Sony Acknowledges Existence of MP3 Format

Sony has a long history of ignoring the MP3 format in favor of its home-grown DRM technology, ATRAC. Even in the face of overwhelming support for MP3 music and virtually no market desire for the ATRAC format, Sony's newest harddrive-based audio players did not natively support MP3. Rather, users we forced to convert their MP3 originals into Sony's ATRAC format, compromising sound quality.

A dose of reality has, apparently, been injected into Sony as they have announced that players will (eventually) natively support the MP3 standard.

More bits at Engadget, MacRumors, CNet and GMSV.

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