexpected reasons. My first LCD TV was a KDL-32S2010. Although it wasn't the top-of-the-line model, it was a huge improvement from my previous 20″ WEGA CRT. I loved it.
    A couple years ago now, my grandmother was really needing a new TV, and wanted an LCD. I decided to give my KDL-32S2010 to her and to buy myself a newer model later.
    My grandfather has developed a form of dementia in his old age, and one day my grandmother called to tell me that he had pulled the TV off of the stand and it had landed face down on the tile floor (yes it's real, hard tile) in their living room. I was horrified.
    I knew that stand was waist-high off the ground, and I would have expected the results of that to be instant death for the TV, or at least major problems.
    But, she happily explained, it still worked good as new! In fact, when I went to visit her, I didn't even see any scratches.
    A month later she called and said he had done it again! And still there was absolutely nothing wrong with the TV.
    She then said she was so impressed with the Sony quality she would like to do a commercial for them.
    So, my old Sony BRAVIA that I gave to my grandmother has turned out to be the most impressive product to me. Apparently it's invincible. …and yes we now have the TV in a more secure location.

  • juanestebancarron

    Again, too bad is usa only. however I want to mention that the vaio P is a very poor performance computer. I bought one a month ago, and just stop my efforts to use it as is extremely low and you can do almost nothing with it. I read some forums about it before buying it, but I do believe that the people who wrote positive comments, do little work with computer.
    Sorry SONY people, but you must discontinue the vaio P or to upgrade it immediately, Is a dead product.
    I do not know what I'm going to do with it. suggestions?

  • juanestebancarron

    I also agree with the fact that is not fair that is for usa only. However, I want to mention that the sony vaio P, is poorest performance computer I ever have. I bought mine a month ago, and frankly speaking, I just suspended my efforts of working with it. It's impossible.
    I do not know what to do with it.
    suggestions?

  • bmc012

    The Rolly is my new favorite thing. I had wanted one since they were announced. I had been telling my girlfriend how cool they were, she is like ok if you say so. My birthday was in May, also that month I read that they were going to be disconntinued. I knew if I didn't get one now I wouldn't be able to. We found out they were going for $99 at Sonystyle stores. They closest one that I knew of was five hours away. My girlfriend was skeptical, but knows I am a Sony fan, everything we have is Sony. She says “Its your b-day, road trip. Lets go!” We work 3rd shift at a hospital. We left work the next morning and drove, talked, listened to great music, visited every place we could on the way there. We were so tired we were slap-happy, it was so much fun, I think it brought us closer together. We finally get it home, put some music on it. She loves it! We now have two, a black and a white one. When our friends come over they think they are the coolest things, its a blast. They've never seen anything like it. And of course we have to tell the story about the road trip just to get it and how much fun we had. Now if I can only convince her about that Aibo on ebay! My family has always bought Sony, and I know over the years its brought our family and friends closer together. Isn't that what good entertainment electronics supposed to do? I think so, and Sony does it better than the rest. If its fun and reliable – It's a Sony!

  • cubical

    That is easy.

    my fav It is sony's Trinitron TV tubes/ PC monitors.

    Ever since 1991 they have been the only TV's I would buy. even now I got a sony xbr960 wega Tube HDTV it is not thin and it is 200 pounds but the picture is worth the hassle of it's size. it still blows any of there LCD/plasma tvs away even sony's XBR lcd don't look as good.

    Trinitron for CRT monitors was a revolutionaryproduct and it made my PC/console games look oh so good, my SNES looked amazing on my first trintiron set with S-video back in 1991..and served me well when i bought sony's first console playsation.

    There CRT pc monitors was all I used until they got hard to find =/ now sony don't even make PC lcd monitors and I am sad.

  • JusMe9394

    Of all the Sony products I have ever owned, I must say that the Sony Walkman was my favorite. The Walkman changed my life completely. Don't get me wrong I enjoy playing video games on my Sony PSP and Playstation, but the Walkman was the ULTIMATE original product. Before my parents purchased my Walkman, the music often stopped the moment I left my bedroom. I can still hear my mom saying “Take off those headphones at the dinner table.” I remember how cool we were with those massive headphones and that garage door sized AM/FM cassette player clipped to our favorite pair of Calvin Klein or Gloria Vanderbilt jeans. Those were the days. Sony was innovative then and even more so now that I'm a mom yelling “Take off those headphones at the dinner table” when my kids try to bring their PSPs to the dinner table. :-)

  • oysternomad

    I am a proud owner of several Sony products, but when I decided to leave my job and my home and travel the world almost 2 years ago with nothing but a small backpack, I chose its contents carefully and packed my beloved Sony Vaio VGN-SZ450N laptop. At the time, the laptop was one of the lightest and slimmest on the market. I had no idea of how long I would travel with it, and fretted it would get damaged or malfunction on the way. But alas, it persisted and became absolutely instrumental in a trip that spanned 3 continents and, which two years later, is still going strong. My laptop survived a multitude of airports and boats, rides in third-class Indian rail cars and on the roofs of buses in Nepal, a desert trek on a camel in the deserts of Rajastan and month-long foot treks into the Himalayas. It allowed me to keep in touch with family and friends, maintain journals, store and process photographs on the go, get a glimpse of life back in home, read up on the news and play with maps and star constellations on the go. And all of that, is just a fractional enumeration of all the things I was able to do on my Sony laptop without worry or hassle or even a single tune-up. Maybe it was luck, or maybe (and probably more likely) the ingenuity of a lot of people at Sony. So thanks! As I continue my travels and upgrade my gear towards a slimmer backpack, it would be truly wonderful to try out the new Vaio. Thanks for reading, and really, best of luck to the contestants.

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  • mrnix

    It started for me with the MiniDisc then, Playstation 2 , PSP also 2 digital camera but, the MiniDisc get me going. Basically, it did really good job for me sorry to see it gone for US Market. :-(

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