The new Sony Home Share stores your digital video, pictures, music and other data on a 1 terabyte (2 x 500GB) drive array. Transferring data from digital cameras, camcorders and phones can be done via the multi-card reader, USB ports or, using the Remote Home Access function, via your home network or remotely across the internet. “The new Sony Home Share offers our customers a simple proposition,” said Dipesh Sanghrajka, Product Manager, Sony VAIO UK. “Put all your pictures, music, video and files in one place and reach them from anywhere. The sheer amount of personal content many of us have now makes the Sony Home Share the logical next step in the digital home.” The Sony Home Share is available now for £499.

Sony UK Press Release

The Sony Home Share offers customers an easy, versatile and complete solution to the ever-growing problem of storage – and access. It provides a huge central repository where all your digital video, pictures, music and other data can be kept on a 1 terabyte (2 x 500GB) drive array.

Transferring data from digital cameras, camcorders and phones is rapidly accomplished via the Home Share’s Multi-Card Reader1 slot or USB ports. Just slip in the card or make the USB connection and press the special One Touch Copy button, and the rest is automatic.

Once the Sony Home Share is connected to your home network you can back up data from other PCs or notebooks on the network using the Remote Home Access function to keep everything correctly up to date. Better still, you can access the Sony Home Share remotely via the internet, so you can back up your notebook from a Wi-Fi hotspot in a cafe if you want.

This Remote Home Access technology works both ways, allowing the Sony Home Share to send information across the internet as well as receive it. This means that if you are away, you can go online and get files or pictures from the Sony Home Share just as if it were in the next room. Likewise, sharing pictures with friends has never been easier. All they need is for you to email them a URL and (optionally) a security code, and they can see pictures and even slideshows with music on their own PC. This is done using a web-based application called “VAIO Picture Lab” which is hosted on the Home Share – friends and family don’t need any special software, just an internet connection and a web browser.

Remote Home Access is also the ideal way to share pictures with relatives if they have The Intelligent Photo Frame. So long as it is connected to the internet via their own home network, you can send pictures and even music to a remote Intelligent Photo Frame as easily as if it were in your house.

In order to ensure complete ease of use, the SONY Home Share is DLNA™ Certified (Digital Living Network Alliance), which means it will connect to other DLNA Certified devices on a home network seamlessly and automatically, without any need for configuration. This means it can ‘see’ your PLAYSTATION®3 and VAIO PCs as soon as you attach it to your home network, greatly simplifying installation.

With its compact footprint, unique round design, attractive white finish and carefully concealed cabling at the rear, the Sony Home Share is also very decor-friendly. You can locate it anywhere, including the living room, and thanks to its exceptionally quiet double fan cooling system, you will hardly know it’s there.

Specifications

Model
VGF-HS1E

Hard drive
1TB (500GB x 2)

Ports
3 x USB (1 front, 2 rear)

Network port
Fast Ethernet (RJ-45) 10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T

Multi Card Reader
Memory Stick™, Memory Stick™ Duo, Memory Stick™ PRO, Memory Stick™ PRO Duo, SD card™, SDHC card, Compact Flash (Type II)

Supported
DLNA guideline devices (DLNA HNv1)

Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional with Service Pack 2, Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2, Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic, Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Home Premium, Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business and Microsoft® Windows Vista® Ultimate

DLNA supported file formats
Video: AVCHD, MPEG2, HDV(MPEG2-TS)

Picture: JPEG, BMP, PNG

Music: WAV, MP3, ATRAC, ATRAC Advanced Lossless, AAC, WMA

Web server
supported file format : JPEG

Supported WEB Browser : Internet Explorer 6.0/7.0,  Firefox® 2.0

Dimensions
Height 71mm, Width 270mm, Depth 270mm

Weight
3.1kg

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