Discussions centered on music devices, but no deals yet

Updated: 1:49 p.m. ET June 23, 2005NEW YORK - Sony Electronics, a unit of Sony Corp. said on Thursday that it has talked with XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. about music devices, though no satellite radio deals are in place.

“We have been in talks with them for more than a year,” Stan Glasgow, president of Sony Electronics’ U.S. consumer sales, said at a press briefing. “Anything is possible.”

The company also said it hopes to beef up its Connect online music service by adding features such as video, as it fights to compete with Apple Computer’s dominate iPod player and iTunes music service.