Sony launches its bar dedicated to the PlayStation 3

Sony said Tuesday through his video game division (Sony Computer Entertainment) a first bar of his intended in this instance to its home console, which is incidentally the Blu-ray is most widespread. The manufacturer of consumer electronics Nippon marketed its many bars, but they were so far separated furniture where they were camouflaged.

The Surround Sound System for PlayStation 3 "meanwhile, consists of a bar and a subwoofer, as its name promises to restore indicates an immersive sound, delivering the feel of a multichannel audio from including rear. The system is built for that purpose on the process of psycho-acoustics, based on calculations of latencies.

His membership in the PlayStation family boil down to aesthetics and mode "dialogue", to highlight the dialogue and narrative video games. A fashion "night", rather for the cinema, allows for him to adapt the soundtrack of a film with a low volume listening.

The preamplifier has an optical digital input and analog input. It decodes Dolby Digital and DTS, but no format called "HD" introduced with the Blu-ray that require HDMI. It will therefore be content with standard formats encapsulated in them. The amplifier provides 10 W at each of the two speakers 50 x 90 mm of the bar, and 15 W at each of the two speakers 65 mm diameter subwoofer. He finally uses its own remote control to credit card format, and unfortunately offers no way to use Bluetooth remote for the PS3.

The Sony Surround Sound System for PlayStation 3 will be sold this fall at retail price of 200 euros.