Sony brings iPlayer to all television sets

Sony has been showing off its newest products for 2011 at the Gadget Show Live 2011 in Birmingham.

One product on show is the N100, which is a media streaming device that can also show programmes from on-demand services such as the BBC iPlayer. To demonstrate the £100 player in action, Sony had it playing iPlayer programmes on the oldest TV it had, a 50-year-old CRT model which you can see in action in our picture above.

It was also demonstrating its 'premium' X50i iPod dock, a dual-lens 3D camcorder that records in the highest 1080p resolution, and another camcorder, pictured below, which has a built-in projector.

Sony also announced several new laptop and desktop models: the 24in LS21 all-in-one has 24 commands built into the touch-sensitive bezel of the screen, so it's not neccessary to use the keyboard. It will be available in June and has a Core i7 processor, 1TB hard disk, HDMI input and a TV tuner.

The F21ZE laptop is a 3D model, with one set of polarised active-shutter glasses in the box. It has a Blu-ray disc player, 8GB of memory and a 640GB hard disk. The SB1Z9E, with 500GB hard disk and Core i5 processor, is lighter than a Macbook, according to Sony, while the CA1S1E/G is available in several colours, with a glowing Vaio logo on the back panel.

Sony's new products are all on show on its stand at the Gadget Show Live 2011 in Birmingham. You'll find a complete list of our show reports on our Gadget Show Live 2011 news blog.

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