 Hi guys, I'm Vlad from The Verge here at CS 2016 and I'm looking at one of Sony's big new announcements. This is the PS HX500. It's coming in the spring to the United States. We don't know about global availability but it might be available. We don't know about its price so it's still kind of a mystery but we're looking at a mockup of it. And in terms of design it is extremely bare bones. It's a very modern take with something very retro. This isn't the first turntable that is making its debut here at CES. Technics announced a return of one of its classics and now Sony is doing its own thing and I was curious to find out why people would want this. One of the options is obviously you have analog outputs you can just use it as a straight turntable but there's also this label here, Hi-Res Audio, which Sony is really pushing. And Sony is trying to do kind of a hybrid thing where it's doing the analog classic vinyl quality but also wants to bring that into the modern world, the modern age which is with its high powered warpments, the Hi-Res playing warpments. And what Sony is doing is it's going to have a USB output and it has an application for PC and Mac where you can get all your vinyls and you can make backup files, you can make them in WAV files or DSD up to 6 MHz and then you can convert that down to MP3s if you want to like simplify things. But for Sony that's not what you want to do. You want to send them into DSD files and get them onto your high quality warpment and then preserve that vinyl quality with Hi-Res Audio. That's what Sony is pitching and selling to us. We would just love to know a price and when this thing is actually going to be on sale. So far all we know is it will be available in the spring. So that's Sony's new turntable here at CES 2016. For more videos from the show, whether it be Sony or all the other companies, tune into TheVerge.com or our YouTube channel.
 Hi guys, I'm Vlad from The Verge here at CS 2016 and I'm looking at one of Sony's big
 new announcements.
 This is the PS HX500.
 It's coming in the spring to the United States.
 We don't know about global availability but it might be available.
 We don't know about its price so it's still kind of a mystery but we're looking at a mockup
 of it.
 And in terms of design it is extremely bare bones.
 It's a very modern take with something very retro.
 This isn't the first turntable that is making its debut here at CES.
 Technics announced a return of one of its classics and now Sony is doing its own thing
 and I was curious to find out why people would want this.
 One of the options is obviously you have analog outputs you can just use it as a straight
 turntable but there's also this label here, Hi-Res Audio, which Sony is really pushing.
 And Sony is trying to do kind of a hybrid thing where it's doing the analog classic
 vinyl quality but also wants to bring that into the modern world, the modern age which
 is with its high powered warpments, the Hi-Res playing warpments.
 And what Sony is doing is it's going to have a USB output and it has an application for
 PC and Mac where you can get all your vinyls and you can make backup files, you can make
 them in WAV files or DSD up to 6 MHz and then you can convert that down to MP3s if you want
 to like simplify things.
 But for Sony that's not what you want to do.
 You want to send them into DSD files and get them onto your high quality warpment and then
 preserve that vinyl quality with Hi-Res Audio.
 That's what Sony is pitching and selling to us.
 We would just love to know a price and when this thing is actually going to be on sale.
 So far all we know is it will be available in the spring.
 So that's Sony's new turntable here at CES 2016.
 For more videos from the show, whether it be Sony or all the other companies, tune into
 TheVerge.com or our YouTube channel.