[Sony Planning To Bring PSN Name Change Feature Soon
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SAN DIEGO, April 17, 2024 / PRNewswire/ - Sony Electronics Inc. today announced its 2024 BRAVIA TV lineup and the redefining of BRAVIA as a brand that provides the ultimate home cinema experience. As part of the new BRAVIA line-up, Sony will release four new TV models, with BRAVIA 9 as the flagship capable of extraordinary peak brightness, deep blacks, and expanded contrast. The new lineup also includes the BRAVIA 9 Flagship Mini LED, BRAVIA 8 OLED, BRAVIA 7 Mini LED, and BRAVIA 3 LED with select models being available for pre-order now in the U.S. and available soon in Canada. In addition, Sony announced today the BRAVIA Theater home audio product lineup made for seamless integration to experience the full audiovisual richness of any content at home.
BRAVIA is designed to enhance the authenticity of cinematic content, delivering impressive picture and sound at home as the filmmakers intended. By unifying TVs, soundbars, and other home audio technologies under the single brand, BRAVIA, Sony aims for customers to have a simplified home theater setup to enjoy the ultimate cinematic experience of immersive picture and sound. The matching features and design of BRAVIA TVs and BRAVIA Theater home audio products make it easier for consumers to choose their ideal combination of products to complete their home theater.
BRAVIA TVs are equipped with Studio Calibrated Pictures modes aimed to reproduce the image quality intended by filmmakers on your TV at home. In addition to the existing Netflix Adaptive Calibrated Mode and SONY PICTURES CORE Calibrated Mode (formerly BRAVIA CORE),3, 4 Prime Video Calibrated Mode is a new mode designed to provide customers with even more ways to experience premium entertainment through the lens of the creator. With Prime Video Calibrated Mode, customers can enjoy optimum picture quality that is automatically calibrated across movies, series, and for the first time, live sports. 3, 5
In cinemas, speakers are usually located behind the screen, which has numerous small holes for sound to pass through allowing the dialogue you hear to sound like it is coming from the correct position of the image projected on screen. Select BRAVIA TVs and BRAVIA Theater products feature Acoustic Center Sync,8 which mimics the cinema experience by fusing the sound of the TV's speakers and the soundbar seamlessly, elevating the audio and dialogue to precisely match the action on screen.
Studio calibrated picture: Get picture quality just as the creators intended with studio calibrated picture modes specially designed for Netflix, Prime Video, and SONY PICTURES CORE (formerly BRAVIA CORE).3, 4, 5
Sony has set forth an environmental plan called Road to Zero, which aims to achieve zero environmental impact through its business activities and product life cycles by 2050. To contribute to this vision, Sony will pursue innovations for its BRAVIA products that provide the best viewing experience with high picture and sound quality and a premium design all the while contributing to reducing its environmental impact.
BRAVIA 9 and BRAVIA 7 use Sony's proprietary Mini LED processing technology to automatically optimize each scene to achieve both high brightness and low-power consumption. In addition, the newly evolved Eco Dashboard allows users to easily set and manage various energy saving settings of BRAVIA TVs all at once. Users can check the amount of power used and tips for saving energy18.
To reduce environmental impact, Sony is working on multiple aspects of the product life cycle, such as reduction of virgin plastic use, improvement of transportation efficiency, and reviewing energy consumption during use.
Sony aims to contribute to an inclusive society through its business by increasing accessibility to enable those with diverse needs to utilize its products. BRAVIA develops products with accessibility in mind so that all customers can enjoy the movie experience.
The Talkback screen reader function allows users to check program listings and set up your TV without looking at the screen. It also can enlarge text and display it on the screen. Additionally, the tactile dots on the HDMI and S-Center terminals of BRAVIA TV match those found on the BRAVIA Theater products to simplify the process of locating and connecting ports for a smooth setup experience.
Color inversion makes it possible to invert the brightness of colors so that bright areas become dark, and dark areas become bright. This feature can be turned on or off as needed. If the text is easier to read with a dark or bright background color, users can use color inversion to change the background color.
Voice commands can be used to operate the BRAVIA TV, such as turning the power on/off and adjusting the volume. BRAVIA TVs are also equipped with shortcut commands that allow users to quickly and easily turn on/off accessibility features, allowing both those who require them and those who do not to use the same TV set without stress.
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PlayStation Network users will be able to alter their names in the United States later today, with European users getting the update tomorrow on April 11. The ID change feature, originally announced via the PlayStation Blog, will be free for the first change and can be accessed via web browser. Any changes beyond that will be $9.99 apiece, and $3.99 for PlayStation Plus members. This brings it more in line with Xbox Live's current gamertag change policy.
If you change your ID and decide you don't like the new one anymore, you can continue to change it as many times as you like or even revert back to the original ID before all the changes. Your ID will always be an option to you, and it will never be taken away, so there's no need to worry about PSN ID recycling with others taking over your xXDarkSynXx420 handle if you decide you want to go back to that persona at some point.
In fact, Sony notes that games published before April 1, 2018 may not be compatible with new online IDs. If you play one of these games, you might have to revert to your old username and you may even lose access to DLC, which is a huge bummer. To help figure out which games you can use with the feature, Sony put together a list of games that are compatible, those that have several issues, and those with very serious issues. Games like Warframe and Bloodborne feature "critical" issues, which may be a dealbreaker for you. Make sure you consult this list before making any ID changes.
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