Sony cracked open the bubble wrap today to give us a sneak peek of two new Walkman players that not only support audio – but for
the first time in the United States – will also playback video.

The new NWZ-A810 and NWZ-S610 series of Walkman digital music
players will support an open platform, providing more choices
for downloading and managing music and video collections online. The devices feature a standard user interface that makes it easy
to enjoy songs, videos, or pictures.

The QVGA (320×240) LCD screen also helps to ensure crystal-clear image quality that displays video at 30 frames per second. The battery allows up to eight hours of video playback for the NWZ-A810 series and nine-and-a-half hours for the NWZ-S610
series. The battery also provides up to 33 hours of music playback
for both series.

The players both support security-enhanced Windows Media Audio
(WMA), as well as non-secure AAC and MP3 music formats, plus
JPEG files for photos, in addition to the AVC (H.264/AVC) Baseline
Profile and MPEG-4 video codecs.

Users can download movie trailers, music videos, podcasts
and video clips from the Internet and use readily-available
shareware to convert the clips for use with the Walkman video
players. Sony Pictures Entertainment has also provided video
content for both of the new players, which is hosted at www.sonystyle.com/walkman

These players look absolutely amazing, and feature up to an 8GB hard drive in each series. For more specs and pricing, check out the full press release.

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