Fraunhofer IIS: Surround Sound with Video Streaming on Android

[CeBIT 2013] I saw a great number of technology demos at CeBIT, and the Fraunhofer booth is always a good place to find interesting demos that provide a good insight of what is really going on inside our most beloved gadgets.

At CeBIT this year, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuit (IIS) was showcasing multichannel audio streamed  through an Android smartphone and displayed on a large screen TV connected to the phone via a HDMI cable. The demo showed video and audio streaming at various bit-rates (see the numbers at the bottom of the TV display in the video). The result was pretty amazing, the sound was really immersive.

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Sony announces the NW-F800 Series, its latest Android based Walkman

Behold Sony’s latest high-end Walkman, the NW-F800 Series! Available in three different flavors and with internal memory ranging from 16 up to 64GB, the NW-F800 is Sony’s answer to Apple’s iPod! Indeed the NW-F800 will come by default with Android 4.0, a Tegra 2 1GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM, WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0 and a nice little 3.5″ WVGA screen.
The NW-F800 will be of course compatible with Google Play and will play, no pun intended, just fine with most applications …